Central Park NYC - Strawberry Fields & Ramble Monday, August 28, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Blackpoll Warbler (first-of-season), Worm-eating Warbler & 10 other Species of Wood Warblers, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Mallard Mourning Dove - a few at Strawberry Field & the Upper Lobe Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Tupelo Field Herring Gull - flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - Oven Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Strawberry Fields & the Ramble) Eastern Wood-Pewee - Strawberry Fields (Peter Haskel) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - Humming Tombstone Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 or 3 (1 or 2 Stone Arch, 1 Strawberry Fields) - all spotted by Jeffrey M. Ward Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - Gill west of Azalea Pond - doing a perfect imitation of Philadelphia Vireo alarm call White-breasted Nuthatch - heard in 2 locations House Wren - 2 or 3 Strawberry Fields Carolina Wren - 2 between Warbler Rock & Summer House - not getting along Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Ramble - both Jeff Ward) Veery - 3 Unidentified Thrush - brief look at the Oven American Robin - many Gray Catbird House Finch - fewer than 5 (Strawberry Fields & Upper Lobe) Baltimore Oriole - 5 including 3 adult males Red-winged Blackbird - flyover flock of 6 Common Grackle Ovenbird - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Humming Tombstone) Worm-eating Warbler - Oven (probably the bird at the Evodia Field tweeted by John Antory at 10:30am) Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Strawberry Fields, the Gill (Jeff Ward)) Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (2 Strawberry Fields, 1 Maintenance Field) Black-and-white Warbler - 5 including one low and close at the Upper Lobe Common Yellowthroat - 4 including 1 adult male American Redstart - 25 including 1 adult male Northern Parula - 3 Strawberry Fields Magnolia Warbler - Maintenance Field Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 of these in Strawberry Fields) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 Blackpoll Warbler - Tupelo Field (Jeff Ward) - FOS Northern Cardinal Others reported: Matthew Rymkiewicz tweeted a Prairie Warbler at Belvedere Castle at 7:04am. Kevin Topping tweeted 3 Spotted Sandpipers at the Reservoir at 8:13am. See @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett for Manhattan bird tweets. 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/ --
