Central Park NYC Sunday June 6, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Cedwar Waxwing, American Redstart, Northern Parula. Canada Goose - 8 Wood Duck - 2 males turtle Pond (Deb - early) Mallard - 6 Mourning Dove - 18 Chimney Swift - 6-10 Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Great Blue Heron - low flyover near Belvedere Castle Great Egret - Lake Barred Owl - continued - unprecedented in summer for the location Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - Ramble Great Crested Flycatcher - pair summer House Eastern Kingbird - 1 of pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - heard Weather Station Warbling Vireo - 3 (1 Belvedere Castle, pair Upper Lobe) Red-eyed Vireo - 2 in Ramble Blue Jay - a few American Crow - heard Black-capped Chickadee - Evodia Field (feeder location) White-breasted Nuthatch - male Mugger's Woods American Robin - 20-30 Gray Catbird - 6-8 Northern Mockingbird - Belvedere Castle Cedar Waxwing - 6-10 House Finch - 3 White-throated Sparrow 3 Mugger's Woods Baltimore Oriole - 5 Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Common Grackle - 5-10 incl. juvenile fed by adult on the lawn next to Turtle Pond (Deb - early) American Redstart - 3 Northern Parula - singing male - best looks at Willow Rock Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- At the Maintenance Field we found butterflies, a Red-banded Hairstreak and a female Spring Azure, with a Question Mark at Oak Bridge. Eastern Calligrapher, a kind of Syrphid Fly, was common this morning in open areas of the Ramble. -- A Prothonotary Warbler was reported at the Pool at the north end of Central Park late this afternoon via David Barrett's Manhattan Bird Alert @Bird CentralPark on twitter by @SEaswarNYC -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
