Central Park NYC Monday May 10, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: 19 Species of Wood Warblers in Central Park. In Bryant Park a Clapper Rail reported in the morning had many observers throughout the day*. The female Western Tanager continued in Carl Schurz Park.** During an early morning flight starting at 7:30am and lasting 1/2 hour RDC observed many birds descending into Central Park.
Here's Monday's list: Canada Goose - 4 Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - 15-20 Mourning Dove - 15-25 Chimney Swift - 4-6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 male Oak Bridge at the Upper Lobe Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested cormorant - 4 Great Egret - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Barred Owl - continued (David Barrett) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - 2 turtle Pond Dock Northern Flicker - 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Summer House Eastern Kingbird - Pair Turtle Pond (also there on Sunday May 9th) Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 (Bob - early) Blue-headed Vireo - 5 Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 10-15 Black-capped Chickadee - 1 singing at Warbler Rock Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden House Wren - 3-4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 south side of Turtle Pond Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 10 Veery - 3 Swainson's Thrush - 5 Hermit Thrush - 1 south side Turtle Pond Wood Thrush - 4 American Robin - 30-50 Gray Catbird - 20-30 House Finch - 5 American Goldfinch - 5-10 Chipping Sparrow - 2 or 3 in Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Upper Lobe Eastern Towhee - heard 3-4) Baltimore Oriole - 10-15 Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Brown-headed Cowbird - heard-only at Belvedere Castle Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 5-10 Worm-eating Warbler - Swampy Pin Oak Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 5-10 Nashville Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Warbler Rock) Common Yellowthroat - 5 Hooded Warbler - 1 heard-only near the Boathouse Cafe American Redstart - 5-10 Cape May Warbler - 3 males Northern Parula - 5-7 Magnolia Warbler - 15-20 Blackburnian Warbler - 2 males Belvedere Castle Yellow Warbler - 5-7 (males & females) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3-5 (males & females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Prairie Warbler - 5-7 Black-throated Green Warbler - around 5 Wilson's Warbler - male at Swampy Pin Oak Scarlet Tanager - 5 Northern Cardinal - 5-10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (2 males, 1 female) -- Roger Pasquier reported a heard-only Bobolink at the Upper Lobe and a heard-only Bay-breasted Warbler at Belvedere Castle. -- Reports from the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentral Park on twitter, a non-commercial bird alert system maintained by David Barrett: *Lower East Side Birder @LESBirder reported a Clapper Rail in Bryant Park at 8:50am. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/LESBirder/status/1391737486947274754 **Signe Hammer @SigneHammer1 reported the continuing female Western Tanager near the feeders in Manhattan's Carl Schurz Park. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/SigneHammer1/status/1391865406244233217 Ryan Serio @rserio78 reported a Louisiana Waterthrush on the southwest side of the 59th Street Pond in Central Park. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/rserio78/status/1391889360715456514 -- Deb Allen -- 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/ --
