Central Park, NYC Thursday, June 1, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, and many others
Highlights: 10 Species of Wood Warblers including Mourning Warbler, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, and 8-12 Great Crested Flycatchers. Canada Goose - pair Turtle Pond Gadwall - male Turtle Pond Mallard - residents Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - female Turtle Pond Dock (nesting???) Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - flew in to Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - flyover (Nell Semel) Downy Woodpecker - not many pairs (many dead branches cut in oaks by tree-trimming crews) Northern Flicker - 2 pairs (Gill Overlook & Riviera) Eastern Wood-Pewee - Humming Tombstone Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - Upper Lobe (David Barrett) Great Crested Flycatcher - 8 to 12 (at least 5 together in Honey Locust at Humming Tombstone, pairs in Ramble) Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond, nest in Willow Oak almost finished Warbling Vireo - in Honey Locust at Humming Tombstone Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - residents Northern Rough-winged Swallow - pair Turtle Pond Barn Swallow - 6 over Great Lawn Tufted Titmouse - heard near Evodia Field feeders American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents Cedar Waxwing - 11 (1 collecting nesting material n. side Maintenance Field, 4 Turtle Pond, 6 flyovers) House Finch - 8 Turtle Pond Dock Northern Waterthrush - song heard Turtle Pond Black-and-white Warbler - female Weather Station Mourning Warbler - male Riviera Hill Common Yellowthroat - first-spring male singing Shakespeare Garden (seen earlier by John Day) American Redstart - 5 (1 first-spring male, 4 females) Northern Parula - male Shakespeare Garden (early morning Bob) Magnolia Warbler - Upper Lobe (Patty Pike) Yellow Warbler - Turtle Pond Dock Blackpoll Warbler - female Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock (early morning Bob) Canada Warbler - 2 females (Warbler Rock, Castle Walk) Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - male Turtle Pond Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 males Humming Tombstone Baltimore Oriole - pair NE Maintenance Field, 2 pairs Turtle Pond 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/ --
