Central Park NYC Sunday, July 30, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Two VERY EARLY Bay-breasted Warblers in Shakespeare Garden - a record early date for Central Park, but not for NYC. Also Yellow Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, and American Redstart. Canada Goose - 12 (10 Reservoir, 2 Turtle Pond) Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Mallard - 18 Reservoir, around 20 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Spotted Sandpiper - hatch-year Reservoir (Mayra Cruz) Ring-billed Gull - 9 Reservoir Herring Gull - 22 Reservoir & flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - at lest 24 (23 Reservoir, 1 Turtle Pond, & flyovers) Great Egret - flyover Turkey Vulture - adult 8:37am (seen over Oak Bridge by Mayra Cruz & Deb, over the feeders by Jeffrey M. Ward) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 perched (hatch-year Tupelo Field (Will Schenck) & one-year-old at Summer House Meadow) Red-bellied Woodpecker - male Summer House Downy Woodpecker - 3 (juvenile Azalea Pond, male Iphigene's Walk, Warbler Rock) Northern Flicker - 4 together Maintenance Field Great Crested Flycatcher - at least one (heard south of Azalea Pond, seen Tupelo Field) Eastern Kingbird - 4 (3 Turtle Pond, 1 Reservoir, others heard) Warbling Vireo - 4 (Tupelo Field (Linda Yuen), Iphigene's Walk, Humming Tombstone, Bow Bridge Island) Blue Jay - 2 mobbing Red-tailed Hawk at Tupelo Field Barn Swallow - 3 Reservoir, flyovers Ramble American Robin - many Northern Mockingbird - 2 Reservoir Gray Catbird - many Cedar Waxwing - small flocks in several locations House Finch - Shakespeare Garden & Bow Bridge Island Song Sparrow - 4 (1 Bow Bridge (Signe Hammer), 3 heard at Reservoir) White-throated Sparrow - (early Bob) Baltimore Oriole - 2 Bow Bridge Island Red-winged Blackbird - small flyover flock southbound Common Grackle Black-and-white Warbler - adult female between Laupot Bridge & Summer House (Gillian Henry) American Redstart - 14 Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 VERY EARLY adults molting into basic plumage Shakespeare Garden (Sean Nixon & Jeff Ward) Yellow Warbler - 9 Northern Cardinal Monarch Butterflies arriving yesterday & today. 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
