Central Park NYC - North End Friday, June 2, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, and many others
Highlights: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, flyover Black Vultures, confirmed nesting of Northern Flickers, and five species of Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - Harlem Meer Gadwall - Harlem Meer (Mayra Cruz around 8:45am) Mallard - Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - 5 Green Bench Chimney Swift - 6 taking drinks and gathering nesting material Harlem Meer Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Egret - Harlem Meer & flyovers Snowy Egret - flyovers of small groups Green Heron - flew in from NE and landed at the Pool (Bob 7:45am) Black-crowned Night-Heron - Loch (Bob early a.m.) Black Vulture - 2 flying south over the High Meadow Red-tailed Hawk - over Blockhouse (Mayra Cruz) Red-bellied Woodpecker - along the Loch Downy Woodpecker - pair west end of Loch, possible nest Wildflower Meadow Northern Flicker - confirmed breeding - adult carrying fecal sac above the Loch Eastern Wood-Pewee - west side of Wildflower Meadow (Bob early a.m.) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - south of Green Bench (David Barrett), re-found later by Stefan Passlick Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 (Conservatory Garden, High Meadow, below Fort Clinton) Eastern Kingbird - in Honeylocust at Harlem Meer Warbling Vireo - several pairs (Nutter's Battery, 110th Street, heard elsewhere) Red-eyed Vireo - 5 or 6 (pair south of Blockhouse (found later at NE Great Hill), 3 to 4 elsewhere) Blue Jay - residents White-breasted Nuthatch - High Meadow (Tom Ahlf) House Wren - 2 (West end Wildflower Meadow (Bob early a.m.), singing at Green Bench) American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents European Starling - juveniles around Cedar Waxwing - 6 Meer Island & flyover flock Wildflower Meadow House Finch - heard American Goldfinch - 8 (1 male & 2 females Nutter's Battery, 5 west end of Loch) Common Yellowthroat - female Fort Clinton American Redstart - first-spring male North Woods east of High Meadow Northern Parula - 2 females North Woods (Bob early a.m.) Blackpoll Warbler - male SE Great Hill Wilson's Warbler - female east Wildflower Meadow (Mayra Cruz) Song Sparrow - singing Conservatory Garden Red-winged Blackbird - 8 (3 adult females, 3 adult males, 2 first-spring males - all at the Harlem Meer) Common Grackle - various locations Brown-headed Cowbird - male Wildflower Meadow, heard elsewhere Baltimore Oriole - pairs 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/ --
