Central Park NYC - North End Friday May 20, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Gadwall - pair Meer Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers Great Egret - flyover Snowy Egret - 2 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - Duck Island in Meer Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Herring Gull - flyover Great Black-backed Gull - flyover Black-billed Cuckoo - Blockhouse (found by Bruno Boni) Chimney Swift - 6 Meer Red-bellied Woodpecker - pairs North Woods & Meer Downy Woodpecker - North Woods Northern Flicker - male North Woods Olive-sided Flycatcher - Blockhouse (found by Jeff Ward) Eastern Kingbird - 1 at Meer Great Crested Flycatcher - North Woods Warbling Vireo - one or two pairs Red-eyed Vireo - Loch & Blockhouse Barn Swallow - 4 Meer Black-capped Chickadee - Green Bench House Wren - probably nesting east of Blockhouse, heard at Green Bench Veery at least 2 Swainson's Thrush - several Wood Thrush - 2 males singing along the Loch American Robin Gray Catbird - many Brown Thrasher - Wildflower Meadow (Bob before the walk) Cedar Waxwing - 6 flyovers Ovenbird - 2 Northern Waterthrush - Loch Black-and-white Warbler - 1 male, 5 females Common Yellowthroat - 10 American Redstart - 7 including 2 adult males Northern Parula - 1 male, 5 females Magnolia Warbler - many Blackburnian Warbler - female Blockhouse Yellow warbler - 5 (males & females) best spot along the Meer Chestnut-sided Warbler - total 7 - male & females Blackoll Warbler - few (males & females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 all female Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 all female Canada Warbler - 2 Loch Song Sparrow - 2 Conservatory Garden Scarlet Tanager - male at termite hatch-out North Woods Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 females seen North Woods east of Blockhouse, others heard squeaking Red-winged Blackbird - female Meer Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - female Baltimore Oriole - 5 (4 males & 1 female) Green Bench, pairs elsewhere House Finch - 2 Wildflower Meadow 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/ --