Central Park NYC Thursday Apr. 27, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am & 6pm (Reservoir birds after lunch - Deb)
Highlights:13 species of Wood Warblers including Yellow-throated, Orange-crowned, & Nashville Warblers, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole. Canada Goose - starting a nest Bow Bridge island Wood Duck - male Reservoir Gadwall - pair Reservoir Mallard - Reservoir & Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - 3 males Reservoir Bufflehead - 2 pairs Reservoir Red-necked Grebe - WBF release continues NE Reservoir Mourning Dove - various locations Laughing Gull - 2 left Reservoir at about 4pm Herring Gull - 85 Reservoir, flyovers in Ramble Great Black-backed Gull - 7 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorants - Reservoir & Turtle Pond Great Egret - turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - residnets Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - pairs Yellow-throated Vireo - Shakespeare Garden Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - uphill from Boathouse 7:15pm (6pm walk) Blue Jay - residents Barn Swallow- 2 Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - 3 Summer House White-breasted Nuthatch - Tupelo Field House Wren - Ramble Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20+ Hermit Thrush - 10 Wood Thrush - Mugger's Woods American Robin - residents - nests House Finch - 2 Purple Finch - a dozen (Mayra Cruz) Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock American Goldfinch - 2 (Feeders & Shakespeare Garden) Ovenbird - Ramble (David Barrett) Northern Waterthrush - 7 Black-and-white Warbler - 5 all males Orange-crowned Warbler - singing Upper Lobe Nashville Warbler - singing NE Upper Lobe American Redstart - 2 males & female Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Yellow Warbler - 10 to 15 Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Azalea Pond Palm Warbler - in oaks Pine Warbler - in pines south side Turtle Pond Yellow-rumped Warbler - 75 Yellow-throated Warbler - north of Bow Bridge Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 males Eastern Towhee - 2 Chipping Sparrow - East Turtle Pond Savannah Sparrow - Sparrow Rock (Deb after lunch) Song Sparrow - singing near Bow Bridge Swamp Sparrow - Bow Bridge (Deb after lunch) White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - near feeders Red-winged Blackbird - 50 to 100 feeding in oaks Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - flock of 8 , plus others Baltimore Oriole - male west side of Ramble near the Gill 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/ --
