Central Park NYC Sunday, August 13, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: American Redstart, Northern Waterthrush, Black-and-white Warbler, Yellow Warbler & Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Gadwall - Reservoir (Jeffrey M. Ward - early) Mallard - 7+ Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - 6 Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Egret - Turtle Pond Osprey - flyover Turtle Pond (Jeff Ward) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (adult perched Humming Tombstone, flyover Summer House Meadow (both Jeff Ward)) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 juveniles together just getting red on the crown Tupelo Field, heard elsewhere Downy Woodpecker -2 (Maintenance Field (early), Oven (Mayra Cruz)) Northern Flicker - 4 to 6 Eastern Kingbird - Castle/Turtle Pond Warbling Vireo - 5 (Shakespeare Garden (Tom Walsh), Turtle Pond, Warbler Rock) Blue Jay Barn Swallow - at least 6 (over Turtle Pond & over Summer House area) White-breasted Nuthatch - near Summer House Meadow, heard Maintenance field House Wren - Maintenance Field (Bob - early) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 American Robin - many Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird - flyover at the Oven Cedar Waxwing -4 perched south of Oven, flyover flock of 8 House Finch - 2 Oven Baltimore Oriole - 4 (3 adult males, one hatch-year) Black Cherries ripe now Red-winged Blackbird -2 flyover flocks - southbound Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Gill and Triplet's Bridge - Bob, early) Black-and-white Warbler - 1 or 2 (Oak Bridge (Bob, Mayra Cruz & Deb - early), stream south of Azalea Pond (Jeff Ward) American Redstart - 2 (Summer House Meadow (Sandra Critelli) & stream south of Azalea Pond) Yellow Warbler - 7 Northern Cardinal 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/ --
