Central Park NYC - North end Thu.-Fri. Aug. 03-04, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Four species of Wood Warblers & Red-eyed Vireo feeding Brown-headed Cowbird. Friday's birds unless otherwise noted: Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 10 Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 flyovers Great Blue Heron - hatch-year at the Meer (Thursday) Great Egret - perched at the Meer & flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - circling overhead Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker - 4 Eastern Kingbird - 2 Green Bench Warbling Vireo - 5 Red-eyed Vireo - feeding Brown-headed Cowbird at the Loch (early on Thursday - Bob) Blue Jay Barn Swallow - 2 low over the Wildflower Meadow before it rained White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Loch & Blockhouse) American Robin - many Gray Catbird - many Cedar Waxwing - flock of 8 including juveniles south side of Great Hill House Finch - 3 (1 adult & 2 juveniles Great Hill) American Goldfinch - male south side of the Meer Chipping Sparrow - adult Wildflower Meadow (Bob - early) Song Sparrow - singing Conservatory Garden Baltimore Oriole - 3 hatch-year Brown-headed Cowbird - fed by Red-eyed Vireo (Thursday) Common Grackle Northern Waterthrush - 1 Loch (3 Thursday - 1 Loch, 2 west side of the Pool) Black-and-white Warbler - walk up to the Great Hill from the east side of the Pool (jug-handle area) American Redstart - 7 (2 on Thursday) Yellow Warbler - 5 (2 on Thursday) Northern Cardinal - pairs 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/ --