Central Park NYC Thursday April 28, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Turtle Pond at 9am until around 12:30pm.
Canada Goose - 2 Turtle Pond Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - with crests Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 Turtle Pond, 1 eating a fish at the Point (Jeff Ward) Chimney Swift - over the Upper Lobe Belted Kingfisher - female Turtle Pond Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - female Shakespeare Garden Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Blue-headed Vireo - Upper Lobe, Shakespeare Garden Warbling Vireo - Upper Lobe Common Raven - 2 together flyover Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 over the Lake White-breasted Nuthatch - the Point House Wren - Upper Lobe Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - several Upper Lobe Ruby-crowned Kinglet - still many Hermit Thrush Louisiana Waterthrush - very nice looks atTriplet's/Balcony Bridge Northern Waterthrush - the Point, Laupot Bridge, Upper Lobe (7:30am) Blue-winged Warbler - Upper Lobe (Patty Pike) Black-and-white Warbler - several locations Swainson's Warbler - Strawberry Fields (tweeted by Alice Deutsch at 7:25AM) Nashville Warbler - Upper Lobe (7:30am) American Redstart - Upper Lobe, Gill Overlook Northern Parula - singing male south of Evodia (Jeff Ward) Yellow Warbler - the Point (Jeff Ward) Chestnut-sided Warbler - Upper Lobe (Bob before the walk) Palm Warbler - Wagner Cove Yellow-rumped Warbler - still many Eastern Towhee - heard several locations Chipping Sparrow - Upper Lobe, Humming Tombstone Swamp Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird House Finch - singing Purple Finch - female Upper Lobe American Goldfinch - singing Jeffrey Ward reported an American Kestrel perched on the AMNH before the walk. Sorry if I've left anything out - that Swainson's Warbler was a real distraction. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
