Central Park NYC Thursday May 13, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: 15 Species of Wood Warblers, Riverside Park Pileated Woodpecker Report*
Canada Goose - 6 Mallard - around 15 Mourning Dove - 10-20 chimney Swift - around 6 Herring Gull - 27 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Double-crested Cormorant - 20-25 Great Egret - 1 Reservoir Barred Owl - continuing Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Swampy Pin Oak in the Ramble Northern Flicker - 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Warbler Rock Warbling Vireo - pair Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Warbler Rock Blue Jay - 5-10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 south of Azalea Pond White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Ramble House Wren - 1 Summit Rock Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Veery - 1 Ramble Hermit Thrush - 2 Ramble Wood Thrush - 3 or 4 singing American Robin - 30-50 Gray Catbird - 30-40 House Finch - 3-5 American Goldfinch - 1 Turtle Pond Dock White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 Tanner's Spring (Deb after lunch) Swamp Sparrow - 1 Upper Lobe Eastern Towhee - 2 heard in Ramble Baltimore Oriole - 3-5 Red-winged Blackbird - 5 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 5-10 Northern Waterthrush - 1 heard Summit Rock (seen later at Tanner's Spring) Black-and-white Warbler - 3-5 Nashville Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond (Bob & David Barrett 7:45am) Common Yellowthroat - 3-5 American Redstart - 5-7 Cape May Warbler - 2 (male & female) Warbler rock Northern Parula - 5-7 Magnolia Warbler - 5-10 Yellow Warbler - 3-5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Ramble Wilson's Warbler - 3 Scarlet Tanager - 1 male Locust Grove Northern Cardinal - 5-10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 heard Upper Lobe Indigo Bunting - 1 male Turtle Pond Dock *Rare for Manhattan, a Pileated Woodpecker was photographed in Riverside Park between 86th and 87th Streets early this morning by Eduardo Sarmento @edu_birding on twitter. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/BirdCentralPark/status/1392838843733270530/photo/1 The bird was seen again in the early afternoon by Alexi Kalogerakis at the same location. -- 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/ --
