Central Park NYC Monday May 8, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 15 Species of Wood Warblers, Summer and Scarlet Tanagers.
Canada Goose - 15-20 Gadwall - 2 Reservoir Mallard - 10-15 Mourning Dove - 25-30 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Maintenance Field Chimney Swift - 8-10 Herring Gull - 70-80 Great Black-backed Gull - 8 Double-crested Cormorant - 8-10 Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Lake Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 above Swampy Pin Oak Blue-headed Vireo - 2 or 3 Warbling Vireo - 2 (Upper Lobe, south side of Turtle Pond) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 5-10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 6-8 Carolina Wren - pair Maintenance Field House Wren - 3 Gray Catbird - 15-20 Veery - 1 at the Gill Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 south of Laupot Bridge (Deb - afternoon) Swainson's Thrush - 1 Summer House Hermit Thrush - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Wood Thrush - 2 (Summer House, Maintenance Field) American Robin - 15-20 House Finch - 6-8 White-throated Sparrow - 15-20 Song Sparrow - pair Wagner Cove Eastern Towhee - 1 female Summit Rock Baltimore Oriole - 4-6 (1 female) Red-winged Blackbird - 5-7 Common Grackle - 15-20 Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Blue-winged Warbler - 3 or 4 Brewster's Warbler - 1 Azalea Pond (Deb - afternoon) Black-and-white Warbler - 6-8 Nashville Warbler - 2 (Summit Rock, Upper Lobe) Common Yellowthroat - 6-8 Hooded Warbler - 2 males (s. side Turtle Pond (Patricia Essler), Spector Playground) American Redstart - 4 or 5 Northern Parula - 25-30 Magnolia Warbler - 10-15 Yellow Warbler - 3 or 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 or 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8-10 Prairie Warbler - 1 male Gill Overlook Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 or 3 Summer Tanager - 1 male Azalea Pond (Deb - afternoon) Scarlet Tanager - 4 males Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 or 4 males -- A Worm-eating Warbler found by Sandra Critelli yesterday after lunch was inadvertently omitted from Sunday's list. -- 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/ --