Central Park NYC Thursday, May 18, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, and many others
Highlights: Numbers and diversity were down today but Bob & the group found 16 Species of Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - pair Turtle Pond Wood Duck - 2 Reservoir (Mayra Cruz) Gadwall - male Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - around 20 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Mugger's Woods Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - pair over Mugger's Woods Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - residents Eastern Wood-Pewee - heard in Ramble Empidonax Flycatcher - Tanner's Spring Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Blue-headed Vireo - Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock (Bob, early morning) Warbling Vireo - pairs Warbler Rock, Maintenance Field, etc. Red-eyed Vireo - 25 Blue Jay - residents White-breasted Nuthatch - Gill Overlook Swainson's Thrush - 2 (Tanner's Spring & Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench) American Robin - abundant residents Gray Catbird - very common residents Cedar Waxwing - flocks of 15 & 25 birds heading south past west side of Reservoir, 2 Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench House Finch - singing Turtle Pond Ovenbird - Upper Lobe Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Turtle Pond & Swampy Pin Oak/Summer House Meadow) Black-and-white Warbler - 6 all females Common Yellowthroat - 5 (males & females) American Redstart - 10 (2 males, 3 first-spring males, 5 females) Northern Parula - 12 (2 males, 10 females) Magnolia Warbler - 25 (10 males, 15 females) Bay-breasted Warbler - 5 (2 males, 3 females) Yellow Warbler - 8 (2 males, 6 females) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (adult male, female) Blackpoll Warbler - 8 (3 males, 5 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (1 male, 3 females) Yellow-rumped Warbler - Shakespeare Garden Black-throated Green Warbler - female Mugger's Woods Canada Warbler - Summit Rock Wilson's Warbler - 4 (3 males, 1 female) Scarlet Tanager - male Azalea Pond (Andrea Hessel) Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - male Locust Grove Indigo Bunting - female Gill Overlook Red-winged Blackbird - male Turtle Pond Common Grackle - residents (nest in Willow Oak at Turtle Pond) Brown-headed Cowbird - male Ramble Baltimore Oriole - 5 (1 male, 4 females) incl. female getting nesting material from grackle nest in Willow Oak at Turtle Pond In the Bronx Monk Parakeets are nesting in lights over the West Farms Bus Depot (DeVoe Ave. & E. 177th Street) near the entrance to the Sheridan Expressway (Bob). Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
