Central Park NYC - Ramble Sunday June 26, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Turtle Pond at 9am
Highlights: Jeff Ward spotted a Red-breasted Nuthatch at the Maintenance Field. Red-breasted Nuthatch does not summer in Central Park, and today's Red-breasted Nuthatch represents the park's earliest fall arrival date. We found two Red-breasted Nuthatches yesterday, June 25th, at the NYBG (Bronx), so these birds may also have been very early fall arrivals. A Red-breasted Nuthatch was also reported today from Brooklyn by Tom Preston via twitter. The group found two Black-and-white Warblers, one in Mugger's Woods, the other at the Tupelo Field. This is the latest spring date we know of for Black-and-white Warbler in Central Park. The previous record was June 25, 2006 (spotted by Sandra Critelli on another of our bird walks). One of the birds (female - Mugger's Woods) is likely the bird we saw last week, the other was an adult male still in alternate plumage at the Tupelo Field. It becomes difficult to tell at this time of year whether this new Black-and-white Warbler represents a lingering spring migrant, an early fall migrant or "post-breeding dispersal." The List: Canada Goose - Turtle Pond Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - female with 3 young ducklings, and others Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - adult (Pale Male) and juvenile near Cedar Hill (after walk) Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Great Crested Flycatcher - Tupelo Field (Martin Cuntz), Azalea Pond (Karen Evans) Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond Warbling Vireo - Warbler Rock, the Point Red-eyed Vireo - Tupelo Field, pair Azalea Pond Blue Jay - juvenile fed by adult on the Point Barn Swallow - over Great Lawn (before walk) Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Mugger's Woods Red-breasted Nuthatch - Maintenance Field (spotted by Jeff Ward) White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Azalea Pond House Wren - singing Stone Arch Gray Catbird - 2 adults and 2 fledglings near Boathouse (Carine Mitchell), others elsewhere Cedar Waxwing - Oven Black-and-white Warbler - Mugger's Woods (female), Tupelo Field & Azalea Pond (alternate-plumaged male) spotted by Martin Cuntz Eastern Towhee - heard from Maintenance Field (Bob before walk) Chipping Sparrow - adult bathing at Gill Overlook (Deb before walk) White-throated Sparrow - 2 Northern Cardinal Baltimore Oriole - various locations, many molting House Finch - here & there and nice looks at a hatch-year male at the Oven 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/ --
