Central Park NYC Monday August 26, 2024 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: A bit slow today - Green Heron, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Black-throated Blue and other Wood Warblers.
Canada Goose - 29 Mallard - 9 Mourning Dove - 25-30 Chimney Swift Herring Gull - a few flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 at the Pond Green Heron - 1 at the Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Azalea Pond Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 Great Crested Flycatcher - 4-6 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Hernshead Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 Maintenance Field Warbling Vireo - 1 Hernshead (Karen Evans) Red-eyed Vireo - 6 or 7 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Carolina Wren - 1 Riviera Gray Catbird - 6-9 Veery - 4 or 5 American Robin - around 20 House Finch - 2 Strawberry Fields Baltimore Oriole - 1 young male Laupot Bridge Common Grackle - 5 or 6 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Gapstow mudlfat Common Yellowthroat - 1 female Gapstow mudflat American Redstart - 12 Magnolia Warbler - 2 Azalea Pond Yellow Warbler - 1 Summer House Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (2 males and 1 female (Caren Jahre) Laupot and Gill Overlook) Canada Warbler - 1 Summer House Northern Cardinal - 8-10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 Laupot -- On the subject of Red-breasted Nuthatches: It's so nice to have our efforts to keep track of these birds in NYC noticed, but why did Mr. Fiore headline his post "Red-breasted Nuthatch occurrence in N.Y. City, summer 2024". Then later in the body of the post, in a classic bit of bait and switch, refer to these reports as coming from "around N.Y. City". How many counties would that encompass? Here is what Bob and I can find on eBird for the 5 boroughs of NYC: --- There are no reports of RBNUs in NYC for June 2024. There are two reports of RBNUs from Brooklyn in July 2024 (both from Greenwood Cemetery) - and zero reports from anywhere else in NYC. In August 2024, reports regarding RBNUs have come in from four boroughs (Staten Island has no reports), and the majority (>80%) have come in since 23 August (less than five days ago). There are about 20-25 total reports. As we look over the ebird reports from Central Park, we note that several of the reports from Sunday (25 August), came from people on our bird walk! These birds are often in deciduous trees at this time of year, and are much more difficult to find now than they will be later in the season. However, they are very social birds and will respond to calls. In any case, it's likely that we will see an irruption, with nice numbers of these birds downstate this fall and winter, although we do not expect it to be a major irruption. --- Looking forward to the next cold front, 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/ --
