[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri., May 17, 2019 - Summer Tanager, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 12 Species of Wood Warblers

2019-05-17 Thread Deborah Allen
Central Park (North End), NYC
Friday, May 17, 2019
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.

Highlights: A slow day, but 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May. 
Other birds: Summer Tanager, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and Least Flycatcher.

Canada Goose - 4 including a nest at NE Reservoir
Gadwall - 2 pairs Reservoir (Bob)
Mallard - 10+
Mourning Dove - 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - west side Wildflower Meadow
Cuckoo - unidentified Nutter's Battery
Chimney Swift - 6-12
Herring Gull - flyovers
Double-creasted Cormorant - 10 Reservoir & flyovers
Great Egret - 2 perched on Meer island & flyovers
Snowy Egret - 6 flyovers
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 overhead adult & molting immature)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Blockhouse & east side of North Meadow Ball fields)
Northern Flicker - 2 North Woods
Eastern Kingbird - pair Harlem Meer (Bob, Bill, Tom, & John - early)
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Lily Ponds
Least Flycatcher - 2 (Blockhouse & Fort Clinton (David Barrett))
Warbling Vireo - 6
Red-eyed Vireo - at least 3
Blue Jay - 6
American Crow - noisy flock of 8
Barn Swallow - 3 flyovers (mixed in with Chimney Swifts)
Veery - Compost Area (Deb - early)
Swainson's Thrush - 3
American Robin - nesting
Gray Catbird - around 20
Eastern Towhee - heard Green Bench
White-throated Sparrow - 2 or 3 along the Loch
Baltimore Oriole - 7 to 10 (not nesting yet)
Red-winged Blackbird - 4 (3 males & female Harlem Meer)
Common Grackle - carrying nesting material at Meer
Ovenbird - 5
Northern Waterthrush - 1 Loch
Black-and-white Warbler - 5
Common Yellowthroat - 4 or 5
American Redstart - 10
Cape May Warbler - 3 (2 males & 1 female Great Hill)
Northern Parula - 20
Magnolia Warbler - 10
Yellow Warbler - 3 or 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Blackpoll Warbler - 3 or 4 including a female
Black-throated Blue Warbler - female - Jug Handle (n. of east side of Pool)
Summer Tanager - 2 males Wildflower Meadow
Northern Cardinal - 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (male & female Blockhouse, female Wildflower Meadow)
Indigo Bunting - female Wildflower Meadow


Deb Allen
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri., May 17, 2019 - Summer Tanager, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 12 Species of Wood Warblers

2019-05-17 Thread Deborah Allen
Central Park (North End), NYC
Friday, May 17, 2019
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.

Highlights: A slow day, but 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May. 
Other birds: Summer Tanager, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and Least Flycatcher.

Canada Goose - 4 including a nest at NE Reservoir
Gadwall - 2 pairs Reservoir (Bob)
Mallard - 10+
Mourning Dove - 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - west side Wildflower Meadow
Cuckoo - unidentified Nutter's Battery
Chimney Swift - 6-12
Herring Gull - flyovers
Double-creasted Cormorant - 10 Reservoir & flyovers
Great Egret - 2 perched on Meer island & flyovers
Snowy Egret - 6 flyovers
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 overhead adult & molting immature)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Blockhouse & east side of North Meadow Ball fields)
Northern Flicker - 2 North Woods
Eastern Kingbird - pair Harlem Meer (Bob, Bill, Tom, & John - early)
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Lily Ponds
Least Flycatcher - 2 (Blockhouse & Fort Clinton (David Barrett))
Warbling Vireo - 6
Red-eyed Vireo - at least 3
Blue Jay - 6
American Crow - noisy flock of 8
Barn Swallow - 3 flyovers (mixed in with Chimney Swifts)
Veery - Compost Area (Deb - early)
Swainson's Thrush - 3
American Robin - nesting
Gray Catbird - around 20
Eastern Towhee - heard Green Bench
White-throated Sparrow - 2 or 3 along the Loch
Baltimore Oriole - 7 to 10 (not nesting yet)
Red-winged Blackbird - 4 (3 males & female Harlem Meer)
Common Grackle - carrying nesting material at Meer
Ovenbird - 5
Northern Waterthrush - 1 Loch
Black-and-white Warbler - 5
Common Yellowthroat - 4 or 5
American Redstart - 10
Cape May Warbler - 3 (2 males & 1 female Great Hill)
Northern Parula - 20
Magnolia Warbler - 10
Yellow Warbler - 3 or 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Blackpoll Warbler - 3 or 4 including a female
Black-throated Blue Warbler - female - Jug Handle (n. of east side of Pool)
Summer Tanager - 2 males Wildflower Meadow
Northern Cardinal - 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (male & female Blockhouse, female Wildflower Meadow)
Indigo Bunting - female Wildflower Meadow


Deb Allen
Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC





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