Central Park, NYC Saturday June 3, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cloudy and breezy Saturday: Seven species of Wood Warblers including Black-throated Green Warbler. Also Yellow-throated Vireo, Spotted Sandpiper, and, reported by David Barrett, a Calling Acadian Flycatcher. Canada Goose - 11 Gadwall - pair continues on Turtle Pond Mallard - 5 or 6 Mourning Dove - 35-40 Chimney Swift - 3 or 4 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 flyover Boathouse Herring Gull - 2 or 3 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 4 or 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 flyover Bow Bridge Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Great Horned Owl - 1 continuing mobbed by American Crows Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Northern Flicker - 1 in the Ramble Great Crested Flycatcher - heard Shakespeare Garden Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 south side Turtle Pond Acadian Flycatcher - 1 calling at Gill Overlook reported by David Barrett* Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 SE Turtle Pond (Anindya Seng) Warbling Vireo - 4 or 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - nesting in pine Shakespeare Garden American Crow - 16-21 Cedar Waxwing - 2 Belvedere Castle Carolina Wren - 1 Maintenance Field House Wren - 1 Belvedere Castle Gray Catbird - 5 pairs, adult carrying food at Boathouse Wood Thrush - 1 singing in Ramble American Robin - 15-20 House Finch - 4-6 American Goldfinch - pair Belvedere Castle Baltimore Oriole - 2 or 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5 Common Grackle - 7-10 Ovenbird - 1 singing in Ramble Black-and-white-Warbler - 1 male south side Turtle Pond (Anindya Seng) American Redstart - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 2 (female Belvedere Castle, male Shakespeare Garden) Blackpoll Warbler - 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (male & female SE Turtle Pond) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 including male feeding fledgling in Ramble -- *See @BirdCentralPark and @mbalerter on Twitter, both maintained by David Barrett for this and many other NY County bird reports. 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/ --
