Central Park, NYC Friday & Saturday August 20-21, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: 13 Species of Wood Warbler including at least two Prothonotary Warblers, migrant Great Crested Flycatchers. Birds in the list below are from Saturday, unless noted otherwise. Canada Goose - 38 flyovers in two flocks Mourning Dove - 15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Tupelo Field Ring-billed Gull - 4 Reservoir (Friday) Herring Gull - 3-4 flyovers Osprey - male perched at the Green Bench Friday Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3-4 Northern Flicker - 5-7 American Kestrel - 2 Friday Nutter's Battery, 1 flyover Saturday Ramble Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Great Hill Friday, 1 Humming Tombstone Saturday (Karen Evans) Eastern Kingbird - 3 Lake (Karen Evans also reported a family group just south of Hernshead Wednesday) Warbling Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 7 Blue Jay - 3-5 American Crow - heard-only Ramble White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 east of Azalea Pond Carolina Wren - 1 Oven Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Oven American Robin - 20-25 Cedar Waxwing - flock of 8 House Finch - 3 American Goldfinch - 2 (male & female) east side of Great Hill Friday White-throated Sparrow - 3 Indian Cave Baltimore Oriole - 10-15 Common Grackle - 3-5 Ovenbird - 2 Ramble Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Oven Northern Waterthrush - 3-5 Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Oven & Humming Tombstone) Black-and-white Warbler - 5-10 Prothonotary Warbler - at least 2 at 3 locations (Oven, Mugger's Woods near Gill Overlook, Oak Bridge). The bird seen in Mugger's Woods today has the noticeably darker crown of a first-fall bird compared with the other two birds which are males in fall plumage. Common Yellowthroat - 2 North Woods Friday American Redstart - 5-7 Magnolia Warbler - 1 at the Pool Friday Yellow Warbler - 2 (Bow Bridge & the Oven) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3-5 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Friday at the Pool bathing rock Canada Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal - 6-7 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/ --
