Central Park, NYC Friday-Saturday, August 13-14, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Eleven Species of Wood Warblers including Prothonotary and Blackburnian Warblers and Black-billed Cuckoo. The Prothonotary Warbler was first reported at Turtle Pond on Wednesday August 11th by Vincent Ladevaia @vondoom on twitter via the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark, with two individuals confirmed there by several photographers. Prothonotary Warblers continuted at Turtle Pond through Friday. Today (Saturday Aug. 14th) we saw a male Prothonotary Warbler at two locations Oak Bridge at the Upper Lobe, and in Mugger's Wood in the Ramble. Unless otherwise noted, birds in the following list were observed on Saturday morning. Canada Goose - 12 Gadwall - 4 (Reservoir 6:15am - Deb) Mallard - 35 Mourning Dove - 20 Black-billed Cuckoo - the Dene Slope (reported by Sandra Critelli), Azalea Pond (reported by Doug Futuyma) Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (male Tupelo Field, female/hatch-year Shakespeare Garden (David Barrett)) Herring Gull - 15 Ring-billed Gull - 3 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 (Reservoir on Friday - Bob) Double-crested Cormorant - 8 Cooper's Hawk - immature caught Mourning Dove at Chez Armando early this morning (reported by Armando) Belted Kingfisher - reported at Turtle Pond early this morning Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3-4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (female & hatch-year in Ramble) Northern Flicker - Azalea Pond Eastern Kingbird - 5 (2 locations) Warbling Vireo - 1 Turtle Pond (3 at the North End on Friday) Red-eyed Vireo - 2 (1 Mugger's Woods, 1 Upper Lobe) Blue Jay - 5 Barn Swallow - 2 or 3 over the Great Lawn Black-capped Chickadee - 1 in the Ramble Carolina Wren - 1 east of Tupelo Field American Robin - 40-60 Gray Catbird - 10-20 including some juveniles House Finch - 10-15 American Goldfinch - male & female at the Wildflower Meadow Friday Song Sparrow - 3 (2 Wagner Cove, 1 Reservoir) Baltimore Oriole - 9-14 Common Grackle - juvenile at the Oven Ovenbird - 1 Mugger's Woods Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Turtle Pond, Upper Lobe), 1 at the Pool Friday Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Mugger's Woods, 1 in the North Woods Friday Black-and-white Warbler - 3 in the Ramble today, 4 at the North End Friday Prothonotary - 1 male (Oak Bridge & Mugger's Woods) - see highlights American Redstart - 7 including adult male, 14 at the North End Friday Northern Parula - 1 in the North Woods Friday Blackburnian Warbler - hatch-year female SW Great Hill Friday Yellow Warbler - 1 east end of Turtle Pond, 3 at the north End Friday Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 at the North End Friday Canada Warbler - 1 hatch-year Mugger's Woods Northern Cardinal - 7-10 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/ --
