Central Park NYC Thursday, May 23, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD
Highlights: 16 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Blackburnian, and Bay-breasted. Canada Goose - 4 Great Lawn Mallard - 8 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 7 Chimney Swift - one or two flyovers Herring Gull - 2 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 11 (10 Reservoir, 1 Turtle Pond) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover adult Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Tupelo Field & Turtle Pond) Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Tupelo Field Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 (David Barrett) Ramble Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 Warbling Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 14 Blue Jay - 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 Turtle Pond Barn Swallow - 1 Reservoir White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Persimmon Slope n. of Boathouse Gray-cheeked Thrush - 11 to 14 Swainson's Thrush - 1 (David Barrett) Ramble Wood Thrush - 1 path along east side of Evodia Field American Robin - many, especially on the Great Lawn Gray Catbird - on territories Cedar Waxwing - 4 to 6 flocks totalling around 60 birds White-throated Sparrow - 1 Ramble Baltimore Oriole - 5 Red-winged Blackbird - 2 Turtle Pond Common Grackle - 4 Swampy Pin Oak Ovenbird - 2 Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Upper Lobe & Tupelo Field) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 females Tennessee Warbler - around 5 singing Common Yellowthroat - 4 (1 male, 3 female) American Redstart - 40 (only 5 adult males) Northern Parula - 6 Magnolia Warbler - 15 Bay-breasted Warbler - female on the Point Blackburnian Warbler - 3 (2 male, 1 female) Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (David Barrett) Upper Lobe Blackpoll Warbler - 30 (mostly female, 5 to 7 males) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 females Canada Warbler - 2 adult males Wilson's Warbler - 4 (1 female) Northern Cardinal - 6 Indigo Bunting - male Tupelo Field 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/ --