Central Park NYC Thursday May 2, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Spotted Sandpiper, Common Loon, Veery, Clay-colored Sparrow, 17 Species of Wood Warblers, Indigo Bunting. Canada Goose - 14 Mallard - 8-10 American Black Duck - 2 (male and female) Reservoir (Deb - early) Mourning Dove - 40-50 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Reservoir (Bob - 6:30 am) Herring Gull - 30-40 Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Common Loon - 2 (1 in breeding plumage) (Bob - early) Double-crested Cormorant - 15-20 Great Egret - 1 Reservoir (Bob & Deb - early) Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (immature at the Point, adult Lake) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 male at the Point Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 Warbling Vireo - 3 (pair and single) Red-eyed Vireo 3 (pair and single) Blue Jay - 6-8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 or 6 House Wren - 2 or 3 Veery - 1 north of the Oven (Xander Vitarelli) Hermit Thrush - 4 or 5 Wood Thrush - 4 or 5 American Robin - 30-40 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Strawberry Fields (m.ob. and Deb - after lunch) Clay-colored Sparrow - 1 Strawberry Fields (m.ob. and Deb - after lunch) Field Sparrow - 1 Maintenance field White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Swamp Sparrow - 1 cut at the Point Eastern Towhee - 3 females Baltimore Oriole - 2 Ramble Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 male top of the Oven Common Grackle - 8-10 Ovenbird - 3 or 4 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Blue-winged Warbler - male Summer House Black-and-white Warbler - 8-10 including some females Nashville Warbler - 1 Gill Overlook (Bob - early) Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 2 males in the Ramble Northern Parula - 15-20 Magnolia Warbler - 2 males in the Ramble Yellow Warbler - 2 (1 male, 1 female) Ramble Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 male east of Azalea Pond (Annie Plum) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Ramble (Paul Curtis) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 males Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" south side of Turtle Pond Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7-9 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 or 3 males Canada Warbler - 1 heard at the Oven (David Barrett) Northern Cardinal - 3 or 4 males Indigo Bunting - 1 male summer House (Dan Stevenson) -- Deb Allen -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --