Central Park NYC - Wednesday April 27, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, m.ob. on bird walk from Turtle Pond starting at 9am until around noon.
Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - pair in Ramble & carrying sticks to San Remo south tower Belted Kingfisher - female Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - female Shakespeare Garden Northern Flicker - male south of Summer House Eastern Kingbird - pair at Castle Yellow-throated Vireo - Upper Lobe Blue-headed Vireo - 5 to 10 Warbling Vireo - pair at Maintenance Field Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 5 Turtle Pond Barn Swallow - over Maintenance Field House Wren - a few Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 females, 1 male Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 150 Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush - source of the Gill Gray Catbird - 5 to 10 (an influx) Northern Mockingbird - Oven Ovenbird - Upper Lobe, Mugger's Woods Northern Waterthrush - Laupot Bridge, Upper Lobe & Oven Black-and-white Warbler - 6 males, 2 females Common Yellowthroat - the Point Blue-winged Warbler - singing male Gill Source Cape May Warbler - the Oven (seen with Doug Kurz, Ben King, m.ob.) Northern Parula - heard Black-throated Blue Warbler - singing male Gill Source Palm Warbler - Turtle Pond, the Point Yellow-rumped Warbler - fairly common males & females in equal numbers Eastern Towhee - 10 mostly males Chipping Sparrow - 6+ Tupelo Tield, others high in trees Field Sparrow - Turtle Pond Song Sparrow - the Point Swamp Sparrow - 5 total, Bow Bridge (Tom Socci) and the Gill Red-winged Blackbird - several singing in the Ramble Orchard Oriole - adult male south side of Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - in oak in the Ramble House Finch - singing American Goldfinch - singing in elms Noa & Mayra Cruz reported Ruddy Ducks and a Great Egret at the Reservoir. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
