Central Park NYC Monday Sept. 12, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Strawberry Fields at 9am with some pre-walk birding in Strawberry Fields from 8-9am.
Highlights: On Monday the group saw 14 Wood Warbler species, Bald Eagle, Osprey, American Kestrel & Peregrine Falcon. Overall the birding was slow. Saturday was the best day this weekend with good numbers of birds and the most diversity. There were fewer birds Sunday and even fewer Monday. Gadwall - pair in eclipse plumage Turtle Pond Mallard - 6 Turtle Pond Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Tupelo Field, Maintenance Field, Oven Herring Gull - flyovers Osprey - flyover Strawberry Fields (Jeff Ward), high flyover Maintenance Field Bald Eagle - high flyover Maintenance Field Red-tailed Hawk - 3 circling over Maintenance Field, 1 perched over Central Park West Red-bellied Woodpecker - Great Lawn, Summer House Swamp Downy Woodpecker - female Upper Lobe Northern Flicker - 3 Summer House Swamp American Kestrel - female seen from Warbler Rock Peregrine Falcon - heard & seen flying over west side Eastern Wood-Pewee - Strawberry Fields, Summer House Swamp, Tupelo Field (Deb & m.ob. before walk) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - Maintenance Field (Deb before walk - bird found by Doug Futuyma) Philadelphia Vireo - 2 Strawberry Fields one making Philly alarm call (8am pre-walk Will Papp, Jeff Ward, Bob Ruvolo & Bob DeCandido) Warbling Vireo - Strawberry Fields Red-eyed Vireo - Tupelo Field Blue Jay American Crow - flock of 4 flying over Sparrow Rock Red-breasted Nuthatch - 18 (1 Strawberry Fields, 3 Turtle Pond in cypress, 14 Pinetum) White-breasted Nuthatch - Summer House Swamp Carolina Wren - singing Warbler Rock (Deb & Neal Emond before walk) Blue-gray Gnatchatcher - Strawberry Fields Swainson's Thrush - 3 Sparrow Rock (Jeff Ward) Gray Catbird - various locations Brown Thrasher - south of Azalea Pond (Jeff Ward, Maintenance Field (Deb before walk) House Finch - Sparrow Rock, male Tanner's Spring American Goldfinch - Sparrow Rock (Jeff Ward) Ovenbird - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Humming Tombstone) Northern Waterthrush - mouth of Gill (Jeff Ward), Oven (after walk Deb) Black-and-white Warbler - several Common Yellowthroat - Pinetum, Strawberry Fields American Redstart - Upper Lobe, Summer House Swamp, male at Warbler Rock, etc. Cape May Warbler - Strawberry Fields (pre-walk 8:15am Bob Ruvolo) Northern Parula - Warbler Rock Magnolia Warbler - Maintenance Field, Warbler Rock Yellow Warbler - Strawberry Fields (pre-walk Bob Ruvolo & Jeff Ward) Chestnut-sided Warbler - Maintenance Field Black-throated Blue Warbler - female Maintenance Field (Jeff Ward) Pine Warbler - Strawberry Fields (pre-walk Bob Ruvolo & Jeff Ward) Black-throated Green Warbler - Turtle Pond, Iphigene's Walk (Deb before walk) Wilson's Warbler - Maintenance Field (Carine Mitchell) Scarlet Tanager - Maintenance Field (Bob Ruvolo) Rose-breasted Grosbeak - hatch-year male Oven, others seen before & after walk in other Jewelweed patches Common Grackle - small flocks Baltimore Oriole - Weather Station, Strawberry Fields Felipe Pimentel photographed a Canada Warble in the Ramble. A Red-headed Woodpecker was found and reported by David Barrett at around 1pm at Azalea Pond. Notable Insects: Black Saddlebags & Wandering Glider at Turtle Pond, Monarch butterfly Maintenance Field. Deborah Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
