Central Park, NYC Friday, September 10, 2021 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Cape May, Blackburnian, & Prairie Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Osprey.
Canada Goose - 23 Gadwall - 14 Mallard - 25-30 Mourning Dove - 5 Ring-billed Gull - a few on the Reservoir Herring Gull - around 2 dozen Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 7 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 adult Harlem Meer island Osprey - 1 Conservatory Garden (Patricia Klein) Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (2 adults, 2 juveniles) (Patricia Klein) Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard Downy Woodpecker - 1 Loch Northern Flicker - 2-4 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Loch (Alison Schondorf) Eastern Kingbird - 2 Great Hill Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 6 or 7 Blue Jay - 4, others heard Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Great Hill American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 5-6 Northern Mockingbird - 4 American Goldfinch - 2 males Wildflower Meadow Common Grackle - 3 Northern Waterthrush - heard at the Pool Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Great Hill Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 6 including 2 adult males Cape May Warbler - 1 west side of Great Hill (Dan Stevenson) Northern Parula - 1 male Lily Ponds Magnolia Warbler - 2 (Pool & Loch) Blackburnian Warbler - 1 westernmost rustic bridge Loch Yellow Warbler - 1 Harlem Meer island Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 including an adult male east side of the Great Hill (Karen) Scarlet Tanager - 1 adult male east side of the Great Hill Northern Cardinal - 4 -- Insects: Spotted Lanternfly near the glacial erratic north of the Pool (squished) Dog-day Cicada below eye-level on coneflower at the Loch Wandering Glider laying eggs in the Conservatory Garden fountain Widow Skimmer, Green Darner - several of each Female Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Conservatory Garden Hackberry Emperor basking at Lily Ponds Unidentified Fritillary flushed by lawn mower next to plant nursery Monarch - half-a-dozen Sachem (skipper) many Great Black Wasp, Blue-winged Wasp (Scolia dubia), Great Golden Digger Wasp, Four-toothed Mason Wasp, European Paper Wasp Locust Borer (beetle) -- 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/ --
