Central Park NYC Monday, August 21, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Eastern Wood-Pewee (first-of-season), migrant Red-eyed Vireos (FOS), late female Orchard Oriole, 7 species of Wood Warblers, and Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Chimney Swift - 8 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - at the Oven Herring Gull - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - juvenile - no red in plumage - Warbler Rock Downy Woodpecker - 1 or 2 Northern Flicker - Strawberry Fields & Upper Lobe Eastern Wood-Pewee - Strawberry Fields - first-of-season Empidonax Flycatcher - Strawberry Fields chased by Easter Wood-Pewee Great Crested Flycatcher - molting bird at the Oven Eastern Kingbird - 25 flyovers in groups of 3 to 4 southbound over Strawberry Fields between 7:30 and 8:15 a.m. Warbling Vireo - 4 (2 Warbler rock, 1 Upper Lobe, 1 Swampy Pin Oak/Summer House Meadow) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 (2 Upper Lobe, 1 Summer House Meadow) first migrants of the season White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (Strawberry fields and scattered in Ramble) House Wren - Strawberry Fields American Robin - many Gray Catbird - mostly young birds House Finch - 3 (adult female & 2 juveniles) Warbler Rock Baltimore Oriole - 17 including 3 adult males Orchard Oriole - female Upper Lobe (Elizabeth Millard Whitman) - LATE but not a record Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Oven & Summer House Meadow/Swampy Pin Oak) Blue-winged Warbler - 6 (2 Strawberry Fields, 2 Ladies Pavilion, 2 Maintenance Field) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 18 (including 2 adult males) Yellow Warbler - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Strawberry Fields) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Strawberry Fields Canada Warbler - 3 (1 Strawberry fields, 2 Summer House Meadow/Swampy Pin Oak) Northern Cardinal 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/ --
