Central Park NYC Sunday May 7, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos, 16 Wood Warbler Species including Golden-winged Warbler, 5 Vireo Species, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Great Crested Flycatcher, and a nice variety of Thrushes. Canada Goose - 6-10 Mute Swan - pair Reservoir Mallard - 15-20 Mourning Dove - 10-20 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 (2 Tupelo Field, 2 Maintenance Field) Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 Belvedere Castle Overlook (Karen Evans) Chimney Swift - 5-10 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Lake (Ryan Serio) Solitary Sandpiper - 2 Lake (Ryan Serio) Herring Gull - 7-10 Double-crested Cormorant - 10 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (Maintenance Field, Tanner's Spring) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 4 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Oven White-eyed Vireo - 1 heard Tanner's Spring Yellow-throated Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 5 or 6 Warbling Vireo - 2 or 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 5-10 Fish Crow - 1 calling flyover Ramble Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5-7 Carolina Wren - pair continues at Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 4-6 Veery - 1 on the Point Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 singing in the Ramble (Ryan Serio) Swainson's Thrush - 1 on the Point (Ryan Serio) Hermit Thrush - 2 Ramble Wood Thrush - 1 singing east of Azalea Pond American Robin - 15-20 Purple Finch - 2 females Ramble White-throated Sparrow - 5-10 Eastern Towhee - 2 (male, female) Tanner's Spring Baltimore Oriole - 6-8 Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 male Top of the Oven (Chez Armando) Common Grackle - 15-20 Ovenbird - 15-20 Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Oven (Bill Heck), Upper Lobe) Golden-winged Warbler - 1 male Summit Rock Black-and-white Warbler - 8-10 Nashville Warbler - 2 Delacorte Theater, Tanner's Spring (both David Barrett) Common Yellowthroat - 3 or 4 American Redstart - 2 or 3 males Northern Parula - 5-7 Magnolia Warbler - 4 or 5 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 southeast end of Turtle Pond (Jean Shum) Yellow Warbler - 2 or 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 or 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5-7 (2 females) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 13-15 Prairie Warbler - 1 male southeast end of Turtle Pond Black-throated Green Warbler - 6-8 Scarlet Tanager - 6-8 (1 female) Northern Cardinal - 4-6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (2 males, 1 female) -- 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/ --