Central Park NYC Saturday May 8, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Black-billed Cuckoo, 16 Species of Wood Warblers including Nashville & Canada Warblers. Canada Goose - 4 Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - 7 Mourning Dove - 5-10 Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 south side of the Maintenance Field Chimney Swift - 2 Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Barred Owl - continuing Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 in Ramble Northern Flicker - 3 American Kestrel - 2 flyovers Great Crested Flycatcher - heard in Mugger's Woods Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Warbling Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 5-10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, east side of Turtle Pond) White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Warbler Rock House Wren - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Veery - 5-7 Wood Thrush - 3-5 American Robin - 30-50 Gray Catbird - 20-30 American Goldfinch - 10 Chipping Sparrow - 3 White-crowned Sparrow - 1 adult Bethesda (RDC - early) White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 eastern Towhee - 3 Baltimore Oriole - 5-10 Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 10-20 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 5-10 Nashville Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond Common Yellowthroat - 5 Hooded Warbler - 2 heard-only American Redstart - 5-7 Northern Parula - 5-7 Magnolia Warbler - 5-7 Yellow Warbler - 5-7 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3-4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5-10 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Prairie Warbler - 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 4-5 Canada Warbler - 1 singing male Balcony Bridge (Ryan Serio) Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- Andrew Rubenfeld reported a Worm-eating Warbler in Shakespeare Garden. On twitter a male Summer Tanager was reported by @AccountantTaste at the Great Hill, with a close-up photo posted by David Barrett @BirdCentralPark. -- 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/ --
