Central Park, NYC Tues. May 2, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob., on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Highlights: 15 species of Wood Warblers, White-eyed Vireo, and Orchard Oriole. Mallard - Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - flyovers Red-headed Woodpecker - adult continues at feeders Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents White-eyed Vireo - King of Poland Blue-headed Vireo - 5 Warbling Vireo - east of Maintenance Field (usual nesting area) Red-eyed Vireo - 2 Ramble Blue Jay - residents Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Turtle Pond Barn Swallow - Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - feeders Tufted Titmouse - 2 or 3 Ramble Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (pines near Tanner's Spring & in Shakespeare Garden) White-breasted Nuthatch - Ramble House Wren - rock above Iphigene's Walk Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Summit Rock Veery - 3 Swainson's Thrush - Mugger's Woods Wood Thrush - Ramble American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - many House Finch - 5 feeders American Goldfinch - heard Weather Station Ovenbird - 5 Northern Waterthrush - 5 Nashville Warbler - Swampy Pin Oak (Jeffrey M. Ward) Black-and-white Warbler - 7 (males & females) Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 5 Hooded Warbler - male Weather Station (Jeff Ward) female reported nearby Northern Paula - 7 Blackpoll Warbler - 2 Swampy Pin Oak & rock above Iphigene's Walk Yellow Warbler - 2 or 3 Cape May Warbler - Summit Rock Palm Warbler - Ramble (Jeff Ward before walk) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 males Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 males (Weather Station and Summit Rock) Eastern Towhee - 4 (2 males & 2 females) Song Sparrow - singing south side Bow Bridge Swamp Sparrow - Tupelo White-crowned Sparrow - feeders (Pat Dubren) White-throated Sparrow Scarlet Tanager - male Evodia Field (Jeff Ward) Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 males & 1 female feeders Indigo Bunting - 3 in elms Evodia Field (Jeff Ward) Orchard Oriole - first-spring male Summit Rock Baltimore Oriole - male & female Summit Rock Deb Allen For info on bird walks: www.birdingbob.com -- 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/ --
