Central Park, NYC Thursday, May 11, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob., on bird walks starting at the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am & 6pm.
Highlights: A slow day, but the group managed to find 15 species of Wood Warblers incl. Tennessee, Hooded, Worm-eating, and Wilson's Warblers. Mallard - residents Mourning Dove - residents Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Summer House Chimney Swift - 8 Double-crested Cormorant - 4 turtle Pond & flyovers Great Egret - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - residents Blue-headed Vireo - 3 (the Point, s. side Turtle Pond, Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock) Warbling Vireo - 4 (pair Maintenance Field, singles Warbler Rock & Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock) Red-eyed Vireo - 2 (Warbler Rock & Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock) Blue Jay - residents Barn Swallow - flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - Gill Overlook Tufted Titmouse - Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock White-breasted Nuthatch - Gill Overlook House Wren - Warbler Rock Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Warbler Rock & south side Turtle Pond) Hermit Thrush - Summer House Wood Thrush - Ramble American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents House Finch - 3 in cypress at Turtle Pond duck American Goldfinch - 2 (female south side Turtle Pond, male Swampy Pin Oak/Summer House Meadow) Ovenbird - 5 Worm-eating Warbler - south side Turtle Pond (Melissa & Michael) Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 8 (4 males, 4 females) Tennessee Warbler - Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Common Yellowthroat - 6 (4 males, 2 females) Hooded Warbler - female Warbler rock (before 9am walk) American Redstart - 12 (4 males, 5 females, 3 first-spring males) Northern Parula - 12 Yellow Warbler - 6 (4 males, 2 females) Blackpoll Warbler - male Delacorte Theater Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6 (3 males, 3 females) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Prairie Warbler - 2 males (Upper Lobe, south side Turtle Pond) Wilson's Warbler - 2 males south side Turtle Pond Eastern Towhee - male singing persistently south side Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow Scarlet Tanager - male Warbler Rock Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (male south side Turtle Pond, female Ramble) [the Turtle Pond male also should have been in yesterday's list] Brown-headed Cowbird - male Summer House Orchard Oriole - 2 females Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Baltimore Oriole - 14 50/50 male/female ratio Deb Allen -- 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/ --
