Central Park NYC Sunday May 21, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, four species of Tyrant Flycatchers, Lincoln's Sparrow, Cape May, Bay-breasted, and Blackburnian Warblers. Canada Goose - 4 Wood Duck - 1 male at Reservoir (David Barrett) Gadwall - pair Conservatory Water Mallard - 5-10 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Tupelo Field Herring Gull - 4 or 5 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 perched, 3 or 4 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 Turtle Pond Great Egret - 1 Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4, pair attempting to nest near the Oven (Sandra Critelli) Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 4 (pairs at Locust Grove and in the Ramble) Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 or 3 Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 east end of Turtle Pond Least Flycatcher - 1 Belvedere Castle Warbling Vireo - 3 or 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 5 or 6 Blue Jay - 4 or 5 American Crow - heard Cedar Waxwing - 1 or 2 Swampy Pin Oak Carolina Wren - 1 Persimmon Slope Gray Catbird - 6-8 Swainson's Thrush - 1 Tanner's Spring Wood Thrush - 1 singing east of Evodia Field American Robin - 10-15 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 Turtle Pond Orchard Oriole - 1 second-year male Warbler Rock Baltimore Oriole - 3 or 4 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5 Common Grackle - 6-8 Ovenbird - 2 or 3 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Belvedere Castle Black-and-white Warbler - 4 or 5 Common Yellowthroat - 3 or 4 American Redstart - 4 or 5 Cape May Warbler - 1 adult male Warbler Rock (Alexi Kalogerakis) Northern Parula - 8-10 Magnolia Warbler - 2 or 3 Bay-breasted Warbler - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Blackburian Warbler - 1 female Swampy Pin Oak Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Blackpoll Warbler - 4 or 5 Black-thrroated Blue Warbler - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Scarlet Tanager - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 including female singing from her nest -- 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/ --
