Central Park NYC Sunday April 29, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Black-billed Cuckoo, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 10 species of Wood Warblers including Blackburnian, Worm-eating, and Prairie Warbler. Many fewer birds than two days ago, but an increase in the number of Chipping Sparrows and Ruby-crowned Kinglets.
Canada Goose - 2 Turtle Pond Mallard - males chasing females Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 15 (8 at feeders) Black-billed Cuckoo - Maintenance Field Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Upper Lobe Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 2 flyover flocks totaling around 50 birds Great Egret - 2 (1 Turtle Pond, 1 flyover) Black-crowned Night-Heron - Ladies Pavilion (thanks to Stefan Passlick) Red-tailed Hawk - Maintenance field Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - drumming at Summer House American Kestrel - hovering SE of Maintenance Field Blue-headed Vireo - 7 (4 at Turtle Pond) Blue Jay - still in small, noisy groups Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Turtle Pond Barn Swallow - 1 Turtle Pond House Wren - 2 (Upper Lobe & Shakespeare Garden) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 6 or 7 (4 at the Point, 2 at Upper Lobe) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20 Veery - 1 Ramble Hermit Thrush - 20 Wood Thrush - 3 American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - 2 or 3 House Finch - 10 at feeders American Goldfinch - 20 Eastern Towhee - 3 (2 males at feeders, 1 female) Chipping sparrow - 25 (a dozen on Cedar Hill, 8 at Triplet's Bridge) Song Sparrow - Turtle Pond Dock Swamp Sparrow - 1 Tupelo field White-throated Sparrow - 20 Dark-eyed Junco 2 or 3 at Tupelo Field Orchard Oriole - adult male Maintenance Field Baltimore Oriole - adult male Maintenance Field Red-winged Blackbird - 10 Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (1 male, 2 females) Common Grackle - 14 Ovenbird - 2 (Turtle Pond Dock & top of Oven (Sandra Critelli)) Worm-eating Warbler - south of Azalea Pond (thanks to Ryan Zucker) Northern Waterthrush - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 10 Northern Parula - male Upper Lobe Blackburnian Warbler - Ladies Pavilion (Linda Yuen) Yellow Warbler - 5 Palm Warbler - 10 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20 Prairie Warbler - 2 (Ladies Pavilion & Oven) Northern Cardinal - residents Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
