Central Park NYC Saturday, August 19, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m. ob.
Highlights: Eleven Species of Wood Warblers including a hatch-year male Mourning Warbler, 2 Worm-eating Warblers, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Blue-winged Warblers, Canada Warblers, etc. Mallard - 8 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - a few Herring Gull - flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - adult male (Pale Male) Balancing Rock Red-bellied Woodpecker - several Downy Woodpecker - female Mugger's Woods Northern Flicker - Maint. Field (Ryan Serio), Oak Bridge, south of Azalea Pond Great Crested Flycatcher - molting adult eating an Eastern Amberwing (dragonfly) at Oak Bridge Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond, Tupelo Field (early) Warbling Vireo - 7 Blue Jay Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee - Belvedere Castle (Bob & Deb - early) White-breasted Nuthatch - Turtle Pond American Robin - many Gray Catbird - around 10 House Finch - Turtle Pond, Warbler Rock Song Sparrow - heard Bow Bridge Baltimore Oriole - at least 8 (1 singing at Turtle Pond, ad. male Oak Bridge (Gillian Henry), ad. male Maintenance Field) Common Grackle - few Ovenbird - 1 or 2 (Maintenance Field & between Maintenance Field & Boathouse) Worm-eating Warbler - 2 (1 Azalea Pond/Evodia Field, 1 Oak Bridge) Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Triplet's Bridge & Balancing Rock) Blue-winged Warbler - 3 or 4 (Maintenance Field, Humming Tombstone, Oak Bridge) Black-and-white Warbler - 7 (2 Turtle Pond, 1 Oak Bridge, 1 Rock Wall (Peter Haskel), 2 Humming Tombstone, ad. male Maintenance Field (Ryan Serio)) Mourning Warbler - hatch-year male Maintenance Field American Redstart - 18-20 (adult males Humming Tombstone & Oak Bridge) Magnolia Warbler - in willow at Willow Rock/Oven Yellow Warbler - 5 (Turtle Pond, Bow Bridge Island, Summer House Meadow, Oak Bridge, Maintenance Field) Chestnut-sided Warbler - Turtle Pond (David Barrett) Canada Warbler - 5 (2 Turtle Pond. 1 Oak Bridge (Ryan Serio), 1 Triplet's Bridge, 1 Maintenance Field) Northern Cardinal - still feeding fledglings Ryan Serio reported a male Wood Duck at the Conservatory Water (Model Sailboat 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/ --
