Central Park NYC Sunday, August 19, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob
The weather was cooler than Saturday's and cloudy with bouts of mist and light rain, and there were many fewer birds than on Saturday. Highlights: 8 Species of Wood Warblers including Ovenbird, Blue-winged and Canada Warblers. Also: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Spotted Sandpiper, Green Heron, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Great Crested Flycatcher, and many Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. Mallard - 18 Mourning Dove - 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 or 2 (Balancing Rock & Upper Lobe) chimney Swift - 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Gill Overlook & Upper Lobe) Spotted Sandpiper - 2 (Turtle Pond & Upper Lobe) Herring Gull - 7 Reservoir & flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 8 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - (4 Reservoir, 1 Turtle Pond) Great Blue Heron - hatch-year Turtle Pond Green Heron - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - molting into adult plumage Turtle Pond Belted Kingfisher - heard only (Deb - early) Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Top of the Oven (Chez Armando), Upper Lobe) Northern Flicker - heard Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 (Top of the Point, Tupelo Field) Great Crested Flycatcher - 3-4 (2 Top of the Point, 1 Tupelo Field, 1 Summer House(Karen Evans)) Red-eyed Vireo - Oven (Karen Evans) Blue Jay - Chez Armando Barn Swallow - 4 flyovers (3 Reservoir, 1 Tupelo field (Andrea Hessel)) White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Chez Armando Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 19 American Robin Gray Catbird - 10-11 Cedar Waxwing - 4 in Black Cherry east of Upper Lobe White-throated Sparrow - Tupelo Field Baltimore Oriole - 10 including 3 adult males Red-winged Blackbird - heard Turtle Pond Common Grackle - at least 70 most of these in 2 flocks Ovenbird - Shakespeare Garden Northern Waterthrush - top of the Point/Oven Blue-winged Warbler - Oven Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Upper Lobe) American Redstart - 20 including 3 adult males Yellow Warbler - 2 (Oven & Summer House) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 12 Canada Warbler - Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - ad. male fed juv. Tupelo Field, ad. & 3 juvs. Top of Oven 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/ --
