Central Park, NYC Saturday May 14, 2022 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Today was an improvement over yesterday in terms of both the weather and numbers of birds, but still slow for mid-May. The best spot for us today was the Point. Highlights in taxonomic order: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Great Crested Flycatcher, 12 Species of Wood Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Canada Goose - pair with 4 goslings Bow Bridge (David Barrett) Wood Duck - 2 males at the Oven Mallard - 2 or 3, plus some ducklings at the Conservatory Water (Scott Brevda - just after the walk) Mourning Dove - 15-20 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 adult Ramble* Chimney Swift - 8-10 Ring-billed Gull - 10-15 Herring Gull - around 50 Double-crested Cormorant - 8-10 Great Egret - 1 Lake Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 on the Point Great Horned Owl - continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Tupelo Field Downy Woodpecker - 2 Laupot Bridge Northern Flicker - 2 Tupelo Field Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Tupelo Field Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Warbling Vireo - 5-8 Red-eyed Vireo - 8-12 Blue Jay - 4-6 American Crow - 2 or 3 bothering Great Horned Owl Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 Shakespeare Garden Cedar Waxwing - 7-10 House Wren - 1 Summer House Gray Catbird - 8-10 Veery - 1 Tanner's Spring (Deb - early) Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - 10-20 House Finch - 2 females in Ramble White-throated Sparrow - 5-10 Eastern Towhee - 1 male Balancing Rock Baltimore Oriole - 4-6 (1 female, the rest males) Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 8-12 Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Oven & Ramble) Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - female uphill from Boathouse Cafe Northern Parula - 8-10 Magnolia Warbler - 1 male on the Point (Paul Clark) Yellow Warbler - 2 on the Point Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 on the Point (Mark Siegeltuch) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 male Tupelo Field Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 or 4 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 males (Point, Summer House) Scarlet Tanager - 1 male (moved from west of Persimmon Slope to Balancing Rock) Northern Cardinal - 4-6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 male Tupelo Field -- *Following up on a tweet from @EdwardGaillard. -- Deb Allen
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