Central Park NYC - Ramble & Turtle Pond Sunday, August 12, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a warm, muggy morning: Black-throated Green Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Ovenbird & five additional Wood Warbler Species, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (10), and Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Canada Goose - 7 Lake Mallard - 6 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - Balancing Rock Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 in shade at Upper Lobe near Jewelweed Chimney Swift - 4 together over Maintenance Field Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 2 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Turtle Pond (Andrea Hessel) Red-bellied Woodpecker - Balancing Rock Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Turtle Pond & Oak Bridge) Hairy Woodpecker - Iphigene's Walk (Vicki Seabrook) Northern Flicker - 4 Tupelo Field Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Maintenance Field & Tupelo Field) Eastern Kingbird - Warbler Rock Warbling Vireo - Warbler Rock Blue Jay - several White-breasted Nuthatch - near Boathouse Carolina Wren - pair (singing male & female songs) Balancing Rock Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 10 (6 together Balancing Rock (Sandra Critelli)) American Robin - many Gray Catbird - at least 10 including 3 juveniles American Goldfinch - male Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - 2 (Oak Bridge (Bill Perro), Turtle Pond (Andrea Hessel)) Common Grackle Ovenbird - 2 (Warbler Rock (Vicki Seabrook), Iphigene's Walk (Deb) Northern Waterthrush - 4 Blue-winged Warbler - west of Azalea Pond (Deb) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 10 including 4 adult males Magnolia Warbler - Iphigene's Walk (Ginny de Liagre) Yellow Warbler - near Boathouse (Bill Perro), Shakespeare Garden (Andrea Hessel) Black-throated Green Warbler - worn after-hatch-year female Gill Overlook (Deb) Canada Warbler - 3 or 4 Northern Cardinal - still singing Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --