Central Park NYC Wednesday May 4, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Turtle Pond at 9am until around noon.
Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - San Remo bird on the west side of the Ramble Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker - pair Upper Lobe White-eyed Vireo - Strawberry Fields wood chip path - before walk Blue-headed Vireo 5 to 7 the Point, Upper Lobe, etc. Warbling Vireo - singing at Maintenance Field Black-capped Chickadee - pair Gill Overlook Tufted Titmouse - Humming Tombstone House Wren - 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 7 (male & females) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 Veery - 2 - Turtle Pond and Ramble Hermit Thrush - few Wood Thrush - Maintenance Field & Ramble (spotted by Mary Logan) Gray Catbird - few Ovenbird - 3 Worm-eating Warbler - Upper Lobe Northern Waterthrush - Upper Lobe, Oven, Turtle Pond Blue-winged Warbler - top of Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 8 (6 males) Nashville Warbler - Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Common Yellowthroat - male Shakespeare Garden before the walk American Redstart - female Swampy Pin Oak (spotted by Manny Vara) Northern Parula - five males - Upper Lobe, the Point, Warbler Rock Cape May Warbler - female continues at the Oven Palm Warbler - 2 The Point Yellow-rumped Warbler - few, mostly females Prairie Warbler - 2 males Warbler Rock and the Point Black-throated Green Warbler - occasionally singing the Point, Oven, and Upper Lobe, Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Eastern Towhee - singing male Mugger's Woods Song Sparrow - 2 in the cut at the Point Swamp Sparrow - along the Gill Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5 in the Ramble Brown-headed Cowbird - few Orchard Oriole - female in oak flowers between Swampy Pin Oak & Warbler Rock Baltimore Oriole - male top of the Upper Lobe (spotted by Mary Logan) House Finch - feeders andin cypress at Turtle Pond American Goldfinch - few Yesterday's Lincoln's Sparrow continues at the Upper Lobe per Tom Ahlf. 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/ --
