Central Park NYC Saturday April 28, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights:12 Species of Wood Warblers including Prairie and Blackburnian Warblers. Canada Goose - 5 (4 Lake, 1 Turtle Pond) Mallard - not many (6 Lake & a few onTurtle Pond) Double-crested Cormorant - flyover flock of 25, others on Turtle Pond & the Lake Mourning Dove - 10 Evodia Field Herring Gull - a few flyovers Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - near Bow Bridge (continuing since 4/26) Red-tailed Hawk - adult circling over west side Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker -4 (male drumming near Summer House, Indian Cave, Tupelo Field, Balancing Rock) Blue-headed Vireo - at least 7 (numbers greatly diminished in comparison to Friday) Blue Jay - residents Crow - silent flyover Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - between the Point & feeders (David Barrett) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (2 on the Point, 1 Riviera) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 to 30 Veery - SE corner turtle Pond on shoreline Hermit Thrush - 7-10 Wood Thrush - west side of Swampy Pin Oak American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - 2 (singing at Warbler Rock, singing at Riviera) House Finch - feeders American Goldfinch - feeders Eastern Towhee - 4 (3 male, 1 female at feeders) Chipping Sparrow - feeders (Kathleen Massey) Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Oven, Bow Bridge) White-throated Sparrow - at least 20 Orchard Oriole - 3 males (2 adult, 1 first-spring) perched together at Maintenance Field Baltimore Oriole - the Point & Tupelo Field Red-winged Blackbird - singing males in several locations Brown-headed Cowbird - female Bow Bridge, male Common Grackle Ovenbird - Maintenance Field (David Barrett) Worm-eating Warbler - west side of Lake Northern Waterthrush - 5 to 7 Blue-winged Warbler - the Point (David Barrett) Black-and-white Warbler - 12 American Redstart - adult male at the Point Northern Parula - male Wagner Cove Blackburnian Warbler - male in big will just south of Willow rock Yellow Warbler - 7 (5 males & 2 females) Palm Warbler - 10 to 15 Pine Warbler - 2 east side of Turtle Pond Yellow-rumped Warbler - 50 Prairie Warbler - 4 (west side of Lake, Riviera, the Point, Tupelo Field) Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - male at Evodia Field (as many as 4 reported there) -- A Flyover Common Loon and Savannah Sparrows (4) at Cherry Fill were inadvertently omitted from the report for Friday April 27. Sorry for the delayed post. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --