Central Park NYC Monday, May 8, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob., on bird walk starting from Strawberry Fields at 8am and 9am.
Highlights: A slow day, but 15 species of Wood Warblers, including a late Palm Warbler, as well as Rose-breasted Grosbeaks & Indigo Buntings. Canada Goose Mallard Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - 15 to 20 over Summit Rock Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - Upper Lobe & Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - pair bringing nesting material to San Remo Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird - Shakespeare Garden (Mayra Cruz) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Summit Rock) Warbling Vireo - 5 (including a low & close bird at the Point) Blue Jay Tree Swallow - 2 flyovers Barn Swallow - Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - heard Red-breasted Nuthatch - Strawberry Fields White-breasted Nuthatch - Strawberry Fields House Wren - 3 (pair Strawberry Fields, 1 Shakespeare Garden) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - male - Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Ruby-crowned Kinglet - south side Turtle Pond Wood Thrush - several singing in Ramble & Strawberry Fields American Robin - many Gray Catbird - many House Finch - a few American Goldfinch - female Maintenance Field Ovenbird - heard Worm-eating Warbler - west of and at Captain's Bench Northern Waterthrush - 3 (David Barrett) Black-and-white Warbler - 10 - males & females (60/40) Common Yellowthroat - 5 (4 males, 1 female) American Redstart - 5 (males and first-spring males) Northern Parula - several Magnolia Warbler - several males Yellow Warbler - 3 males (Mayra & Noa Cruz) Chestnut-sided Warbler - west of Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Blackpoll Warbler - 2 males (Strawberry Fields and Castle) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 males Palm Warbler - "Yellow" between Castle & Delacorte Theater (late, but not a record date) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20 Prairie Warbler - 2 south Maint. Field & south side Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell) Eastern Towhee - male & female south side Maintenance Field, female elsewhere Chipping Sparrow - 2 Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 males Strawberry Fields Indigo Bunting - 3 - female Maintenance Field, male & female Strawberry Fields (David Barrett) Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - heard Baltimore Oriole - many (males & young males) Deb Allen For bird walk schedule see www.birdingbob.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
