Central Park NYC Thursday May 27, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 10 Species of Wood Warblers including Blackburnian and Bay-breasted warblers. Canada Goose - 16 Wood Duck - male Reservoir (Deb-after lunch) Gadwall - pair turtle Pond Mallard - half-a-dozen Mourning Dove - 10-15 Chimney Swift - around 10 Herring Gull - 47 Great Black-backed Gull - 9 Double-crested Cormorant - 11 Great Egret - 1 Reservoir Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Northern Flicker - pair in Ramble near Warbler Rock Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 or 4 Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 or 4 Warbling Vireo - 1 south side of Turtle Pond Red-eyed Vireo - 3-5 Blue Jay - 3-5 American Crow - 4 on Great Lawn (Bob-early) Barn Swallow - adult male S. Gate House Reservoir prob. nest (Deb-after lunch) Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Humming Tombstone White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Humming Tombstone Swainson's Thrush - 1 Tanner's Spring (Deb-after lunch) American Robin - 20-30 Gray Catbird - 7-12 House Finch - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 3-5 Orchard Oriole - singing 2nd-year male with a bit of maroon below the black bib at Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - 5-7 Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Ovenbird - 1 Tanner's Spring (Deb - after lunch) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 American Redstart - 10-15 Northern Parula - 1 male Warbler Rock Magnolia Warbler - 3 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 male Humming Tombstone Blackburnian Warbler - 1 female Humming Tombstone Blackpoll Warbler - 10 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 female Tupelo Field Canada Warbler - 1 or 2 females (1 Warbler Rock & 1 Summer House) Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- Sandra Critelli reported the Olive-sided Flycatcher again just west of Humming Tombstone this evening. -- For up-to-the-minute reports on Central Park Birds see the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark 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/ --
