Central Park NYC Sunday June 9, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Common Yellowthroat (2), Northern Parula (2), Blackpoll Warbler, Osprey (2). Canada Goose - 2 Harlem Meer Gadwall - male at the Pool Mallard - 8 adults, 20 ducklings Mourning Dove - 4 Chimney Swift - 6 together over Nutter's Battery Double-crested Cormorant - 6 flyovers Great Egret - more than 8 flyovers Snowy Egret - 13 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 flyovers Osprey - 2 flyovers (1 Nutter's Battery, 1 carrying flounder over the Pool) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (adult, immature) Red-belied Woodpecker - the Loch Downy Woodpecker - 2 males (Fort Clinton, Wildflower Meadow) Northern Flicker - female Wildflower Meadow Great Crested Flycatcher - western side of the Loch Eastern Kingbird - 2 (the Pool, n. side of Meer on lawn) Warbling Vireo - pair with nest at Nutter's Battery Blue Jay - 3 (2 mobbing Red-tailed Hawk) Tree Swallow - flyover west side of Wildflower Meadow Barn Swallow - pair perched together Wildflower Meadow American Robin - many, some nests & juveniles Gray Catbird - 5 Cedar Waxwing - 10-12 (some eating Shadbush berries) House Finch - eating Shadbush berries north side of the Pool (Carine Mitchell) Song Sparrow - 2 collecting insects SE corner Harlem Meer White-throated Sparrow - 2 north side of Loch (Cole) Baltimore Oriole - 3 adult males Red-winged Blackbird - 8 Common Grackle - 7 Common Yellowthroat - 2 (male Lasker Pool, female Wildflower Meadow) Northern Parula - 2 males west side of Wildflower Meadow (Andrea Hessel) Blackpoll Warbler - heard Northern Cardinal - 6 On the north side of the Pool we found our FOS Eastern Tailed Blue (butterfly) nectaring on clover. 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/ --
