Central Park NYC Saturday August 19, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Hairy Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Eleven Species of Wood Warblers including Hooded, Cape May, and Blackburnian Warblers. Canada Goose - 6 Wood Duck - 1 male continuing Reservoir (Deb - early) Gadwall - 2 males Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 7 Mourning Dove - 45-50 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 (Swampy Pin Oak, Captain's Bench) Chimney Swift - 8-10 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Herring Gull - 27 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Turkey Vulture - 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 continuing hatch-year Captain's Bench Northern Flicker - 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Captain's Bench (Andrea Hessel) Eastern Kingbird - 1 Ramble (Scott Brevda) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Tupelo Field Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 9-12 Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 3 Black-capped Chickadee - 1 (Castle & Shakespeare Garden) Barn Swallow - 5 or 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 or 3 Carolina Wren - 3 or 4 Gray Catbird - 15-20 Northern Mockingbird - 3 Veery - 1 Evodia Field Wood Thrush - 1 Maintenance Field (Scott Brevda) American Robin - 40-60 House Finch - 3 or 4 Song Sparrow - 2 Reservoir (Deb - early) Baltimore Oriole - 8-10 Red-winged Blackbird - flock of 10 southbound Common Grackle - 16-20 Ovenbird - 2 Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 1 Evodia Field (Bob - early) Blue-winged Warbler - 3 or 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Hooded Warbler - 1 continuing hatch-year female (Maintenance & Evodia Fields) American Redstart - 6-9 Cape May Warbler - 3 or 4 Northern Parula - 1 Evodia Field (Bob - early) Blackburnian Warbler - 1 ad. female Shakespeare Garden near Castle (Deb) Yellow Warbler - 1 Tupelo Field (Dan Stevenson) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Ramble Scarlet Tanager - 4 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- 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/ --
