Central Park NYC Sunday, August 6, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Six species of Wood Warblers including Blue-winged & Worm-eating Warblers, and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Mallard - 40 (9 Turtle Pond, 31 Reservoir) Mourning Dove - 8 Chimney Swift - 5 or 6 Ring-billed Gull - 3 Reservoir Herring Gull - 16 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 16 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 15 Reservoir & flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - perched near Summer House (Jeffrey M. Ward) Red-bellied Woodpecker - Mugger's Woods (Noa Cruz) Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Summer House Meadow (Gillian Henry) & Humming Tombstone) Northern Flicker - adult male & juvenile Tupelo Field Empidonax Flycatcher - with big eye ring probable Least (Humming Tombstone (Bob - early), Turtle Pond (Jeff Ward - early)) Eastern Kingbird - 6 (4 Turtle Pond, 1 north Reservoir, 1 Summit Rock) Warbling Vireo - 2 Warbler Rock Blue Jay - Azalea Pond Barn Swallow - 6 (6 Great Lawn (Jeff Ward - early), 4 Turtle Pond) Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Humming Tombstone (Sandra Critelli) Tufted Titmouse - 1 or 2 (1 Azalea Pond, 1 Laupot Bridge (Sandra Critelli)) White-breasted Nuthatch - Azalea Pond Carolina Wren - singing Shakespeare Garden (Jeff Ward) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Maintenance Field (Bob - 7am) American Robin - 40+ Gray Catbird - around 10 Northern Mockingbird - Summit Rock Cedar Waxwing - flock of 11 Humming Tombstone (Bob - early), not as many there by 8:20am (Jeff) House Finch - 5 Baltimore Oriole - 3 (hatch-year male Shakespeare Garden (Gillian Henry), ad. male Summit Rock (Deb), ad male Upper Lobe (Bob)) Red-winged Blackbird - flyover flock of around 2 dozen southbound Worm-eating Warbler - Maintenance Field (Deb) Northern Waterthrush - 2 or 3 (Triplet's Bridge (Bob - early, Oven & Laupot Bridge (Sandra Critelli - later)) Blue-winged Warbler - Azalea Pond (Bob - 8am, one at Maintenance Field (1pm tweet by Ryan Zucker), seen later by some of us Black-and-white Warbler - Oven (Sandra Critelli - later) American Redstart - 7 Yellow Warbler - 9 total (Several locations - including one adult male (Bob - early)) Northern Cardinal - several 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/ --
