Central Park NYC Thursday August 31, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Merlin, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, 11 Species of Wood Warblers including the immature female Hooded Warbler seen today at Evodia Field. Wednesday's Golden-winged Warbler was spotted that morning by Dan Stevenson, PhD, north of Azalea Pond, and seen initially with Karen Evans and Peter Haskel. Later in the day Alexandra Wang obtained a video of the bird, and it was also seen by other birders. This morning the Golden-winged Warbler continued in the Ramble and was first reported by Lotus Winnie Lee, and later by Elizabeth Paredes. -- Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 6 Mourning Dove - 10-12 ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 or 3 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - hatch-year female Azalea Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Ramble (Bob - early) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 2 Ramble Merlin - 1 low flyover Tupelo Field Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 west of Azalea Pond & Source of the Gill Warbling Vireo - 1 Captain's Bench (David Barrett) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 4 or 5 Cedar Waxwing - flock of 4-6 Blue Gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Tupelo Field Carolina Wren - 1 or 2 Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 5-7 Northern Mockingbird - 1 hatch-year Swampy Pin Oak Veery - 3 or 4 American Robin - 20-25 House Finch - 1 male Persimmon Slope Baltimore Oriole - 3 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 1 south of Azalea Pond Northern Waterthrush - 1 heard Tupelo Field Black-and-white Warbler - 4 or 5 Mourning Warbler - female east of Gill Overlook (Bob - early) Hooded Warbler - hatch-year female continued today at Evodia Field American Redstart - 10-15 Magnolia Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle, Evodia Field) Yellow Warbler - 1 female Belvedere Castle Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 or 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 or 2 females - Evodia Field & west of Azalea Pond Canada Warbler - 3 Scarlet Tanager - 1 or 2 in the Ramble Northern Cardinal - 5-7 For timely bird reports on Central Park see the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark, maintained by David Barrett on twitter. -- 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/ --
