Central Park NYC Monday, May 28, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido,PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 11 Species of Wood Warblers including Black-throated Green and Chestnut-sided Warblers, & Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Mallard - 4 Lake Mourning Dove - a few at feeders and in the Ramble Chimney Swift - 2 over the Lake Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Hernshead Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested cormorant - 4 Lake and a couple of fyovers Great Egret - flew over the Lake landing on the west side of the Point Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 adults (Bow Bridge Island & Wagner Cove) Red-tailed Hawk - young bird standing in Fifth Ave. nest Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 (Warbler Rock, Summer House, & the Oven) Downy Woodpecker - male at the Oven Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 (2 Warbler Rock, 1 Summer House) Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 (Peter Haskel) Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 (Humming Tombstone, south end of Maintenance Field) Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 or 2 (Swampy Pin Oak & Mugger's Woods) Warbling Vireo - singing in 4 locations Red-eyed Vireo - 7Blue Jay - several residents White-breasted Nuthatch - north of Evodia Field (Bob & Deb - early) House Wren - south side of Maintenance Field (Bob & Deb - afternoon) Swainson's Thrush - east side of Mugger's Woods American Robin - resident, nesting Gray Catbird - resident pairs European Starling - noisy juveniles around Cedar Waxwing - 2 bathing at the Oven, others in Mugger's Woods Baltimore Oriole - 3 adult males, occupied nest at Maintenance Field Red-winged Blackbird - 4 (3 males, female at Bow Bridge displaying to male) Common Grackle - scattered around the Ramble and around the shore of the Lake Ovenbird - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 females Common Yellowthroat 3 (1 male, 2 female) American Redstart - 8 to 10 (one adult male) Northern Parula - 2 females (Summer House, Bow Bridge) Magnolia Warbler - 8 (1 adult male) Chestnut-sided Warbler - female Hernshead Blackpoll Warbler - 7 or 8 (3 males, 5 or 6 females) (David Barrett) Black-throated Blue Warbler - female on the Point Black-throated Green Warbler - female Humming Tombstone Canada Warbler - 2 females (Bow Bridge & Summer House) Scarlet Tanager - 1st-spring male (probably the same bird at Warbler Rock & Summer House) 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/ --
