Central Park NYC Friday May 5, 2023 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights on a mostly sunny morning: Spotted Sandpiper, Evening Grosbeak, Prairie Warbler and 8 Other Species of Wood Warblers,
Mute Swan - pair Reservoir Gadwall - 4 Mallard - 10-12 Buflehead - 2 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 8 Chimney Swift - 3 or 4 overhead in several locations Spotted Sandpiper - 1 female at the Pool Ring-billed Gull - 3 or 4 Herring Gull - around 40 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Double-crested Cormorant - 10-12 Great Blue Heron - 1 at the Pool before the walk chased away by Canada Goose (Scott Brevda) Great Egret - flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (Harlem Meer, west end of the Pool) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 or 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 at the Loch Northern Flicker - 2 Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Loch Blue Jay - 6-8 Barn Swallow - 2 Harlem Meer Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 or 3 House Wren - 3 singing Gray Catbird - 4 Northern Mockingbird - 1 near Tennis Courts Hermit Thrush - 4 or 5 Wood Thrush - 1 between Lily Ponds and Blockhouse American Robin - at least 20 Evening Grosbeak - 1 male in elm at the south east end of the Great Hill American Goldfinch - 1 male Wildflower Meadow Chipping Sparrow - 8 Song Sparrow - 1 singing north end Reservoir Baltimore Oriole - 2 males (Wildflower Meadow, Great Hill) Red-winged Blackbird - 7 including 1 female Common Grackle - half a dozen Ovenbird - 2 between Blockhouse and Lily Ponds, others heard Northern Waterthrush - 3 or 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 9 Common Yellowthroat - 1 male west end of the Pool American Redstart - 2 males (Great Hill, Blockhouse) Northern Parula - heard at the Loch Yellow Warbler - 1 female west end of the Pool Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 or 6 Prairie Warbler - 1 male Blockhouse Northern Cardinal - 5-7 -- A Virginia Rail continued at the Loch at the westernmost cutout, mostly hidden. A Worm-eating Warbler and Yellow-throated Warbler were reported at the High Meadow in the North Woods. A White-eyed Vireo continued at the south end of the Reservoir. See @BirdCentralPark on Twitter for additional NY County bird reports. -- 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/ --
