Central Park, NYC Monday, May 22, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, et al Highlights: In spite of the all-day rain, birding in Central Park was very good with 16 Species of Wood Warblers including Blackburnian and Bay-breasted Warblers.
Canada Goose 2 - Turtle Pond Mallard - males chasing females at Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Herring Gull - a few flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - Lake Great Egret - 2 (Lake & Turtle Pond) Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Great Crested Flycatcher - Upper Lobe Warbling Vireo - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Strawberry Fields) Red-eyed Vireo - 10 Blue Jay Gray-cheeked Thrush - 5 Swainson's Thrush - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Ramble) American Robin Gray Catbird House Finch - 2 Strawberry Fields American Goldfinch - 2 east side of Turtle Pond Ovenbird - Strawberry Fields Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - female north side of Azalea Pond Common Yellowthroat - 7 (1 male, 6 females) American Redstart - 12 (10 females, 2 first-spring males) Northern Parula - singing male Strawberry Fields Magnolia Warbler - 25 (5 males, 20 females) Bay-breasted Warbler - female Upper Lobe Blackburnian Warbler - female Upper Lobe Yellow Warbler - 2 (1 male & 1 female) Strawberry Fields Chestnut-sided Warbler - male King of Poland Blackpoll Warbler - 28 (3 males, 25 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 females Black-throated Green Warbler - male King of Poland (David Barrett) Canada Warbler - 4 (3 males, 1 female) Wilson's Warbler - male on the Point Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - male north side Turtle Pond Common Grackle - several in Ramble Baltimore Oriole - 2 (male Humming Tombstone, female in Ramble) 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/ --
