Central Park NYC Saturday May 21, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Bicknell's Thrush, 15 Species of Wood Warblers including Mourning, Tennessee, and Bay-breasted Warblers, Scarlet Tanager. Canada Goose - 4 adults with 9 goslings Willow Rock Mallard - 4 Mourning Dove - 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 in the Ramble Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 female Gill Overlook Double-crested Cormorant - 4 flyovers Great Egret - flyover Green Heron - low flyover Oak Bridge Black-crowned Night-Heron - Oak Bridge Great Horned Owl - continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 pairs Downy Woodpecker - 1 female Tupelo Field Northern Flicker - 1 Ramble Great Crested Flycatcher - pair Gill Overlook Eastern Kingbird - pair Belvedere Castle Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 not Least at the end of the Point Warbling Vireo - at least 3 pairs Red-eyed Vireo - 15-20 Blue Jay - 4 American Crow - 3 Cedar Waxwing - 15-20 Gray Catbird - 5-10 Bicknell's Thrush - 1 singing Upper Lobe, best viewed from the wood chip path Swainson's Thrush - 3-4 Wood Thrush - 2 Tupelo Field/Maintenance Field American Robin - 20-25 White-throated Sparrow - 2 Azalea Pond Eastern Towhee - 1 female Summer House Baltimore Oriole - male Shakespeare Garden Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 4-5 Black-and-white Warbler - 4-6 Tennessee Warbler - 1 uphill from the Boathouse Mourning Warbler - 1 on the Point (Bill Heck) Common Yellowthroat - 5-7 American Redstart - 10-15 Northern Parula - 20-30 Magnolia Warbler - 4-6 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 female Maintenance Field (Bob-6:30am) Yellow Warbler - 1 female Persimmon Slope (Paul Curtis) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (male Source of the Gill, female on the Point) Blackpoll Warbler - 8-10 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3-5 Canada Warbler - 1 male on the Point Scarlet Tanager - 3 (1 male, 2 females) Northern Cardinal - 4-6 -- A Gray-cheeked Thrush was reported at the north end of the Maintenance Field by Jeff Ritter. -- Friday evening a Chuck-will's-widow was recorded calling in the Ramble, the video posted on Twitter by @r2junot https://twitter.com/r2junot/status/1527842603550523393 -- Deb Allen
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