Central Park NYC Sunday July 4, 2021
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Worm-eating Warbler (2 or 3 - early fall arrival, but not a record date for Central Park), Swamp Sparrow (early fall arrival date for Central Park). Canada Goose - 18 Wood Duck - male in eclipse plumage Turtle Pond (reported by Alice Deutsch) Gadwall - pair in eclipse plumage SW Reservoir (Deb - early) Mourning Dove - 30-40 Herring Gull - 15 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Double-crested Cormorant - 19 Great Egret - 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult flew west from Turtle Pond Barred Owl - continuing bird heard-only Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 4 or 5 including at least one juvenile Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 Eastern Kingbird - pair at Turtle Pond (nest with young being fed) Eastern Wood-Pewee - heard in Ramble (reported by Alice Deutsch) Blue Jay - 5, begging call of juvenile heard at the Oven Barn Swallow - 4 or 5 Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Evodia Field Carolina Wren - 2 or 3 American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 7 or 8 Cedar Waxwing - 2 east of Belvedere Castle in Smoketree House Finch - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 1 at the Oven (record early fall arrival date for Central Park) Baltimore Oriole - 2 (adult male Turtle Pond, juvenile between Tupelo Field & Humming Tombstone) Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (male & female) Turtle Pond Common Grackle - 3 or 4 Worm-eating Warbler - 2 Tupelo 1 Iphigene's Walk (possibly one of those seen at Tupelo Field) Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5 including a juvenile at Humming Tombstone -- Happy Independence Day, Deborah 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/ --
