Central Park NYC Saturday, August 12, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 6 Species of wood Warblers including Worm-eating & Blue-winged Warblers, Pine Warbler (FOS - early), Spotted Sandpipers, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Osprey, and Cooper's Hawk (FOS - early). Canada Goose - 2 the Pond Gadwall - 15 (14 Reservoir, 1 Turtle Pond) Mallard - 10 Turtle Pond, others on Reservoir & the Pond Mourning Dove - 10 Chimney Swift - few Spotted Sandpiper - 2 hatch-year (Upper Lobe & the Pond) Herring Gull - flyovers & Reservoir Great black-backed Gull - at least 9 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 12 Reservoir & flyovers Osprey - flyover Tupelo Field Cooper's Hawk - adult female chasing Redptailed hawk Summer House Meadow/Swampy Pin Oak - flew east (first-of-season, early) Red-tailed Hawk - adult with Cooper's Hawk Summer House Meadow/Swampy Pin Oak Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker - 4 Tupelo Field Eastern Kingbird - 6 (4 Turtle Pond, 2 Lake) Warbling Vireo - 6-8 (including 4 at the Summer House) Blue Jay Barn Swallow - 8 Black-capped Chickadee - Turtle Pond Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2-4 (2 Tupelo Field, 2 later at Summer House) American Robin - many Gray Catbird - 2 or 3 in most locations Northern Mockingbird - Turtle Pond (Andrea Hessel) Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 9 or 10 Tupelo Field House Finch - Maintenance Field & Mugger's Woods Song Sparrow - heard at the Pond Baltimore Oriole - 5 (4 including adult male Maintenance Field, 1 hatch-year on the Point (Jackie)) Common Grackle Worm-eating Warbler - Maintenance Field Northern Waterthrush - 4 (2 Oven, 1 Turtle Pond, 1 Summer House Meadow) Blue-winged Warbler - SW Reservoir (Deb - early) American Redstart - 8 Yellow Warbler - 13 Pine Warbler - second-year in prebasic molt east side Turtle Pond - first-of-season (early) Northern Cardinal - adult male feeding 2 juveniles Humming Tombstone Signe Hammer reported a Great Blue Heron briefly at the Reservoir after lunch. 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/ --
