Central Park (North End), NYC Friday, May 17, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: A slow day, but 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May. Other birds: Summer Tanager, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and Least Flycatcher. Canada Goose - 4 including a nest at NE Reservoir Gadwall - 2 pairs Reservoir (Bob) Mallard - 10+ Mourning Dove - 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - west side Wildflower Meadow Cuckoo - unidentified Nutter's Battery Chimney Swift - 6-12 Herring Gull - flyovers Double-creasted Cormorant - 10 Reservoir & flyovers Great Egret - 2 perched on Meer island & flyovers Snowy Egret - 6 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 2 overhead adult & molting immature) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Blockhouse & east side of North Meadow Ball fields) Northern Flicker - 2 North Woods Eastern Kingbird - pair Harlem Meer (Bob, Bill, Tom, & John - early) Eastern Wood-Pewee - Lily Ponds Least Flycatcher - 2 (Blockhouse & Fort Clinton (David Barrett)) Warbling Vireo - 6 Red-eyed Vireo - at least 3 Blue Jay - 6 American Crow - noisy flock of 8 Barn Swallow - 3 flyovers (mixed in with Chimney Swifts) Veery - Compost Area (Deb - early) Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - nesting Gray Catbird - around 20 Eastern Towhee - heard Green Bench White-throated Sparrow - 2 or 3 along the Loch Baltimore Oriole - 7 to 10 (not nesting yet) Red-winged Blackbird - 4 (3 males & female Harlem Meer) Common Grackle - carrying nesting material at Meer Ovenbird - 5 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Loch Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 4 or 5 American Redstart - 10 Cape May Warbler - 3 (2 males & 1 female Great Hill) Northern Parula - 20 Magnolia Warbler - 10 Yellow Warbler - 3 or 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Blackpoll Warbler - 3 or 4 including a female Black-throated Blue Warbler - female - Jug Handle (n. of east side of Pool) Summer Tanager - 2 males Wildflower Meadow Northern Cardinal - 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (male & female Blockhouse, female Wildflower Meadow) Indigo Bunting - female Wildflower Meadow 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/ --