Central Park NYC Tuesday, May 1, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: 11 species of Wood Warblers, Orchard Orioles, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. Canada Goose - 12 (Reservoir, Turtle Pond & Lake) Gadwall - 2 males (Deb - after 7pm) Mallard - not many (Lake & Turtle Pond) Bufflehead - 4 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 8 Reservoir Mourning Dove - many at feeders, pair Shakespeare Garden Chimney Swift - 5 over the Ramble Spotted Sandpiper - Hernshead (David Barrett) Herring Gull Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond & Reservoir Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (Turtle Pond & Lake) Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - mouth of Gill (Tom Ahlf) Red-tailed Hawk - immature perched low at the Gill near Azalea Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 pairs Downy Woodpecker - several pairs Northern Flicker - 1 pair in Ramble Great Crested Flycatcher - SW Reservoir (Deb - after 6pm) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 10 (still in small groups, not pairs) Barn Swallow - 4 Reservoir Tufted Titmouse 3 (pair +1) White-breasted Nuthatch - Azalea Pond House Wren - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Upper Lobe) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 Veery - 2 in Ramble Hermit Thrush - 8 Wood Thrush - singing in Pinetum American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - 6 Brown Thrasher - reported from Swampy Pin Oak Cedar Waxwing - Upper Lobe (Marianne Sutton), flock reported at Tanner's Spring House Finch - 10 feeders American Goldfinch - many at feeders & Upper Lobe Eastern Towhee - 6 (noisy early a.m., then quiet) Chipping Sparrow - 1 at Feeders Song Sparrow - 1 at the Point Swamp Sparrow - 59th Pond mudflat (Deb - late) White-throated Sparrow - 25 (many of these at Upper Lobe) Orchard Oriole - 2 (male & female) in flowering Cherry Maintenance Field Baltimore Oriole - 4 same tree as Orchard Orioles Red-winged Blackbird - around a dozen (Turtle Pond, Oven, Swampy Pin Oak) Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (1 male, 2 females) Ramble Common Grackle - 10 (Oven & Feeders) Ovenbird - 3 Worm-eating Warbler - reported at Ladies' Pavilion Northern Waterthrush - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 10 (7 males, 3 females) Common Yellowthroat - male on island Turtle Pond (7:30AM) Northern Parula - Upper Lobe (early) Yellow Warbler - 4 (2 males, 2 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Turtle Pond (7:30am) Palm Warbler - 3 "Yellow" on the Point Pine Warbler - 2 King of Poland (early) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20 Prairie Warbler - 3 (2 Upper Lobe, 1 on the Point) Summer Tanager - male SW Reservoir (Deb - after 6pm) Northern Cardinal - residents 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/ --
