Central Park NYC Saturday & Sunday August 22nd-23rd OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Red-breasted Nuthatch (many), 13 Wood Warbler Species, Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Saturday), Veery (Sunday). Migration has been slow so far, with decent diversity, but fewer individual birds than in a normal August. There were many fewer birds in Central Park on Sunday than on Saturday. Canada Goose - 8 both days Mourning Dove - around a dozen each day Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Maintenance Field Saturday Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Maintenance Field Sat., Shakespeare Garden Sun. Chimney Swift - 15 Tupelo Field Saturday, a few Sunday Great Blue Heron - Oak Bridge Sunday Green Heron - continues at the Pond (Sandra Critelli & Barbara Green) Black-crowned Night-Heron - continues at the Pond (Sandra Critelli & Barbara Green) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 both days (adult & juvenile together at Iphigene's Walk Saturday Downy Woodpecker - 1 Saturday, 2 Sunday Northern Flicker - 5 Saturday, 3 Sunday Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Saturday, 2 Sunday Eastern Kingbird - 2 at Oak Bridge Saturday Least Flycatcher - Tupelo Field Saturday Warbling Vireo - 3 Saturday, 2 Sunday Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Saturday, 3 Sunday Blue Jay - 8 Saturday, 6 Sunday American Crow - 1 calling at the Point Saturday Barn Swallow - 2 flyovers Saturday Red-breasted Nuthatch - 14-18 Saturday, 8-10 Sunday Carolina Wren - 3 Saturday 1 Sunday Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Saturday, 5 Sunday Veery - 1 Laupot Bridge Sunday (1 at Inwood Hill Park Thursday 8/20) Wood Thrush - one or two heard Inwood Hill Park Thursday (8/20) Gray Catbird - 6 both days White-throated Sparrow - 2 Saturday, 1 Sunday (at Laupot Bridge both days) Baltimore Oriole - 3-4 Saturday, 1-2 Sunday Common Grackle - 3 Saturday, 1 Sunday Ovenbird - 4 Saturday, 2 Sunday Northern Waterthrush - 5 Saturday, 2 Sunday Blue-winged Warbler - 7 Saturday, 1 Sunday Black-and-white Warbler - 6 Saturday, 3 Sunday Common Yellowthroat - 1 Saturday, 1 Sunday (both in Shakespeare Garden) American Redstart - 20 (incl. 2 adult males) Saturday, 12 (1 adult male) Sunday Magnolia Warbler - 3 Sunday Yellow Warbler - 1 Saturday, 3 Sunday Chestnut-sided Warbler - a dozen Saturday, 6 Sunday Prairie Warbler - 1 Captain's Bench Saturday Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond both days (Sandra Critelli) Canada Warbler - 2-3 Saturday, 1 Sunday Wilson's Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field early on Saturday Northern Cardinal - 5 Saturday, 6 Sunday Other: Male & immature female Eastern Forktail south side of Turtle Pond both days. Giant Swallowtail at Tupelo Field Saturday (another individual reported in Shakespeare Garden on Sunday via @BirdCentralPark on twitter). Cloudless Sulphur at Maintenance Field Saturday (David Barrett). American Snout south of Tupelo Field Saturday. Great Black Wasp & 2 pairs of mating Eremnophila aureonotata on Virgin's Bower at Tupelo Field. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC For other Manhattan bird reports see the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
