Central Park NYC Sunday, May 6, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 22 Species of Wood Warblers, including the continuing Kentucky & Prothonotary Warblers, Red-headed Woodpecker, White-eyed Vireo (2), Least Flycatcher, Osprey, and Red-breasted Merganser. See also reports by other birders at the end of our list. Canada Goose - 20 (6 one-week-old goslings & 13 adults Reservoir, 1 Turtle Pond) Wood Duck - male SE Reservoir near gate house Mallard - 6 Reservoir, others Turtle Pond & Lake Bufflehead - 4 Reservoir Red-breasted Merganser - continued at NE Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 5 Mourning Dove - 6 at feeders & residents scattered around Chimney Swift - 4 over Turtle Pond Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Maintenance Field Spotted Sandpiper - Turtle Pond (David Barrett) Herring Gull - 25 Reservoir & flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 23 perched & swimming Reservoir, Turtle Pond & some flyovers Great Egret - 2 (Reservoir & Turtle Pond (Maryls Ray) Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult in willow at the Point Osprey - seen from Warbler Rock (Matthieu Benoit) Red-headed Woodpecker - flying over Evodia Field Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents in several locations Northern Flicker - flew past Summer House Least Flycatcher - Turtle Pond (Ryan Zucker) Great Crested Flycatcher moving from Gill Overlook to the Summer House Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond White-eyed Vireo - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Summer House) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Warbling Vireo - 5 - some paired on territory Blue Jay - residents, a noisy group at Balancing Rock Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 to 4 Turtle Pond Barn Swallow - 4 Turtle Pond White-breasted Nuthatch - Summer House Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 to 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 Veery - 2 Evodia Field (one perched on fence) Swainson's Thrush - 5 Hermit Thrush - 1 or 2 north end of Evodia Field American Robin - residents Gray Catbird -= 10 Cedar Waxwing - 3 or 4 Evodia Field, others in a Pin Oak north of nearby Balancing Rock (Jessica Newman) Eastern Towhee - male Azalea Pond Swamp Sparrow - on the Point White-throated Sparrow - 5 to 10 Baltimore Oriole - 3 (2 males & 1 female) in same tree between Summer House & Laupot Bridge Red-winged Blackbird - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - heard Common Grackle - residents Ovenbird - 8 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Blue-winged Warbler - 3 including a bird with an orange-washed breast at Warbler Rock Black-and-white Warbler - 15 (10 males, 5 females) Prothonotary Warbler - low on the west side of the Point (David Barrett) Nashville Warbler - 3 Kentucky Warbler - adult male on the Point this morning (thanks Al Welby) Common Yellowthroat - 6 American Redstart - 10 (7 males, 3 females) Cape May Warbler - adult male summer House (thanks to Farokh) Northern Parula - 20 Magnolia Warbler - 3 or 4 Blackburian Warbler - 3 males (Mugger's Woods, Summer House & Warbler Rock) Yellow Warbler - 5 or 6 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 or 6 Blackpoll Warbler - 2 males (the Point & King of Poland) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7 including 2 females Palm Warbler - 2 Upper Lobe & slope above the Riviera Yellow-rumped Warbler - a dozen Prairie Warbler - 2 (male Upper Lobe, female Warbler Rock) Black-throated Green Warbler - singing at Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench 7:15am Canada Warbler - 2 males (Summer House & Riviera) Scarlet Tanager - 2 (male Maintenance Field, female Evodia Field) Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - male & female at Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench Indigo Bunting - female Maintenance Field -- A few birds reported by others today: A Hooded Warbler was reported near the Summer House by Neil Emond & others. Xander Vitarelli @xander_vit tweeted a Common Nighthawk near Laupot Bridge early this afternoon. Steve Chang @BrownHdCowbid tweeted a Summer Tanager at Turtle Pond. Blake Evans @evenlake tweeted a Wilson's Warbler at Warbler Rock. -- 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/ --
