Central Park NYC - Ramble & Reservoir Sunday May 31, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, et al.
Highlights: Mississippi Kite, Yellow-billed Cuckoo and 7 Wood Warbler Species. Canada Goose - 18 adults and 10 goslings Reservoir Mallard - not many Mourning Dove - around 8 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Maintenance Field Chimney Swift - 6 seen together Spotted Sandpiper - north end of Reservoir Ring-billed, Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls - around 75 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - around 10 Great Blue Heron - Reservoir Great Egret - Reservoir Mississippi Kite - first-spring/first-cycle flyover Tupelo Field Red-bellied Woodpecker - a few Downy Woodpecker - heard Northern Flicker - male at nest top of the Oven (Armando reports young in nest) Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 seen together at Swampy Pin Oak Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond Blue-headed Vireo - Shakespeare Garden (Sandra Critelli) Warbling Vireo - 8 Red-eyed Vireo - around a dozen Blue Jay - 2 Chez Armando American Crow - heard in Ramble Tree Swallow - Reservoir Barn Swallow - 4 including 2 adults in and near nest at Reservoir White-breasted Nuthatch - male in the Ramble American Robin - nesting Gray Catbird - nesting Cedar Waxwing - several small flocks House Finch - a few Song Sparrow - 2 singing north end of Reservoir Baltimore Oriole - 3 including a female collecting plant fibers at Tupelo Field Brown-headed Cowbird - pair Maintenance Field Common Grackle - half a dozen Black-and-white Warbler - Castle (Mark Siegeltuch & Sandra Critelli) Common Yellowthroat - heard at 7:15am (Mark Siegeltuch & Bob) American Redstart - 8 Northern Parula - 4 Magnolia Warbler - 2 Yellow Warbler - 4 Blackpoll Warbler - 10-12 Northern Cardinal - nesting Photos of the Mississippi Kite have been posted on twitter on the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett: https://twitter.com/BirdCentralPark/status/1267091630256984071?s=19 and on the New York Birders Facebook Group. 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/ --
