Central Park NYC Sunday June 5, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am
Bob reports that the park was quiet today with off-and-on light to heavy rain, 65 degrees. Canada Goose - 2 Turtle Pond Wood Duck - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - around 14 ducklings & 7 adults Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Egret - flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - Upper Lobe Herring Gull - flyover Mourning Dove - Shakespeare Garden Chimney Swift - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee - heard in the Ramble Great Crested Flycatcher - pair Humming Tombstone, pair Upper Lobe Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay - 5 to 10 Barn Swallow - 4 over Humming Tombstone House Wren - singing Mugger's Woods American Robin - the only thrush today Gray Catbird - pairs throughout Cedar Waxwing - flock Upper Lobe, flock Shakespeare Garden, small flyover flock Humming Tombstone Black-and-white Warbler - female American Redstart - immature males 4 locations including one singing at Maintenance Field (Carine Mitchell) Eastern Towhee - singing male near feeders Chipping Sparrow - heard Cedar Hill (Carine Mitchell before walk), singing male Cedar Hill (Bob after walk) Northern Cardinal - males & females Red-winged Blackbird - male Turtle Pond Common Grackle - nesting at Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - 10 total - males & females in many locations House Finch - feeders American goldfinch - 3 total - male & 2 females Shakespeare Garden Sol Shamilzadeh reports that the two young red-tails in the 5th Avenue nest fledged today. Carine Mitchell reports that the Wild Bird Fund recently released an Indigo Bunting in Central Park. Real birds for real birders, 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/ --
