Central Park NYC Sunday. May 14, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Least Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Lincoln's Sparrow, 21 Wood Warbler Species including Tennessee, Nashville, Cape May, Bay-breasted, Blackburnian, and Wilson's Warblers and reports of Hooded and Canada Warblers. Canada Goose - 4 including nesting pair at Turtle Pond Gadwall - 1 male Turtle Pond Mallard - 6-8 Mourning Dove - 30-35 including some juveniles Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 5-7 Herring Gull - 3-5 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 4-6 Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Great Egret - 1 or 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - pair Tupelo Field Northern Flicker - pair Tupelo Field Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Gill Overlook, Willow Rock) Least Flycatcher - 1 near Boathouse Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Tupelo Field (Sandra Critelli) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Warbling Vireo - 4 or 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 8-10 Blue Jay - 4-6 Barn Swallow - 1 flyover Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Oak Bridge, Turtle Pond) Carolina Wren - pair Maintenance Field Veery - 3 or 4 Swainson's Thrush - 4 or 5 Wood Thrush - 1 Swampy Pin Oak American Robin - 15-20 plus active nests White-throated Sparrow - 4 or 5 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 King of Poland Orchard Oriole - 1 adult male Turtle Pond (Bill Heck) Baltimore Oriole - 4 or 5 Red-winged Blackbird - 5 or 6 Common Grackle - 10-15 Ovenbird - 6-8 Northern Waterthrush - 3 or 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 6-8 Tennessee Warbler - 2 or 3 Nashville Warbler - 1 east of Azalea Pond (Paul Curtis) Common Yellowthroat - 5-7 American Redstart - 10-12 Cape May Warbler 3 (2 females (Paul Curtis), 1 male) Northern Parula - 15-20 Magnolia Warbler - 12-16 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 male near Boathouse (Anindya Seng) Blackburnian Warbler - 1 female Upper Lobe Yellow Warbler - 3 or 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 10-12 Blackpoll Warbler - 2 or 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4-6 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5-7 Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 Wilson's Warbler - 3 Scarlet Tanager - 4 or 5 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Alexandra Wang and Signe Hammer reported a Hooded Warbler at Tanner's Spring, and Signe Hammer reported a Canada Warbler at the Point. -- 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/ --
