Central Park NYC Thursday May 11, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: 20 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Nashville, and Bay-breasted Warblers. Eastern Kingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Least Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Purple Finch.
Canada Goose - 8-12 Mallard - 10-15 Mourning Dove - 15-20 Chimney Swift - 6-8 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Turtle Pond Herring Gull - 6-10 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 flyover Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 10-15 Great Egret - 1 Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Lake Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3-4 Downy Woodpecker - 2-3 Northern Flicker - 1 Maintenance Field Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Ramble Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Dock Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Upper Lobe Least Flycatcher - 1 Summit Rock Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 6-10 American Crow - 4-5 Barn Swallow - 1 Reservoir (Bob - early) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 east of Belvedere Castle Carolina Wren - pair Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 8-10 Brown Thrasher - 1 Summer House (Dan Stevenson) Veery - 3-4 Swainson's Thrush - 1 Ramble Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3 Wood Thrush - 3 or 4 American Robin - 10-15 House Finch - 3 or 4 Purple Finch - 1 male bathing at Laupot Bridge White-throated Sparrow - 5-7 Eastern Towhee - 1 female Summit Rock Baltimore Oriole - 8-10 Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6 Common Grackle - 15-20 Ovenbird - 25-30 Northern Waterthrush - 4 or 5 Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Ramble Black-and-white Warbler - 8-10 Tennessee Warbler - 1 heard Laupot Bridge (David Barrett) Nashville Warbler - 3 Common Yellow-throat - 8-10 American Redstart - 5-7 Northern Parula - 15-20 Magnolia Warbler - 15-20 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 male south side Turtle Pond Blackburnian Warbler - 1 Summit Rock Yellow Warbler - 2 or 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 or 5 Blackpoll Warbler - 1 male south side Turtle Pond Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6-8 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 or 4 Black-throated Green - 6-8 Canada Warbler - 2 (Point, Summer House) Wilson's Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond Scarlet Tanager - 4 or 5 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 heard in the Ramble -- My apologies for the delay in reporting, 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/ --