Central Park, NYC Saturday, July 22, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Magnolia Warbler, American Redstart, and our first-of-season Northern Waterthrush. Canada Goose - Reservoir & Lake - Hatch-year birds growoing like weeds Mallard - Reservoir & Turtle Pond - some older ducklings around Mourning Dove Ring-billed Gull - 5 Reservoir Herring Gull - around 30 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 7 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - at least a dozen Reservoir Great Egret - Upper Lobe (also seen at Turtle Pond) Red-bellied Woodpecker - sev. adults & one juvenile bird just getting a red wash on the crown at Humming Tombstone Downy Woodpecker - Maintenance Field Northern Flicker - Boathouse Cafe (Gillian Henry) & Azalea Pond Great Crested Flycatcher - pair Tupelo Field Eastern Kingbird - Mugger's Woods & Turtle Pond Warbling Vireo - 4 Blue Jay American Crow - heard Barn Swallow - still 5 juveniles and a couple of adults at Reservoir, 2 Great Lawn White-breasted Nuthatch - Azalea Pond, another heard American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird - 4 (1 Maint. Field, fledgling North Meadow Ballfields with 2 adults, appear to have a new nest) Cedar Waxwing - heard House Finch - adult female & juvenile Summer House Meadow Song Sparrow - 2 still singing north end Reservoir Baltimore Oriole - adult male Upper Lobe, one-year-old male north end Reservoir in Black Cherry Red-winged Blackbird - several small southbound blackbird flocks (mostly Red-winged Blackbirds) Common Grackle - some in mixed blackbird flocks Northern Waterthrush - probably the same bird seen at Upper Lobe and Balcony Bridge (early) our FOS for fall American Redstart - adult male in fresh plumage Iphigene's Walk Magnolia Warbler - lingering adult male now in basic (winter) plumage at Summer House Meadow Northern Cardinal - males & females 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/ --