Central Park NYC - North End Friday Sept. 16, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on a bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Highlights: 2 White-eyed Vireos, 13 species of Wood Warblers including 4 Prairie Warblers , 2 Common Ravens, Peregrine Falcon & Ospreys. Gadwall - 6 Meer near island (3 engaged in courtship displays), at least 7 Reservoir (Deb before walk) Mallard - not many Meer, etc. Northern Shoveler - 4 Meer Ruddy Duck - 2 males SE Reservoir (Deb before walk) Mourning Dove - various locations Chimney Swift - not many Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Meer, Conservatory Garden (Tom Ahlf before walk) Ring-billed Gull - outnumbering Herring & Great Black-backed Gulls Reservoir (Deb before walk), also flyovers Herring Gull - at least 40 Reservoir (Deb before walk) Great Black-backed Gull - around 40 Reservoir (Deb before walk) Double-crested Cormorant - at least 25 Reservoir (Deb before walk) Snowy Egret - 5 flyovers 6:15am (Bob before walk) Green Heron - west side of the Pool Black-crowned Night-Heron - hatch-year Meer Island Osprey - 3 flyovers (over LaskerPool, 2 over west side of Wildflower Meadow - Will Papp) Accipiter species - distant north of the Meer Red-tailed Hawk - Blockhouse Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker - knoll south of Nutter's Battery Northern Flicker - Wildflower Meadow, Blockhouse Peregrine Falcon - flyover north of the park seen from the Meer Eastern Wood-Pewee - Green Bench (Bob before walk) White-eyed Vireo - 2 (west side of the Pool - Peter Haskel & west Blowdown) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 (Nutter's Battery, Lasker Rink/Pool, Blockhouse) Blue Jay - several locations American Crow - heard Meer Common Raven - 2 seen soaring together north of the Meer (same time as Peregrine Falcon) Tufted Titmouse - Blockhouse White-breasted Nuthatch - Loch (Bob before walk) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - path from Great Hill toward Blockhouse American Robin Gray Catbird - several locations Northern Mockingbird - Meer, Conservatory Garden, etc. Cedar Waxwing - 10 Green Bench (Bob before walk) House Finch - Blockhouse, etc. Ovenbird - north side of Loch (Bob before walk) Northern Waterthrush - Pool (Jesse Kolar) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 (female Wildflower Meadow, 2 Blockhouse (Jesse Kolar)) Common Yellowthroat - 8 (Bob before walk) American Redstart - at least 14 (lost count) Northern Parula - 5 (1 knoll south of Nutter's Battery, 2 Nutter's Battery, 1 west Blowdown, 1 Blockhouse) Magnolia Warbler - north side of Loch (bob before walk) Yellow Warbler - Nutter's Battery, Wildflower Meadow (Deb before walk) Chestnut-sided Warbler - nutter's Battery (Bob Ruvolo) Black-throated Blue Warbler - Loch Palm Warbler - western subspecies Nutter's Battery Pine Warbler - Nutter's Battery Prairie Warbler - 4 (Nutter's Battery (Adrian), west side Wildflower Meadow, west Blowdown, Blockhouse (Jesse Kolar) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Blockhouse Jesse Kolar reported a Canada Warbler at the north end. Felipe Pimentel saw the Philadelphia Vireo, reported earlier by Anders Peltomaa, at the Maintenance Field at around 1pm. 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/ --