Central Park NYC - North End Friday August 23, 2024 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Hooded Merganser, 10 Species of Wood Warblers including Worm-eating and Wilson's Warblers, Solitary Sandpiper, Eastern Phoebe. Canada Goose - around 30 Wood Duck - 1 female at the Pool Mallard - 15 Hooded Merganser - 1 first-summer female at Pool (the species is rare in the park in summer) Mourning Dove - 5 or 6 Chimney Swift - 3 flying very low over Nutter's Battery Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Conservatory Garden (Caren Jahre) Solitary Sandpiper - 2 at the Pool Herring Gull - a few flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Harlem Meer Great Blue Heron - 2 Harlem Meer Cooper's Hawk - 1 eating a rat in the Ramble after lunch (thanks Patrick) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 or 2 near Conservatory Garden Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Nutter's Battery Downy Woodpecker - Conservatory Garden Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 at the Pool Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 (2 calling to each other at the Blockhouse (Caren Jahre)) Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 probable Least Flycatcher Lily Ponds Eastern Phoebe - 1 at the Pool Red-eyed Vireo - 2 Carolina Wren - 1 Loch, another heard Gray Catbird - 4 or 5 Northern Mockingbird - 3 or 4 American Robin - around 20 House Finch - 1 male Loch American Goldfinch - 1 male Wildflower Meadow (Scott Brevda) Song Sparrow - 1 Wildflower Meadow Common Grackle - 4 Worm-eating Warbler - 1 at the Pool (Scott Brevda) Northern Waterthrush - 2 at the Pool Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 1 Loch (Scott Brevda) American Redstart - 20-25 Northern Parula - 1 Loch Magnolia Warbler - 2 or 3 at the Loch (Mary Kate Horbac and Caren Jahre) Yellow Warbler - 3 (1 Harlem Meer Island (Paul Curtis), 2 Pool (Caren Jahre) Canada Warbler - 5 Wilson's Warbler - 1 at the Pool Northern Cardinal - 5 -- I you go to the Conservatory Garden to look for hummingbirds, please be advised that the garden is under construction and may be entered from the north and the south sides, but there is no entrance or exit from Fifth Avenue, and it's not possible to cross between the north and south sides. -- 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/ --
