Central Park, NYC Sunday, May 21, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen and many others
Highlights: Summer Tanager, 14 species of Wood Warblers including Bay-breasted and Blackburnian Warblers. Canada Goose - nest on rock between Oak Bridge & Balcony Bridge Mallard - residents Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift Herring Gull - flyovers Great Egret - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults and 3 young Fifth Avenue Nest Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - Shakespeare Garden & Gill Overlook Northern Flicker - pair & lone female Gill Overlook - females displaying Empidonax Flycatcher - Turtle Pond Island (Jeffrey M. Ward) Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 Eastern Kingbird - 2 Shakespeare Garden Warbling Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 8 Blue Jay - residents with 2 active nests Tufted Titmouse - Gill Overlook White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (Gill Overlook, the Point, and Shakespeare Garden) Gray-cheeked Thrush - Summer House (Deb) Swainson's Thrush - Strawberry Fields (Deb) American Robin - residents - several nests near paths & fledgling on the Point Gray Catbird - residents Cedar Waxwing - 4 (David Barrett) House Finch - Evodia Field & Turtle Pond American Goldfinch - 2 males - Turtle Pond Dock Ovenbird - 2 (the Point & heard at Strawberry Fields) (Deb) Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Upper Lobe, Gill Overlook, Summer House Meadow (Deb) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 (1 males, 2 females) Common Yellowthroat - 6 (adult male, first-spring male, 4 females) American Redstart - 12 (10 females, 2 first-spring males) Northern Parula - 13 (12 females, one male) Magnolia Warbler - 15 (including 3 adult males) Bay-breasted Warbler - male King of Poland Blackburnian Warbler - male King of Poland Yellow Warbler - 4 (2 males, 2 females) Blackpoll Warbler - 10 (2 males, 8 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 females (gill Overlook) Canada Warbler - 3 males Wilson's Warbler - female on the Point White-throated Sparrow - 2 (Gill Overlook, Summer House Meadow) Summer Tanager - first-spring male Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench Northern Cardinal - residents (courtship feeding on the Point) Red-winged Blackbird - male Gill Overlook Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - pair Gill Overlook Baltimore Oriole - 6 to 8 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/[email protected]/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/ --
