Central Park NYC Sunday May 19, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Gray-cheeked Thrush, 17 Species of Wood Warblers including Worm-eating, Bay-breasted, Cape May, and Blackburian; Red-breasted Nuthatch. Canada Goose - 9 plus 3 goslings at the Reservoir Wood Duck - male with dark bill Reservoir Gadwall - 2 pairs Reservoir Mallard - 9 Mourning Dove - 8 Chimney Swift - 2 Herring Gull - 6 Reservoir & flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir & 1 flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 10 Reservoir & flyovers Great Egret - 1 Reservoir & 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 2 overhead Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Evodia Field, Tupelo Field) Northern Flicker - Summer House Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 various locations in the Ramble Eastern Wood-Pewee - Shakespeare Garden Warbling Vireo - 8 including a nest still under construction at Maintenance Fld. Red-eyed Vireo - 2 (Maintenance Field & Upper Lobe) Blue Jay - 4 Barn Swallow - 3 (1 Reservoir, 2 Turtle Pond) water too high for Reservoir nests Red-breasted Nuthatch - female in pine at King of Poland Gray-cheeked Thrush - Evodia Field (m.ob.) Swainson's Thrush - 4 Wood Thrush - singing east of Evodia Field American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 8 to 12 Cedar Waxwing - 30-40 in several flocks White-throated Sparrow - 2 or 3 Baltimore Oriole - 8 Red-winged Blackbird - pair Turtle Pond Common Grackle - 10+ Ovenbird - 3 Worm-eating Warbler - continues at Evodia Field Northern Waterthrush - Azalea Pond Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Tennessee Warbler - 2 (Balancing Rock & north of Boathouse) Common Yellowthroat - 5 American Redstart - 15 Cape May Warbler - 5 Northern Parula - around 15 Magnolia Warbler - 10 Bay-breasted Warbler - female southeast side of Maintenance Field Blackburnian Warbler - male Tupelo Field Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (Upper Lobe & Tupelo Field) Blackpoll Warbler - 5 or 6 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 or 4 Wilson's Warbler - Oven Scarlet Tanager - 3 (2 male, 1 female) Northern Cardinal - at least 6 Indigo Bunting - 2 (male near Boathouse (David Barrett), female Tupelo Field) Andrew Block reported a Philadelphia Vireo in the Ramble. 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/ --