Central Park, NYC Tuesday, May 23, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, and many others
Highlights: 15 species of Wood Warblers, including 8 Blackburnian Warblers. Canada Goose - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - residents Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - 6 to 8 Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 3 to 4 Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Upper Lobe Red-tailed Hawk - 2 over Belvedere Castle Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - squirrel occupying flicker nest in Black Locust n. of Gill Overlook, flickers in another tree nearby Eastern Wood-Pewee - Humming Tombstone Traill's Flycatcher* - 2 (Summit Rock & Humming Tombstone)[*silent Willow/Adler flycatcher] Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Mugger's Woods & Azalea Pond) Eastern Kingbird - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Turtle Pond Dock) Warbling Vireo - 2 (Warbler Rock & Maintenance Field) Red-eyed Vireo - 15 Blue Jay - residents Barn Swallow- 2 flyovers Great Lawn Tufted Titmouse - heard Azalea Pond Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2 (Warbler Rock & Ramble) Swainson's Thrush - Humming Tombstone American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents Cedar Waxwing - several flocks House Finch - 4 in cypress at Turtle Pond Ovenbird - 2 (Ramble & Upper Lobe) Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 females Common Yellowthroat - 6 (2 males, 4 females) American Redstart - 20 (5 first-spring males, 15 females) Northern Parula - 3 females Magnolia Warbler - 15 (3 males, 2 first-spring males, 10 females) Blackburnian Warbler - 8 (3 males, 5 females) Yellow Warbler - 3 females Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Blackpoll Warbler - 13 (3 males, 10 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 females Black-throated Green Warbler - 4 (1 male, 3 females) Canada Warbler - 2 males (Turtle Pond Dock, Summit Rock) Wilson's Warbler - female Turtle POnd Dock Scarlet Tanager - male in tuliptree Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - first-spring male Gill Overlook Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - pair in Ramble Baltimore Oriole - 4 (1 male, 3 females) David Barrett tweeted a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher at Humming Tombstone, perhaps the bird at the Upper Lobe that was tweeted by Spencer Galen earlier in the afternoon. An Indigo Bunting was photographed on the fence at the Tupelo Field. Others reported a flock of 15 Cedar Waxwings getting drinks at the Oven. 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/ --
