Central Park NYC - Strawberry Fields to Turtle Pond Monday May 3, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Yellow-throated Vireo and 15 species of Wood Warblers including Orange-crowned, Nashville & Cape May Warblers. Canada Goose - 2 Turtle Pond Mallard - 2 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 15-20 chimney Swift - 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - male Shakespeare Garden Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 3 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 1 adult over Strawberry Fields Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy woodpecker - 1 Upper Lobe Northern Flicker - 3 including male near Humming Tombstone American Kestrel - Tupelo Field Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Belvedere Castle & Azalea Pond) Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 (Strawberry fields, Wagner Cove) Blue-headed Vireo - 5 Warbling Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 3 perched over East Drive & 79th Street Tufted Titmouse - 4 heard Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Shakespeare Garden House Wren - 4 including pair in Shakespeare Garden Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Upper Lobe Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5-10 Hermit Thrush - 5 Wood Thrush - 1 Upper Lobe American Robin - 50-100 Gray Catbird - 25-50 Brown Thrasher - 1 Tupelo Field House Finch - 5 American Goldfinch - 10-20 Chipping Sparrow - 3-5 White-throated Sparrow - 15-25 Song Sparrow - 1 south side of the Lake Eastern Towhee - 3-5 Baltimore Oriole - 5 Red-winged Blackbird - 3 Common Grackle - 10 Ovenbird - 5 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Blue-winged Warbler - 1 in the Ramble Black-and-white Warbler - 15-25 Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Wagner cove Nashville Warbler - 1 Tupelo Field Common Yellowthroat - 5-10 American Redstart - 4 (3 adult males, 1 immature male) Cape May Warbler - 2 males (Strawberry Fields, Shakespeare Garden) Northern Parula - 5-10 Magnolia Warbler - 5-10 Yellow Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 (1 female Upper Lobe, 4 males) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10-20 Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 Scarlet Tanager - 1 female Bow Bridge Northern Cardinal - 5-10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 -- An Evening Grosbeak was seen in the Ramble again today by multiple observers including Ben Shyman @BenShyman. The Barred Owl continued as reported by Becky @indigorad. A Wilson's Warbler was reported on the Point by Bets Radley @Elizabeth38884450 See the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark on twitter maintained by David Barrett for additional reports on Central Park birds. -- 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/ --
