Central Park NYC Sunday Aug. 14, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Boathouse Cafe at 9am
Definitely fewer birds today and less diversity than on Saturday - 5 species of Wood Warblers, Scarlet Tanager & Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2) the highlights. Canada Goose Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Maintenance Field (one reported by J. Spindel earlier) Chimney Swift Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond & flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - Lake south of Upper Lobe Red-bellied Woodpecker - Azalea Pond Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 2 at Oven Eastern Kingbird - Azalea Pond Warbling Vireo - 7 Red-eyed Vireo - Azalea Pond & Tupelo Field Blue Jay Barn Swallow - flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Azalea Pond Tufted Titmouse - heard White-breasted Nuthatch - heard House Wren - Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 2 Azalea Pond Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Tupelo Field & Azalea Pond American Robin Gray Catbird - many Northern Mockingbird - 2 Azalea Pond Cedar Waxwing - heard House Finch - 5 Tupelo Field Northern Waterthrush - 2 Upper Lobe Blue-winged Warbler - Tupelo Field, 2 Upper Lobe, Black-and-white Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 15 Yellow Warbler - 1 Tupelo field, 2 Shakespeare Garden Scarlet Tanager - Upper Lobe (before walk) Northern Cardinal Common Grackle Baltimore Oriole - 3 to 5 Andrew Rubenfeld et al reported a Mourning Warbler on the slope near the Boathouse. After the walk Sandra Critelli reported a Great Crested Flycatcher at the Gill near the waterfall, as well as Cedar Waxwing, Tufted Titmouse, and 2 waterthrushes at Laupot Bridge (perhaps the birds we saw at the Oak Bridge at the Upper Lobe). Thanks to all the sharp-eyed birders on today's walk, Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
