Going on a tip from Morgan Tingley indicating the Ramble was hopping early this morning, I headed into the park later (around 10:15), just as the sky grew dark and the rain began to fall. After waiting out the downpour at the Maintenance Meadow bathrooms, I spent the next hour and a half amidst a tremendous amount of bird activity in the eastern side of the Ramble. The highlights were many, and the numbers included 24 species of warbler (plus YB Chat), eight species of sparrow, five species of vireo, four species each of flycatcher and thrush, and two tanager species. Full list below:
Double-crested Cormorant Black-crowned Night Heron Canada Goose Mallard Red-tailed Hawk Spotted Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1, giving single "kowlp" notes but no full song (Humming Tombstone) Chimney Swift - 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Maintenance, Oven) Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 Least Flycatcher - 1 Great-crested Flycatcher - 2 Eastern Kingbird - 2 (Strawberry Fields) Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 (Captains Bench) Warbling Vireo - 3 PHILADELPHIA VIREO - 1 - seen very well and singing to eliminate any possible Warbling Vireo misidentification - East side of Maintenance Meadow Red-eyed Vireo - 6 Blue Jay Barn Swallow - 4 House Wren - 2 Veery - 9 Grey-cheeked Thrush - 2 (Oven, Strawberry Fields) Swainson's Thrush - 7 (several singing) Wood Thrush - 3 American Robin Grey Catbird Cedar Waxwing - 7 (Captain's Bench) Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (Maintenance) Tennnessee Warbler - 7 (all between Willow Rock and Captain's Bench, except for one later at Strawberry Fields) Nashville Warbler - 4 Northern Parula - 8 Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 Magnolia Warbler - 12 Cape May Warbler - 2 (Captain's Bench and Point) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Blackburnian Warbler - 4 (Willow Rock, Captain's Bench, Strawberry Fields) Bay-breasted Warbler - 7 (one loose flock of 4 above Willow Rock, singles at Point, Shakespeare Garden, Strawberry Fields) Blackpoll Warbler - 2 Black-and-White Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 3 Worm-eating Warbler - 1 (Upper Lobe - thanks to Morgan) Ovenbird - 8 Northern Waterthrush - 2 MOURNING WARBLER - 2 - 1 female first seen well on slope below Captain's Bench before being scared off by two "gentlemen" pishing at it. It was replaced by a gorgeous male as they chased after her, and he was joined by (presumably the same) female a few minutes later. They foraged near each other for about 15 seconds before they each flew off in separate directions. The same two guys who were pishing at the Mourning were also pishing at the Bay-breasteds high over their heads at Willow Rock...completely unnecessary. Common Yellowthroat - 5 Hooded Warbler - 1 (female - Evodia) Wilson's Warbler - 1 (Point) Canada Warbler - 3 (Point, Evodia, Oven) Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 (continues at Strawberry Fields) SUMMER TANAGER - 1 (adult male seen briefly midway down the Point, near the spraying hose, located after giving a few "Pikky-tikky-tuck" calls Eastern Towhee - 1 Chipping Sparrow - 2 FOX SPARROW - continuing "western-race" bird seen at south end of woodchip path in Strawberry Fields around 11:45AM Song Sparrow - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 (Evodia) Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Oven) White-throated Sparrow - 4 White-crowned Sparrow - 2 (SE corner of Tupelo) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 6 Common Grackle Baltimore Oriole - 4 House Sparrow --Scott Haber -- Scott Haber Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History 79th St. at Central Park West New York, NY 10024 (212)-769-5788 Email: [email protected] -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
