Central Park NYC Monday April 30, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: First-of-Season Eastern Wood-Pewee, 9 species of Wood Warblers including Prairie and Black-throated Blue Warblers, and Chimney Swifts in a flock of 25-30. Note: the feeders weren't visited, so numbers of some common birds like Red-winged Blackbirds, American Goldfinches, and House Finches are lower than usual.
Canada Goose - 3 pairs (Turtle Pond & Lake) Northern Shoveler - Pair Lake (late) Mallard - 6 (Turtle Pond & Lake) Mourning Dove - a dozen Chimney Swift - flock of 25-30 low over Turtle Pond Spotted Sandpiper - Ladies Pavilion Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - flyover flock of 6 (Nancy Shamban) Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - east side of Lake a.k.a. Warbler Walk Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - Ladies Pavilion (David Barrett) following a report by M. Rymkiewicz Red-tailed Hawk - adult circling over the west side Belted Kingfisher - flying down the west side of the park Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 pairs in Ramble Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - pair continues on the west side of the Ramble American Kestrel - adult male Strawberry Fields Eastern Wood-Pewee - first-of-season Maintenance Field Eastern Phoebe - Turtle Pond (David Barrett) (late) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - residents House Wren - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Ramble) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 7 (males & females) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25-30 Veery - 8 Hermit Thrush 8 Wood Thrush - Swampy Pin Oak area American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - 6 including a pair just south of Balcony Bridge House Finch 2 singing at Maintenance Field American Goldfinch - Upper Lobe Eastern Towhee - 4 (males & females) Ramble Chipping Sparrow - 2 Maintenance Field Song Sparrow - 2 (Turtle Pond & the Lake) Swamp Sparrow - south of Ladies Pavilion White-throated Sparrow - 40 Orchard Oriole - adult male SW Maintenance Field Baltimore Oriole - 2 adult males Maintenance Field Red-winged Blackbird - 12-15 (Oven & Turtle Pond) Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (2 females, 1 male) Common Grackle - Oven Ovenbird - 2 Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 7 (including 2 females) Northern Parula - 3 adult males (Ladies Pavilion & Oven) Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 males, 1 female) Black-throated Blue Warbler - adult male Strawberry Fields (Carine Mitchell) Palm Warbler - 10-12 "Yellow" Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20-25 (males & females) Prairie Warbler - 2adult males (Ladies Pavilion and the Point) Northern Cardinal - residents Pat Pollock told us about an Eastern Meadowlark that had been seen on the Great Lawn today. Signe Hammer reported 2 Bufflehead, a male Wood Duck, 4 Gadwall, 4 American Coots, and Barn, Northern Rough-winged, and Tree Swallows at the Reservoir on Sunday (4/29). Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC For NY County tweets see @BirdCentralPark; Bronx County @BronxBirds; Kings County @BirdBrklyn; Queens County @BirdQueens -- 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/ --
