Central Park NYC Thursday May 5, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: 15 Species of Wood Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Canada Goose - 6 Gadwall - male Harlem Meer Mallard - 5 Mourning Dove - a dozen Yellow-billed Cuckoo - heard Evodia Field in the Ramble Chimney Swift - 15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Humming Tombstone Ring-billed Gull - several flying over the Harlem Meer Herring Gull - 5-10 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 10-15 Great Egret - 1 Harlem Meer Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Harlem Meer Osprey - male catching a fish at the Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 2 nesting pairs (2 chicks visible at nest across from Conservatory Garden) Great Horned Owl - continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 2 Peregrine Falcon - over the east side of Turtle Pond Great Crested Flycatcher - Magic Bush west of Pinetum Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond Least Flycatcher - Swedish Cottage White-eyed Vireo - Humming Tombstone Blue-headed Vireo - 5 Warbling Vireo - 7 Blue Jay - 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - several at the Harlem Meer Barn Swallow - 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Cedar Waxwing - 4-6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Turtle Pond Dock House Wren - 3 Gray Catbird - 10-20 Veery - 5 Hermit Thrush - 5-10 Wood Thrush - 2 Tanner's Spring American Robin - 25-35 House Finch - 2 Chipping Sparrow - 15-20 Field Sparrow - Magic Bush west of Pinetum (E. J. Bartolazo) White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Savannah Sparrow - near Turtle Pond Dock Song Sparrow - Magic Bush Swamp Sparrow - Azalea Pond Eastern Towhee - 2 (male Ramble, female Tanner's Spring) Baltimore Oriole - 4-6 Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Common Grackle - 10-15 Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Blue-winged Warbler - 3-5 Black-and-white Warbler - 5-10 Nashville Warbler - 3-5 Common Yellowthroat - male at the Loch American Redstart - 5 Cape May Warbler - Swedish Cottage (Bill Perro) Northern Parula - 15-20 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 6-8 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 males Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10-15 Prairie Warbler - 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Ramble Scarlet Tanager - 3 males (1 Swampy Pin Oak, 2 Summit Rock) Northern Cardinal - 5-8 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3-4 -- Enrico Leonardi reported an Eastern Bluebird at the Great Hill. Chris Cooper reported a Chuck-will's-widow at the Loch. -- Deb Allen
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