Central Park NYC Saturday, August 13, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Hermit Thrush, Eight Species of Wood Warblers including Worm-eating & Magnolia Warblers. Canada Goose - 2 Turtle Pond Mallard - 9 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 14 Chimney Swift - 9 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Lake seen from Balcony Bridge Herring Gull - a few flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Humming Tombstone Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2-3 Downy Woodpecker - 5 at least 3 of which were hatch-year birds Northern Flicker - 4-6 including at least 2 hatch-year birds Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (uphill from the Boathouse, Shakespeare Garden) Eastern Kingbird - heard Turtle Pond Empidonax Flycatcher - briefly seen Turtle Pond island Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 including adult feeding juvenile at Maintenance Field Blue Jay - 4-6 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Bob & Deb - early) Carolina Wren - 2 Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 6-8 Hermit Thrush - east of Swampy Pin Oak - very early but not a record date for fall American Robin - 18 House Finch - 2 or 3 Truplet's Bridge American Goldfinch - 1 east of Belvedere Castle Baltimore Oriole - Belvedere Castle Common Grackle - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Ovenbird - 1 Tupelo Field Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 or 4 American Redstart - 7-10 (no adult males) Magnolia Warbler - 2 (Swampy Pin Oak & Maintenance Field) Yellow Warbler - 3 Canada Warbler - 4 or 5 Northern Cardinal - 8 including a couple of begging juveniles -- Phyllis Newman reported a Sora at Balcony Bridge on Wednesday, August 10th - very early for fall. Caren Jahre photograhed a Black-billed Cuckoo at the North End today. See @Bird CentralPark, a.k.a. the Manhattan Bird Alert, on twitter for many other noteworthy birds found in Central Park today. -- 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/ --
