Central Park NYC Monday August 16, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Nine Species of Wood Warblers and Great Crested Flycatcher (migrants). Black-billed Cuckoo and Worm-eating Warbler reported. Canada Goose - 8 flyovers Mallard - a dozen Mourning Dove - 20-30 Black-billed Cuckoo - photographed at Maintenance Field (David Barrett)* Herring Gull - 3 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - immature bird near Oak Bridge Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Tupelo field Northern Flicker - 2 Upper Lobe Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 migrants (1 Strawberry Fields, 1 Tupelo Field) Eastern Kingbird - 3 Turtle Pond Warbling Vireo - 2 Ramble Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 5 Carolina Wren - pair Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 30-40 Gray Catbird - 10-20 House Finch - 5 Baltimore Oriole - 5 Common Grackle - 5 Ovenbird - 1 Mugger's Woods near Gill Overlook Worm-eating Warbler - photographed at the Gill (John Anturi - @jhonny_2003) Northern Waterthrush - 2 (1 Ladies' Pavilion, 1 Upper Lobe) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Prothonotary Warbler - continued at various locations including Oak Bridge (a favorite early-am spot) American Redstart - 8 Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 6 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Tupelo Field Canada Warbler - 3 Northern Cardinal - 5-8 *See the Twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark for real-time reports of NY County birds. 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/ --