Central Park, NYC - North End Friday, June 16, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, and many other observers
Highlights: Fledged Northern Flickers, lingering warblers: Yellow Warbler & Common Yellowthroat. Canada Goose - 8 Harlem Meer Mallard - 15-20 (Meer & Pool) plus brood of 5 ducklings at the Pool Indian Runner Duck - domestic Mallard at Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - at least 6 plus 1 juvenile Chimney Swift - 8 Herring Gull - 7 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 5 flyovers Great Egret - 5 flyovers Snowy Egret - around 10 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - Meer Island Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 pairs Downy Woodpecker - male at the Loch Northern Flicker - 2 adults with 5 fledglings at the Loch Eastern Kingbird - Nutter's Battery Warbling Vireo - at least 5 pairs Red-eyed Vireo - NE Great Hill (lone bird, not singing) Blue Jay - Loch Barn Swallow - 2 over Great Hill White-breasted Nuthatch - south of the Blockhouse House Wren - singing - moving between the Green Bench & wildflower Meadow American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents Northern Mockingbird - flyover Wildflower Meadow Cedar Waxwing - pair Grassy Knoll & small groups feeding on Shadbush berriers & cherries House Finch - 3 Wildflower Meadow American Goldfinch - 3 - male & 2 females moving between Grassy Knoll & Wildflower Meadow Common Yellowthroat - male west side of Wildflower Meadow Yellow Warbler - female Green Bench Chipping Sparrow - moving between Grassy Knoll/Sparrow Ridge & Green Bench making "chip" calls Song Sparrow - pair Conservatory Garden Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - 3 first-summer males Nutter's Battery Common Grackle - residents Baltimore Oriole - 4 pairs In addition: Edward Gaillard tweeted a singing common Yellowthroat east of Belvedere Castle at 8:42a.m. Tony Gazso tweeted a Yellow Warbler at Turtle Pond near Belvedere Castle at 9:02am. 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/ --
