Central Park NYC Saturday, May 18, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Chuck-will's-widow, Black-billed Cuckoo, American Woodcock, 19 Wood Warbler Species including Tennessee, Nashville, Bay-breasted, and Cape May Warblers, Yellow-throated Vireo, and Lincoln's Sparrow. Termite hatches everywhere. Canada Goose - nest with 4 eggs at the Pond Mallard - 10 Mourning Dove - 12+ including juvenile Black-billed Cuckoo - 2 Source of the Gill Cuckoo - Unidentified flyover Chuck-will's-widow - Source of the Gill Chimney Swift - 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 American Woodcock - persists at Tupelo Field (seen after lunch) Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Turtle Pond, 1 Lake, at least 4 flyovers Great Egret - 2 (Lake & Pond) Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 at the Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 3 seen circling overhead Red-bellied Woodpecker - a few, including one eating termites at a hatch-out Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Indian Cave & Azalea Pond) Northern Flicker - pair Warbler Rock Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 (Upper Lobe, Tupelo Field, Warbler Rock) Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond, pair Warbler Rock, another Oven/Riviera Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 (Tupelo Field, Iphigene's Walk, Indian Cave) Yellow-throated Vireo - Oven Warbling Vireo - 7 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 4 to 6 Veery - 2 (Evodia Field & Mugger's Woods) Swainson's Thrush - 4 Wood Thrush - singing east of Evodia Field American Robin - fledgling at Upper Lobe Gray Catbird - at least a dozen Cedar Waxwing - 30+ in several flocks House Finch - at least 8 in Dawn Redwoods with at least two fledglings Song Sparrow - 3 (1 singing near Warbler Rock, pair at the Pond) Lincoln's Sparrow - Tupelo Field (after lunch) Swamp Sparrow - Tupelo Field (after lunch) White-throated Sparrow - 5 Orchard Oriole - Tupelo Field (after lunch) Baltimore Oriole - 10 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 including pair at Turtle Pond Common Grackle - 10 Ovenbird - 6 Worm-eating Warbler - Evodia Field (Carine Mitchell - after lunch) Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Upper Lobe, Pond, Tupelo Field) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 (2 female, 1 male) Tennessee Warbler - 5 Nashville Warbler - Humming Tombstone Common Yellowthroat - 10 American Redstart - 12+ Cape May Warbler - 3 Northern Parula - 25 Magnolia Warbler - 15+ Bay-breasted Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 7 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (Summer House & Mugger's Woods) Blackpoll Warbler - 6 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (1 male, 3 female) Black-throated Green Warbler - singing male Mineral Springs (Gabriel Urso) Canada Warbler - Summer House Wilson's Warbler - 3 Scarlet Tanager - 5 (3 male, 2 female) Northern Cardinal - nest with young Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 males (2 Falconer's Hill, 1 second-year Upper Lobe) Indigo Bunting - immature male west side Tupelo Field -- Butterflies: Red Admiral, American Lady, Question Mark. Dragonflies: Green Darner, Twelve-spotted Skimmer (female). To add to the list of today's warblers: Martin Sandler reported a Blackburnian Warbler at a termite hatch at the Upper Lobe. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
