Central Park NYC Sunday May 16, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: A nice variety of birds today, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 20 Species of Wood Warblers including Prothonotary Bay-breasted, Cape May, and Blackburnian warblers. Canada Goose - 6 Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 10-15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 4-6 Herring Gull - 12 Double-crested Cormorant - 17 Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Reservoir (Deb-early) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 uphill from Boathouse Cafe Northern Flicker 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 or 3 Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Upper Lobe Warbling Vireo - 6 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Black-capped Chickadee - heard-only Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 in Ramble Veery - 5 American Robin - 50-75 (not counting nestlings) Gray Catbird - 20-30 Cedar Waxwing - 5-10 (Tupelo Field & east end of Turtle Pond) Baltimore Oriole - 5-7 Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 5-10 Northern Waterthrush - south of Azalea Pond Black-and-white Warbler - 5-7 Prothonotary Warbler - female Upper Lobe (first-of-season for Central Park)* Common Yellowthroat - 3-5 American Redstart - 15-20 Cape May Warbler - 2 (male & female) in Ramble Northern Parula - 5-20 Magnolia Warbler - 5-8 Bay-breasted Warbler - 5-7 Blackburnian Warbler - 6-8 Yellow Warbler - 3-5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 Blackpoll Warbler - 5-10 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3-5 females Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3-5 Prairie Warbler - male Belvedere Castle Black-throated Green Warbler - 3-5 Canada Warbler - 2 Upper Lobe Wilson's Warbler - 2 or 3 (Oven & Turtle Pond) Scarlet Tanager - male Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- Selected tweets: *the Prothonotary Warbler was reported early this afternoon by Mary Beth Kooper @imarybethnyc on twitter. Thread here: https://twitter.com/imarybethnyc/status/1393964699562168321 David Barrett @BirdCentralPark posted a photos of an Olive-sided Flycatcher he found close to Azalea Pond. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/BirdCentralPark/status/1394000035008892932/photo/1 -- 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/ --
