Central Park NYC Saturday May 6, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 5 Species of Vireos, 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Blackburnian and Chestnut-sided Warblers. Canada Goose - 5-10 Mute Swan - pair on the Lake Gadwall - pair on the Lake near Oak Bridge Mourning Dove - 30-35 Chimney Swift - 3-4 some collecting twigs for nests Herring Gull - a few flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 8-10 Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Great Egret - 1 flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Upper Lobe (Scott Brevda) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 or 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4-5 Downy Woodpecker - 3-4 Northern Flicker - 2-3 White-eyed Vireo - 1 continued along bridle path just south of the Reservoir Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 (Belvedere Castle, Maintenance Field) Blue-headed Vireo - 4-5 Warbling Vireo - 2 (Upper Lobe, south side of Turtle Pond) Red-eyed vireo - 1 Belvedere Castle Blue Jay - 4-5 American Crow - 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 or 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 east side of Turtle Pond Carolina Wren - pair Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 6-8 Hermit Thrush - 1 Ramble American Robin - 20-25, not counting nestlings House Finch - 1 Pinetum (Edmund Berry) White-throated Sparrow - 10-15 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Willow Rock Baltimore Oriole - 4-5 males Red-winged Blackbird - 4-5 Common Grackle - 8-10 Northern Waterthrush - 1 at the Oven Black-and-white Warbler - 4-5 Nashville Warbler - 1 Warbler Rock Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 1 male Belvedere Castle Northern Parula - 4-5 Blackburnian Warbler - 3 males Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Ramble (Sandra Critelli) Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" south side Turtle Pond (Edmund Berry) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3-4 Black-throated Green Warbler - 5-6 Northern Cardinal - 4-5 Indigo Bunting - 1 male King of Poland (Caren Jahre) -- For additional NY County bird reports see @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/ --
