Central Park NYC Saturday, May 20, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, and many others
Highlights:Summer Tanager, Black-and Yellow-billed Cuckoos, & 19 species of Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - pair Turtle Pond, also 13 adults on the Reservoir including a pair with 3 goslings Gadwall - pair SW Reservoir Mallard - Turtle Pond, Lake, Reservoir Mourning Dove - residents Yellow-billed Cuckoo - calling at Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench (Bob, early a.m.) Black-billed Cuckoo - 2 (Humming Tombstone (Deb) flew to join another nearer Tupelo Field) Chimney Swift - 6 to 10 Herring Gull - 8 Reservoir (Deb early) & flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 12 & flyovers Great Egret - Turtle Pond & Reservoir Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (Lake and Turtle Pond) Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - pair at Gill Overlook Eastern Wood-Pewee - seen at Gill Overlook & Mugger's Woods (perhaps the same bird) Willow Flycatcher - vocal bird at King of Poland Great Crested Flycatcher - several - seen at Mugger's Woods and Maintenance Field Eastern Kingbird - Shakespeare Garden, Hernshead, NE Reservoir bird with nesting material Yellow-throated Vireo - Turtle Pond Dock Warbling Vireo - 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 15 to 20 Blue Jay - nest near the Oven (Andrea Hessel) Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell) Barn Swallow - 8 together over Great Lawn, 4 at north end Reservoir Tufted Titmouse - near Boathouse Cafe at 7:30am (Bob) White-breasted Nuthatch - Ramble Ruby-crowned Kinglet - King of Poland - late in season Veery - Ramble Gray-cheeked Thrush - 3 or 4 Swainson's Thrush - west of Weather Station Circle American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents House Finch - female King of Poland American Goldfinch - male Turtle Pond Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 adult male, 5 females Common Yellowthroat - 8 (2 males, 6 females) Hooded Warbler - male King of Poland American Redstart - 17 (7 first-spring males, 10 females - no adult males) Cape May Warbler - Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench (David Barrett) Northern Parula - 16 or 17 (2 males, 14-15 females) Magnolia Warbler - 25 to 30 Bay-breasted Warbler - 6 (3 males, 3 females) Blackburnian Warbler - adult male just north of Delacorte Theater Yellow Warbler- 6 (2 males, 4 females) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (male Humming Tombstone, female Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench) Blackpoll Warbler - 30 (5 males, 25 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 females Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 females (Shakespeare Garden & Weather Station Circle) Canada Warbler - 3 males including a very cooperative bird at the Point Wilson's Warbler - 2 males (Upper Lobe, Turtle Pond) Song Sparrow - singing north end of Reservoir (Deb - early) White-throated Sparrow - 3 Summer Tanager - female Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock (David Barrett), some of us also saw a young male there Scarlet Tanager - tulliptree north of path from boathouse to Evodia Field Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - male Turtle Pond Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - flyover Baltimore Oriole - 10 (4 females, 6 males) 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/ --
