Central Park, NYC Saturday, May 27, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, & many other observers
Highlights: 13 Wood Warbler Species, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Olive-sided & Acadian Flycatchers Canada Goose - pair with 3 two-week-old goslings Reservoir & flyovers Gadwall - pair Reservoir Mallard - residents Turtle Pond & Reservoir Mourning Dove - residents Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench (early - Bob), Warbler Rock (David Barrett) [same bird??] Chimney Swift 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Humming Tombstone (Bob) Herring Gull - 6 Reservoir (early) & flyover Great Black-backed Gull - Reservoir (early) Double-crested Cormorant - 4 to 6 Reservoir (early) & 2 flyovers Great Blue Heron - flyover around 8:30am (Bob) Great Egret - 2 Reservoir (early) & flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (Upper Lobe & Reservoir) Turkey Vulture - 2 together over Tupelo then Maintenance Field (David Barrett) Red-tailed Hawk - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - Maintenance Field Downy Woodpecker - male Shakespeare Garden Northern Flicker - Gill Overlook Peregrine Falcon - flyover Mugger's Woods Olive-sided Flycatcher - just north of the source of the Gill (Deb) Eastern Wood-Pewee- 2 (Maintenance Field & Humming Tombstone (David Barrett) Acadian Flycatcher - seen early a.m. (Roger Pasquier), later heard Summer House Meadow (David Barrett) Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Upper Lobe, another earlier Great Lawn) Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Maintenance Field/Tupelo Field, Gill Overlook) Eastern Kingbird - Belvedere Castle Warbling Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 10 to 12 Blue Jay - residents - one inspecting an empty nest that had belonged to a Northern Cardinal Barn Swallow - 3 Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - Azalea Pond Gray-cheeked Thrush - 5 singing in the Ramble early a.m. (Bob) another n. of Gill Source (Mitchell Horowitz) Swainson's Thrush - the Point Gray Carbird - residents Cedar Waxwing - at least 8 (showing some interest in Tuliptree flowers) Northern Waterthrush - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 females (Tom Ahlf) Common Yellowthroat - 6 (2 males, 4 females) American Redstart - 12 including 2 adult males Cape May Warbler - female Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench (Mitchell Horowitz) Northern Parula - 5 Magnolia Warbler - 14 to 15 including 2 -3 adult males Blackburnian Warbler - 7 (five males, 2 females) Yellow Warbler - 4 to 5 (2 males, 2 or 3 females) Blackpoll Warbler - 6 to 7 (one or two males, 5 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 females Black-throated Green Warbler - Summit Rock Wilson's Warbler - 2 males (Castle & S. side Turtle Pond) White-throated Sparrow - Point/Oven Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - first-spring male singing here & there in Ramble Common Grackle - residents - adult feeding fledgling at south end Reservoir Brown-headed Cowbird - top of Oven/chez Armando (David Barrett) Baltimore Oriole - 5 (3 adult males, 2 females) Meredith Barges reported a Blue-headed Vireo at the Gill Overlook on Friday (5/26/17). 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/ --
