Central Park NYC Saturday May 1, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, mob.
Highlights - Evening & Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Yellow-throated, Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos, 17 Species of Wood Warblers including Blue-winged, Yellow-throated, Blackpoll, and Canada Warbler. Canada Goose - 20 Northern Shoveler - 5 males Gadwall - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Mallard - 10 Bufflehead - 6 (2 males, 4 females) Ruddy Duck - 3 Mourning dove - 15-20 Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - male uphill from Boathouse Cafe Herring Gull - 14 Double-crested Cormorant - 35 Great Egret - 2 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (2 over Ramble, adult and chick at nest on Cardinal Cooke) Barred Owl - reported Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 3 American Kestrel - hovering over Red-tailed Hawk nest Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Tupelo Field Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Warbling Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 7 American Crow - 4 Barn Swallow - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Laupot Bridge in Ramble House Wren - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Upper Lobe Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20 Veery - 3 Hermit Thrush - 25-50 American Robin - 50-100 Gray Catbird - 10-20 Evening Grosbeak - 2 males Tupelo field House Finch - 4 Purple Finch - 1 female Stone Arch American Goldfinch - 15-25 Chipping Sparrow - 5-6 Field Sparrow - 1 Oak Bridge (in Pin Oak) White-throated Sparrow - 50-100 Song Sparrow - singing at Reservoir Swamp sparrow - 3 Eastern Towhee - 5 Orchard Oriole - adult male south side of Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - 4 or 5 including 1 female Red-winged Blackbird - 12-20 Brown-headed cowbird - 1 male Belvedere Castle Common Grackle - 15-18 Ovenbird - 5-10 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Blue-winged Warbler - 2 males (Azalea Pond & near Boathouse) Black-and-white Warbler - 10 (8 males) Common Yellowthroat - 5 males American Redstart - 3 (2 adult males, 1 immature male) Northern Parula - 7 Magnolia Warbler - 4 males Yellow Warbler - 5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 males (Upper Lobe & Balcony Bridge) Blackpoll Warbler - Warbler Rock (David Barrett) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7 males Yellow-rumped Warbler - around 10 (3 females) Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 first-spring male Hernshead Prairie Warbler - 2 (Oven & near Warbler Rock) Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male Oak Bridge at Upper Lobe (Ryan Serio) Canada Warbler - male Balcony Bridge (David Barrett) Northern Cardinal - 7-9 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Indigo Bunting - 1 first-spring male (Azalea Pond & 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/ --
