Central Park, NYC - North End Sunday, June 11, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, and many other observers
Highlights: Lingering Warblers (Pine, Yellow & Common Yellowthroat), Indigo Buntings, Chipping Sparrow, Green Heron, Red-winged Blackbird attacking a Great Egret just before the egret caught a big sunfish, active Baltimore Oriole nest. Canada Goose - 30+ (incl. 3 goslings) Reservoir & Harlem Meer Gadwall - male Reservoir Mallard - 25+ Reservoir & North End Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - 4 with 2 birds getting drinks at the Harlem Meer Herring Gull - 7 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 10 Reservoir, another at the Meer, & many flyovers Great Egret - 2 at the Harlem Meer & flyovers Snowy Egret - 5 or 6 flyovers Green Heron - east end of the Loch (Bob - early a.m.) Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - male & female Loch Northern Flicker - pair Wildflower Meadow Eastern Kingbird - 2 (north end Reservoir, Nutter's Battery) Warbling Vireo - singing in several locations with a pair south of Nutter's Battery Red-eyed Vireo - 3 (1 north of east side of the Pool (Sandra Critelli), pair NE Great Hill) Blue Jay Barn Swallow - 8 (2 North Meadow Ballfields, 2 over Conservatory Garden, at least 4 north Reservoir with 2 active nests) House Wren - singing Green Bench American Robin - 4 nests Gray Catbird - singing in several locations Northern Mockingbird - 2 (Wildflower Meadow & SE Meer) Cedar Waxwing - 4 (2 east side of the Pool, 2 SE Meer) European Starling - 50+ with many juveniles House Finch - several locations - some juveniles Common Yellowthroat - male singing at Wildflower Meadow until at least 10am Yellow Warbler - adult male Green Bench (9:50am) Pine Warbler - singing male in pine at Green Bench (9:50am) Chipping Sparrow - singing at the Grassy Knoll (Deb - 8:15am) Song Sparrow - heard north end Reservoir (7am) Northern Cardinal - residents Indigo Bunting - 2 east end of the Loch (patchy male (Bob - early), female around 10am) Red-winged Blackbird - 7 (6 males & 1 female Harlem Meer - other females probably on nests) Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - male south of Green Bench Baltimore Oriole - 5 (pair south of Nutter's Battery, male at nest feeding at least 2 fully-feathered young east side of Pool) -- Singing male Common Yellowthroat, Wildflower Meadow: https://www.photo.net/photo/18397383 Male Pine Warbler, Green Bench: https://www.photo.net/photo/18397382 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/ --
