Central Park NYC Monday May 27, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Mourning Warbler, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher & Nesting Song Sparrows. Canada Goose - heard Mallard - 9 (Lake & Turtle Pond) Mourning Dove - 11 or 12 Chimney Swift - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers Great Egret - Bow Bridge Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Evodia Field, Hernshead) Great Crested Flycatcher - at least 2 Eastern Kingbird - pair Strawberry Fields Eastern Wood-Pewee - Strawberry Fields Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - north of Evodia Field (Paul Clarke) Traill's Flycatcher - Warbler Rock Empidonax Flycatcher - a couple of elusive birds near the Summer House Warbling Vireo - 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 4 Tufted Titmouse - heard Swampy Pin Oak Swainson's Thrush - Strawberry Fields Wood Thrush - 2 or 3 (2 singing) e. and w. of north end of Evodia Field American Robin - nests Gray Catbird - 5 Cedar Waxwing - around 30 (small flocks many locations) House Finch - pair Oak Bridge & Upper Lobe Song Sparrow - pair carrying food for nestlings or fledglings White-throated Sparrow - Shakespeare Garden Baltimore Oriole - 4 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 males Common Grackle - 6 Mourning Warbler - male east end of Upper Lobe Lawn Common Yellowthroat - 2 (female n. of Ladies Pavillion, singing male Point (Andrea Hessel)) American Redstart - 12 Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 12 Yellow Warbler - male Shakespeare Garden Blackpoll Warbler - 7 Wilson's Warbler - male Willow rock Northern Cardinal Jean Shum reported the failure of two Red-tailed Hawk nests adjacent to the park on Fifth Avenue and Central Park West. 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/ --