Central Park NYC - Ramble & Turtle Pond Sunday August 15, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: a cold front moving through overnight led to an increase in the number and variety of southbound fall migrants with 14 species of Wood Warblers including Prothonotary, Mourning, and Black-throated Blue Warblers in the Ramble this morning. Canada Goose - 4 Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 20-25 Herring Gull - 1 flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4-5 Downy Woodpecker - 2-3 Northern Flicker - 1 Warbler Rock Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Summer House & Warbler Rock (Erica Rosengart) Warbling Vireo - 1 Summer House Red-eyed Vireo - 1 uphill from Boathouse Cafe Blue Jay - 4-5 Carolina Wren - pair Shakespeare Garden, 1 hatch-year bird Turtle Pond American Robin - 30-40 Gray Catbird - 20-30 Cedar Waxwing - 2-3 including 1 juvenile Upper Lobe White-throated Sparrow - 1 Summer House (brown-and-tan morph) Baltimore Oriole - 7-10 Common Grackle - 4 Ovenbird - 1 Mugger's Woods Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Swampy Pin Oak, north end Maintenance Field) Black-and-white Warbler - 3-5 Prothonotary Warbler - 1 male continued at various locations in the Ramble Mourning Warbler - 1 adult female Tupelo Field (first-of-season) American Redstart - 10-15 Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 1 the the Oven/Willow Rock (Erica Rosengart) first-of-season Yellow Warbler - 1 Persimmon Slope Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males (1 Summer House (Sandra Critelli), 1 west of Iphigene's Walk) - first-of-season Canada Warbler - 7-9 Northern Cardinal - 5-7 Sandra Critelli reported a male Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Shakespeare Garden on Saturday (Aug. 14), early for the species for Central Park. 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/ --
