Central Park NYC Sunday August 5, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 10 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Mourning Warbler & Blue-winged Warbler, Hairy Woodpecker, Wood Thrush. Note: Oddly there were no Red-breasted Nuthatches at the Pinetum today. Canada Goose - very few Reservoir Mallard - 50+ Reservoir, 12 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Shakespeare Garden Laughing Gull - flyover Maintenance Field (Jeff Ward) Herring Gull - 5 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 13 Reservoir, another on the Lake Black-crowned Night-Heron - hatch-year Upper Lobe (Sandra Critelli) Red-billed Woodpecker - residents incl. a hatch-year bird at the Point (Jeff Ward) Hairy Woodpecker - hatch-year bird at Warbler Rock (Jeff Ward) Northern Flicker - residents at 2 locations Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 Warbler Rock, another at the Oven @ 7am Eastern Kingbird - heard several in Ramble (probable family group) Warbling Vireo - 2 Blue Jay - residents Barn Swallow - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - Gill Overlook Wood Thrush - Summer House (Jeff Ward) American Robin - Common residents, many juveniles Gray Catbird - several locations Song Sparrow - the Point (Luke Stoppard) White-throated Sparrow - seen singing at Gill Overlook Baltimore Oriole - 2 Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench, also heard at Reservoir Red-winged Blackbird - female Laupot Bridge Common Grackle - flyover Waterthrush - probably Louisiana at Upper Lobe (dark photo) Blue-winged Warbler - Iphigene's Walk Black-and-white Warbler - male Tupelo Field Mourning Warbler - Tupelo Field (Deb) American Redstart - at least 5 including 2 adult males (Jeff Ward) Northern Parula - west side of Tupelo Field Magnolia Warbler - adult with black streaks at Maintenance Field Yellow Warbler - 12+ Chestnut-sided Warbler - Maintenance Field (Deb) Canada Warbler - 2 males (Swampy Pin Oak, Iphigene's Walk) Northern Cardinal - residents Andrea Hessel reported a flyover Northern Mockingbird at the Tupelo Field. Barbara Green reported a Black-and-white Warbler at the waterfall in Hallett on Saturday (8/4/18). 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/ --
