Central Park NYC - Ramble & Reservoir Sunday, August 27, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 15 species of Wood Warblers including Black-throated Green, Black-throated Blue, Hooded Warbler, and Northern Parula. Canada Goose - 58 Reservoir, another 35 left before 7am Mallard - 20 reservoir & Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - not many Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, the Oven (Tom Walsh)) Spotted Sandpiper - juvenile/first-cycle Reservoir (Deb - early) Herring Gull - at least 2 dozen Reservoir and flyovers Ring-billed Gull - around 20 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 11 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 6 Reservoir Osprey - southbound flyover Mugger's Woods Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker - 2 Maintenance Field Northern Flicker - 3 or 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee - Maintenance Field (Peter Haskel) & probable (Mugger's Woods) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 2 Mugger's Woods (David Barrett) Empidonax Flycatcher - Upper Lobe - probable Willow/Alder (Randall Rothenberg) Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 or 2 Iphigene's Walk (Karen Evans) Warbling Vireo - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Oven) Red-eyed Vireo - 4 (Maint. Field (Andrea Hessel), Mugger's Woods, Summer House Meadow, Riviera (Sandra Critelli)) Blue Jay - a few Barn Swallow - flyover Black-capped Chickadee - Turtle Pond White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Tupelo Field, Azalea Pond) Veery - 3 American Robin - many Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 6 Tupelo Field House Finch - at least 6 (Warbler Rock, Mugger's Woods, Riviera) Song Sparrow - 2 Warbler Rock (Karen Evans) Common Grackle Ovenbird - Evodia Field Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Oven and the Point) Blue-winged Warbler - 4 (2 Maint. Field, Mugger's Woods (Ryan Zucker), Upper Lobe) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 (Carine Mitchell) Common Yellowthroat - 2 Turtle Pond Hooded Warbler - female at Oven American Redstart - 2 dozen including 2 adult males Northern Parula - east side of Mugger's Woods (Karen Evans) Magnolia Warbler - 6 Bay-breasted Warbler - uphill from Boathouse (photo Randall Rothernberg) Yellow Warbler - Bow Bridge (Sandra Critelli) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 6 (David Barrett, Karen Evans, etc.) Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Upper Lobe (Sandra Critelli & Tom Ahlf) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Tuplitree near the Boathouse & Balancing Rock Canada Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal In addition: Ryan Zucker reported via twitter a Blackburnian Warbler seen with Alice Deutsch at the source of the Gill. Andrew Rubenfeld reported a Pine Warbler. John Antory reported via twitter a Tennessee Warbler and Prairie Warbler at the Great Hill and a Mourning Warbler at the Ravine. 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/ --
