Central Park NYC - Ramble & Reservoir Sunday, June 4, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, and many other observers
Highlights: Horned Grebe, male Orchard Oriole, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (2), and 10 Wood Warbler Species including a female Mourning Warbler. Canada Goose - pair with 3 goslings on the Lake (Sandra Critelli) Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Gadwall - 3 (pair Turtle Pond, male Reservoir) Mallard - Turtle Pond, Reservoir, Lake Horned Grebe - in breeding plumage NW Reservoir record late spring date for Central Park (Deb) Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - a few over the Ramble & Reservoir Herring Gull - a few flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Reservoir & flyovers Great Blue Heron - flyover Oak Bridge Great Egret - Turtle Pond & flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 (Turtle Pond, The Pond (Sandra Critelli - early), flyover Oven (Karen Evans)) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - pair mating at Gill Overlook Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Oak Bridge) Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 Eastern Kingbird - 2 pairs - Turtle Pond & Warbler Rock Warbling Vireo - 9 (6 in Ramble, 3 Reservoir) Red-eyed Vireo - 1 (fewer of these than Warbling Vireos today) Blue Jay - residents Barn Swallow - at least 5 (flyover Humming Tombstone, at least 4 north Reservoir including a very visible nest on a building) Tufted Titmouse - heard in Ramble White-breasted Nuthatch - Gill Overlook American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents Cedar Waxwing - 10 (look for these in Shadbush/Serviceberry) House Finch - 15 to 20 (adults with juveniles) Northern Waterthrush - singing at Upper Lobe (Vicki Seabrook) Black-and-white Warbler - female Upper Lobe Mourning Warbler - female Shakespeare Garden (Bob - early) Common Yellowthroat - 2 (female south side of Turtle Pond, male singing Shakespeare Garden) American Redstart - 6 (no adult males today) Northern Parula - female Oven Magnolia Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - female in flowering Tupelo at Warbler Rock Canada Warbler - male Turtle Pond Dock Wilson's Warbler - female south side Turtle Pond (Bob - early) Song Sparrow - heard north end Reservoir White-throated Sparrow - 2 on the Point Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - 3 males Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - pair Tupelo Field/Humming Tombstone Orchard Oriole - first-spring male singing and staying in the area of the Turtle Pond Dock Baltimore Oriole - 4 (2 males Turtle Pond, pair with active nest north Maintenance Field) Drew Stadlin reported a heard Ovenbird and Eastern Wood-Pewee at the north end of Central Park this afternoon. David Barrett found a Tennessee Warbler outside Central Park at 160 West 97th Street - tweeted at 9:00am. Note: the first of the Fifth Avenue Red-tailed Hawks to fledge did so on June 1st as reported on twitter by Jean Shum. Here's a link to a photo of the Horned Grebe taken at 8:12am: https://www.photo.net/photo/18394648 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/ --
