Central Park, NYC Sunday, August 8, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: A slow day for migration, with only four species of Wood Warblers and one Ruby-throated Hummingbird, but Olive-sided Flycatcher arrived in the park.
Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - around a dozen Chimney Swift - 4 high overhead Ruby-throated Hummingbird - female/hatch-year Shakespeare Garden Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 4 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Lake Great Egret - 1 flyover Lake Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 6 Eastern Kingbird - 2 Turtle Pond Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 east of Azalea Pond - first-of-season for Central Park Warbling Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 in the Ramble Blue Jay - 3 Carolina Wren - 2 Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 25-35 Gray Catbird - 10-20 Northern Mockingbird - 1 east of Maintenance Field buildings House Finch - 7 Baltimore Oriole - 5 Red-winged Blackbird - 3 Turtle Pond Common Grackle - 2 Ovenbird - 3 south of Balancing Rock in the Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 3 American Redstart - 7 Yellow Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal - 7 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/ --
