Central Park NYC Sunday August 25, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Broad-winged Hawk, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Red-breasted Nuthatch*, 11 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May and Blackburnian Warblers. It was heartening to see one of the Great Crested Flycatchers dining on a Spotted Lanternfly. We’ve also seen Yellow-billed Cuckoos and Baltimore Orioles eating these invasive insects. Canada Goose - 25-30 Mallard - 5 Mourning dove - 30-40 Chimney Swift - 3 or 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Tupelo Field Herring Gull - 3-5 flyovers Great Egret - 1 Turtle Pond (David Barrett) Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 or 4 Broad-winged Hawk - 1 perched in the Ramble Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 3 or 4 Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 (at Evodia Field one caught and ate a Spotted Lanternfly) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Evodia Field Warbling Vireo - 1 Locust Grove (Andrea Hessel) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 5-10 Barn Swallow - 5-10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 in 3 locations* Carolina Wren - heard Gray Catbird - 4 or 5 American Robin - 15-20 American Goldfinch - 2 Pinetum Baltimore Oriole - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 1 near Boathouse (Sabina Schumacher) Common Grackle - 10-15 Ovenbird - 1 Tupelo Field Northern Waterthrush - 1 Laupot Bridge (Carl Howard) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthroat - 2 (Bow Bridge, Shakespeare Garden) American Redstart - 7-10 Cape May Warbler - 1 east of Evodia Field Magnolia Warbler - 1 Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench (Alexandra Wang) Blackburnian Warbler - 2 (male and female) Tupelo Field (Paul Curtis) Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Tupelo Field Canada Warbler - 1 Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Northern Cardinal - 7 or 8 -- *We had three Red-breasted Nuthatches on our bird walks today at three different locations. In our experience, when we see these birds in late August, it suggests an irruption year for the species. If we see the first ones in mid-July to early August, we might expect a major irruption. Gus Keri found (and recorded on video) the first migrant RBNUs in the NYC area about ten days ago in Brooklyn. -- 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/ --
