Central Park NYC - North End Sunday June 12, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Highlight: Am. Redstarts & late Black-and-white Warbler. The list includes some birds seen before the walk. Canada Goose - pair with 3 goslings & others Reservoir (Deb before walk), Meer Gadwall - pair NE Reservoir (Deb before walk), 2 males & 1 female Meer Mallard - Meer Double-crested Cormorant - around 20 Reservoir (Deb before walk), flyovers Great Egret - flyovers (Andrea Hessel) Snowy Egret - flyovers mostly in groups of 3 (Andrea & Carine) Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Reservoir (Deb before walk) Herring Gull - low numbers Reservoir (Deb before walk) Great Black-backed Gull - low numbers (Deb before walk) Chimney Swift - overhead here & there (Carine Mitchell) Red-bellied Woodpecker - female Loch (Andrea Hessel) Downy Woodpecker - Meer, Loch Northern Flicker - 2 females displaying Wildflower Meadow Great Crested Flycatcher - Loch, HighMeadow/Lily Ponds Eastern Kingbird - display flight at Grassy Knoll (Deb before walk) Warbling Vireo - singing & seen several locations Red-eyed Vireo - pairs continue High Meadow & Great Hill Blue Jay White-breasted Nuthatch - heard Meer Wood Thrush - 2 males heard at Loch American Robin Gray Catbird - some singing Northern Mockingbird - north of Reservoir (Deb before walk) Black-and-white Warbler - female Lily Ponds (tweeted earlier by J. B. Russell at N. entrance Ridge Trail) American Redstart - female Conservatory Garden, imm. male singing at Lily Ponds Song Sparrow - pair with singing male Conservatory Garden Norther Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - at least 2 males at the Meer Brown-headed Cowbird - male SE of Nutter's Battery Baltimore Oriole - male & female SE of Nutter's Battery, female carrying food at Blockhouse (Carine Mitchell) House Finch - female - Meer (Carine M.) American Goldfinch - 3 SE of Nutter's Battery Sol Shamilzadeh reports that one of Pale Male's fledgings fell into the Conservatory Water (model boat pond) and was rescued by police and taken to the Wild Bird Fund. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
