Central Park NYC - North End Friday, May 4, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Most of today's list comes primarily from the north end of Central Park with some additional birds from the Ramble: 19 Species of Wood Warblers including Nashville, Cerulean, Chestnut-sided, and Magnolia Warblers (North End) and Prothonotary Warbler (Ramble). Canada Goose - 4 Harlem Meer Mallard - 6 Meer Mourning Dove - many Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Loch Black-billed Cuckoo - 2 Loch Chimney Swift - 4 Harlem Meer Sora - just south of Oak Bridge in the Ramble (Deb - late afternoon) (very shy) Spotted Sandpiper - 2 along the Loch Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 5 flyovers Great Egret - flyover Snowy Egret - 2 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - perched Meer Island Red-tailed Hawk - adult Red-bellied Woodpecker - pair Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker - 2 Great Crested Flycatcher - south of Laupot Bridge (Deb - late afternoon) Eastern Kingbird - The Point (Deb - late afternoon) Blue-headed Vireo - Loch Warbling Vireo - 2 pairs (Pool, green Bench) Red-eyed Vireo - the Pool Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - pair at the Loch Barn Swallow - 2 Harlem Meer Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - the Point (Deb mid-afternoon) Veery - 3 Swainson's Thrush - 8 Hermit Thrush - 3 Wood Thrush - heard only Evodia Field (Deb - late afternoon American Robin - many on nests Gray Catbird - numbers tripled since last week, pairs around now House Finch - bathing at Triplet's Bridge (Deb - mid-afternoon) American Goldfinch - Loch Eastern Towhee - female North Woods Song Sparrow - Wagner Cove (Deb mid-afternoon) Lincoln's Sparrow - across path from north side of Swampy Pin Oak Swamp sparrow - the Pool White-throated Sparrow - 5 White-crowned Sparrow - adult west of Azalea Pond (Deb - late afternoon thanks to Drew Stadlin) Orchard Oriole - adult male Harlem Meer Baltimore Oriole - 10 Red-winged Blackbird - male & females Harlem Meer Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 Common Grackle - residents Ovenbird - 5 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 10-15 (male/female 50/50) Prothonotary Warbler - Upper Lobe (thanks to Jeff Ward) & mouth of the Gill Nashville Warbler - 2 (east of Great Hill, Green Bench) Common Yellowthroat - 7 American Redstart - 8 (6 male, 2 female) Cerulean Warbler - young male at the Loch Northern Parula - 15 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Blackburnian Warbler - east of Great Hill Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 males, 1 female) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 males (east of Great Hill, Loch) Blackpoll Warbler - male North Woods Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 including 1 female Palm Warbler - "Yellow" Loch Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Loch Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Lily Ponds, Loch Prairie Warbler - heard only at the Meer Scarlet Tanager - male Lily Ponds Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 males Lo A Chuck-will's-widow was reported very early this morning in Mugger's Woods by Anthony Collerton, a.k.a. @welshbirder A Red-headed Woodpecker was seen in the Ramble intermittently throughout the day by many observers. -- 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/ --
