Central Park NYC Monday May 30, 2022 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Red-headed Woodpecker, Eight Species of Wood Warblers including Blackburnian & Black-throated Green Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Canada Goose - 5 Mallard - 2 flyovers Mourning Dove - 8-10 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - heard at Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 5-10 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 or 3 Great Blue Heron - 1 flying low over the Lake Great Egret - 1 on the Point Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Bow Bridge Island Red-tailed Hawk - flyover adult chased by male American Kestrel Great Horned Owl - continues Red-headed Woodpecker - 2nd-cycle plumage Summer House/Warbler Rock (Bob & I at 7:27am)* Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Tupelo Field American Kestrel - 1 male chasing Red-tailed Hawk seen from Warbler Rock Great Crested Flycatcher - pair Tupelo Field Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Summer House/Warbler Rock in Oak with Red-headed Woodpecker Empidonax Flycatcher - Iphigene's Walk Warbling Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 7-10 Blue Jay - 4 American Crow - 2 mobbing Great Horned Owl early this morning Cedar Waxwing - 4-6 including pair building nest in Strawberry Fields Gray Catbird - 5-10 American Robin - 20-30 White-throated Sparrow - 1 singing near Gill Overlook Song Sparrow - 2 (Cherry Hill side of Bow Bridge, Wagner Cove) Baltimore Oriole - male singing at Humming Tombstone Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 female Wagner Cove Common Yellowthroat - 1 singing male Tupelo Field American Redstart - 3-5 Northern Parula - 2 (Summer House, Wagner Cove) Blackburnian Warbler - 1 male Tupelo Field (Dan Stevenson) Blackpoll Warbler - 2 or 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female Strawberry Fields Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male singing west of south end of Iphigene's Walk Northern Cardinal - 5 or 6 -- *Red-headed Woodpecker in 2nd-cycle plumage closely resembles an adult except that there is still some black barring in the otherwise white secondaries. Seen by 30+ observers with Bob & I this morning. -- Deb Allen
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