Central Park NYC Monday August 19, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Least and Solitary Sandpipers, Osprey, Wood Thrush, Wood Warblers. Least Sandpiper is rare for Central Park. Canada Goose - 6 on the Lake, others on the Pond Mallard - many at the Pond Mourning Dove - 40-50 Chimney Swift - 3 or 4 Least Sandpiper - 1 in juvenal plumage at the Pond and adjacent Gapstow Mudflat Solitary Sandpiper - 1 at the Pond and adjacent Gapstow Mudflat Great Blue Heron - 1 adult at the Pond (Betsy Radley) Great Egret - 1 Turtle Pond Green Heron - 1 at the Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Wagner Cove Osprey - 1 flyover Maintenance Field Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Balancing Rock Northern Flicker - 5-7 including some hatch-year birds Great Crested Flycatcher - 6-8 Least Flycatcher - 1 Tupelo Field Red-eyed Vireo - 6-8 Blue Jay - 4 or 5 Carolina Wren - 5 or 6 Gray Catbird - 3 or 4 Northern Mockingbird - 2 (Ramble and the Pond) Wood Thrush - 1 Warbler Rock American Robin - 10-15 Common Grackle - 8-10 Ovenbird - 1 Gill Overlook Northern Waterthrush - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 or 4 American Redstart - 10 Northern Parula - 1 Warbler Rock (Bob - early a.m.) Northern Cardinal - 8-10 -- Deb Allen -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
