Central Park NYC Bird Walks on Saturday & Sunday Sept. 20-21, 2014 Saturday (9/20) Highlights:
Northern Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler Nashville Warbler - Upper Lobe American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Green Heron - 2 at Azalea Pond/Source of the Gill Ruby-throated Hummingbird - continues in good numbers including one less than 3 feet away in Mugger's Woods Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher - very nice looks Iphigene's Walk Red-eyed Vireo House Wren Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher White-throated Sparrow - at least three our first for the season Rose-breasted Grosbeak Matthieu Benoit and I continued birding after lunch adding an Ovenbird and a Veery. In the morning Jacob Drucker and Wolfgang Demisch reported a Belted Kingfisher at the Upper Lobe. ------------ Sunday (9/21) highlights: Black-and-white Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler - west side of Azalea Pond Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 chased by a Ruby-throated Hummingbird at the Gill Overlook Wilson's Warbler - Upper Lobe Yellow-billed Cuckoo - nice looks from every angle at the Upper Lobe Chimney Swifts - we see these regularly but many were quite low because of the weather Ruby-throated Hummingbird - lost count Belted Kingfisher - male at Turtle Pond House Wren Brown Thrasher Deborah Allen, m.ob. (many observers) -- 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/ --
