Central Park NYC Saturday May 15, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: 18 Species of Wood Warblers, Eastern Wood-Pewee, White-eyed Vireo. In addition a male Mourning Warbler was reported on twitter*.
Canada Goose - 6 Mallard - 5-10 Mourning Dove - 5-10 Chimney Swift - 10-15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Warbler Rock Solitary Sandpiper - west end of the Pool (Deb) Herring Gull - around 60 Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Double-crested Cormorant - 40-60 Great Egret - 4 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 Osprey - 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 3 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Top of the Point Northern Flicker - 3 including pair near Humming Tombstone Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Warbler Rock Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 uphill from Boathouse Cafe White-eyed Vireo - 1 south side Turtle Pond Warbling Vireo - 3-4 pairs Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 5-10 Barn Swallow - 2 Reservoir (Deb) Black-capped Chickadee - 1 south side Turtle Pond Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Belvedere Castle Overlook White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Ramble Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Persimmon Slope north of Boathouse Cafe Veery - around 5 Swainson's Thrush - south side Turtle Pond Wood Thrush - 1 Tupelo Field (Ryan Serio) American Robin - 20-25 Gray Catbird - 10-15 Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 15 heading north over Maintenance Field House Finch - 3 Delacorte Theater, 3 juveniles south side of the Pool (Deb) American Goldfinch - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 3-5 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Grassy Knoll (Deb) Orchard Oriole - second-year male Warbler Rock Baltimore Oriole - 8-12 Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 7-12 Ovenbird - 5-7 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 7-0 Tennessee Warbler - singing at the Top of the Oven (David Barrett) Common Yellowthroat - 10-15 American Redstart - 10-15 Cape May Warbler - 1 male Warbler Rock Northern Parula - 5-10 Magnolia Warbler - 5-10 Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 males south side Turtle Pond (David Barrett) Blackburnian Warbler - 5 (4 males, 1 female) Yellow Warbler - 5-7 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Blackpoll Warbler - 5-7 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 (3 males, 2 females) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 Canada Warbler - 2 (male e. Turtle Pond (Ryan Serio), female Oak Bridge) Scarlet Tanager - 1 male Top of the Oven (David Barrett & Ryan Serio) Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- A first-of-season Mourning Warbler was photographed at the North End of Central Park near the Blockhouse this morning by Matt Contino @The_GreatAuk and posted on twitter. Link here: https://twitter.com/The_GreatAuk/status/1393637665656934400/photo/1 For this and other Central Park bird reports see the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark on twitter maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
