Central Park NYC Saturday August 12, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Hairy Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Overall migration is still a bit slow, but we did manage to find eleven species of Wood Warblers including Worm-eating, Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided, and Blackburnian warblers. Canada Goose - 20 Gadwall - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 38 Mourning Dove - 12-15 Chimney Swift - 10+ Herring Gull - 25 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 5-10 Black-crowned night-Heron - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Belted Kingfisher - 1 flyover Shakespeare Garden Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5 including a hatch-year bird Downy Woodpecker - 6-8 including a hatch-year bird Hairy Woodpecker - 1 hatch-year Captain's Bench flew toward the Point American Kestrel - 1 female Shakespeare Garden (Bob - early) Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 Eastern Kingbird - 1 Turtle Pond Island Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Shakespeare Garden Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Ryan Serio) Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 Belvedere Castle Warbling Vireo - 2 Red-eyed Vireo - 8-10 Blue Jay - 3 or 4 Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Shakespeare Garden Barn Swallow - 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 on the Point (Ryan Serio) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Maintenance Field (Ryan Serio) Carolina Wren - 1 Upper Lobe House Wren - 1 Ramble Gray Catbird - 12-15 American Robin - 25-30 House Finch - flock of 8-10 Song Sparrow - 2 singing Reservoir (Deb- early) Baltimore Oriole - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - flock of 8-10 southbound over Belvedere Castle (Bob - early) Common Grackle - 4 or 5 Ovenbird - 1 Gill Overlook Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Bob - early) Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe Blue-winged Warbler - 5 or 6 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 or 4 American Redstart - 6 or 7 Northern Parula - 1 female Maintenance Field (Ryan Serio) Blackburnian Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field Yellow Warbler - 3 or 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 or 4 Canada Warbler - 1 Belvedere Castle Scarlet Tanager - 1 male east of Azalea Pond Northern Cardinal - 5 or 6 -- 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/ --
