Central Park NYC Thursday, May 24, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Mourning Warbler. A Common Nighthawk (continuing female) chased by an Eastern Kingbird, a late Field Sparrow, and a continuing Green Heron.
Canada Goose - 4 (2 flyovers, 2 Turtle Pond/Great Lawn) Mallard - 5 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 9 Evodia Field feeders Common Nighthawk - female feeding over East Drive & Turtle Pond, chased by Turtle Pond resident E. Kingbird (Bob - 5:15am), roosting later at Maintenance Field. Chimney Swift - 6 over Turtle Pond, one chased by the resident Eastern Kingbird (Bob - 5:15am) Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 or 2 females (Summer House & Laupot Bridge) Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested cormorant - 5 flyovers Green Heron - Upper Lobe Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 Turtle Pond (5 others 59 St. Pond (S. Critelli)) Red-tailed Hawk - adult East 74th Street Red-bellied Woodpecker - pair at Tupelo Field Downy Woodpecker - pair at Oak Bridge Northern Flicker - 2 (female Upper Lobe, male Warbler Rock) Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 heard in Ramble Empidonax Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher - pair Oak Bridge to Warbler Rock Eastern Kingbird - 2 Turtle Pond (see Common Nighthawk & Chimney Swift) Warbling Vireo - 4 (pair Turtle Pond, pair Oak Bridge) Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - pair collecting nesting material Turtle Pond (Bob - 5:15am) Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Turtle Pond (Bob - 5:15am) Barn Swallow - 4 Turtle Pond (Bob - 5:15 am) White-breasted Nuthatch - Evodia Field feeders House Wren - Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Upper Lobe Veery - singing in Ramble Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - residents, many nesting, juvenile at Tanner's Spring (Deb) Gray Catbird - pairs in Ramble Northern Mockingbird - Tupelo Field (1pm Deb with Ethan Goodman) Cedar Waxwing - a dozen flyovers American Goldfinch - 2 females Upper Lobe Field Sparrow - Tanner's Spring (Deb 3:37pm), late for Central Park, not a record date Baltimore Oriole - 4 pairs in the Ramble Red-winged Blackbird - 3 (2 males Turtle Pond, male bathing at Oven (Deb)) Common Grackle - 5Ovenbird - 1 in Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Swampy Pin Oak & Upper Lobe) Black-and-white Warbler - 5 (4 females, 1 first-spring male) Mourning Warbler - prob. first-spring male giving partial songs Swedish Cottage Common Yellowthroat - 3 females American Redstart - 7 (females and immature males) Northern Parula - 8 (2 males, 6 females) Magnolia Warbler - 8 (2 males, 6 females) Yellow Warbler - 7 (2 males, 5 females) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 females (Swampy Pin Oak & Shakespeare Garden) Blackpoll Warbler - 13 (3 males, 10 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 females Scarlet Tanager - female Tanner's Spring (Deb 4:26pm) Northern Cardinal - residents, nest in Shakespeare Garden appears abandoned Indigo Bunting - male Tanner's Spring (Deb around 3:40pm & later) -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
