Central Park, NYC - North End Friday, May 26, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, and many others
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Indigo Buntings, 16 Warbler species. Canada Goose - pair Harlem Meer Gadwall - pair Harlem Meer Mallard - 3 drakes & 1 hen Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - 5 to 10 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - High Meadow and later a bit east of there (Bob & Isaiah Sigman-Wender) Chimney Swift - 6 drinking at Harlem Meer Solitary Sandpiper - flyover landed behind Meer Island (Isaiah Sigman-Wender) Herring Gull - 2 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers Great Egret - 1 Harlem Meer & flyovers Snowy Egret - flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Meer Island & flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee - Loch Eastern Kingbird - pair Harlem Meer + lone bird Warbling Vireo - 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 8 Blue Jay Crow Species - 2 flyovers (David Barrett) Barn Swallow - 3 Harlem Meer (Isaiah Sigman-Wender) White-breasted Nuthatch - conservatory Garden (David Barrett) House Wren - singing Green Bench Gray-cheeked Thrush - 3 Loch Swainson's Thrush - Loch American Robin Gray Catbird - pairs Northern Mockingbird - above Meer below Fort Clinton Cedar Waxwing - 19 (4 below Nutter's Battery, 15 East Blowdown) House Finch - 4 Wildflower Meadow Ovenbird - 4 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 6 females Nashville Warbler - female Dead Road & West Drive Common Yellowthroat - 12 (2 males, 10 females) American Redstart - 17 (1 adult male, 6 first-spring males, 10 females) Northern Parula - 15 including 2 adult males Magnolia Warbler - 15 including 3 adult males Blackburnian Warbler - 2 male NE Great Hill Yellow Warbler - 9 (3 males, 6 females) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (2 males & 1 female) (Mitchell Horowitz) Blackpoll Warbler - 11 (1 adult male, 10 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (1 male, 3 females) Black-throated Green Warbler - NE Great Hill (Mitchell Horowitz) Canada Warbler - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Wilson's Warbler - 2 males (Conservatory Garden, Meer Island) Eastern Towhee - calling North Woods Song Sparrow - singing Conservatory Garden Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting - 3 (female North Woods, pair Wildflower Meadow (Mitchell Horowitz)) Red-winged Blackbird - males & females Harlem Meer Common Grackle - a few at Wildflower Meadow & Harlem Meer Brown-headed Cowbird - female Conservatory Garden Baltimore Oriole - 12 (8 adult males, 4 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/ --
