Central Park NYC Monday August 20, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Hightlights from Strawberry Fields & the Ramble: 11 Species of Wood Warblers including Prairie, Hooded & Blackburnian Warblers, & Belted Kingfishers.
Mallard - a dozen Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 2 Warbler Rock Chimney Swift - 4 over the Lake Ruby-throated Hummingbird - female or hatch-year Tupelo Field Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 2 in flight over 5th Avenue seen from Cedar Hill Belted Kingfisher - 2 females Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - male Tupelo Field Downy Woodpecker - 4 Hairy Woodpecker - hatch-year male Warbler Rock (continuing) Northern Flicker - 2 Warbler Rock Eastern Wood-Pewee - Warbler Rock Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo Field Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 Warbler Rock Eastern Kingbird - 2 Warbler Rock Warbling Vireo - Shakespeare Garden Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 2 Strawberry Fields Carolina Wren - Humming Tombstone Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 American Robin - many Gray Catbird - 8 (mostly hatch-year birds) Northern Mockingbird - Strawberry Fields House Finch - 3 hatch-year birds Strawberry fields Song Sparrow - 2 from path north from Wagner Cove to Bow Bridge Baltimore Oriole - 3 (heard in 3 locations) Common Grackle - 3 Northern Waterthrush - Oven Blue-winged Warbler - male Tupelo Field Black-and-white Warbler - 5 (one male) Common Yellowthroat - 5 (1 young male) Hooded Warbler - male Swampy Pin Oak (continuing from Saturday) American Redstart - 15 (3 adult males) Blackburnian Warbler - female Tupelo Field Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (1 Upper Lobe, 2 Ramble) Black-throated Blue Warbler - female Strawberry Fields Prairie Warbler - male SE Azalea Pond Northern Cardinal - many An immature Great Blue Heron was reported from the 59th Street Pond by a visiting British birder. 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/ --
