Central Park NYC Thursday May 25, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob Highlights for Thursday: Nesting E. Kingbirds & Cedar Waxwings, Lincoln's Sparrow, Wood Warblers.
Canada Goose - 4 or 5 Mallard - 6-8 Mourning Dove - 15-20 Chimney Swift - 15-20 Herring Gull - 6-8 flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 11 or 12 at around 3:30pm Double-crested Cormorant - 3 or 4 flyovers, 1 perched Great Egret - 2 (Turtle Pond, Lake) Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Upper Lobe Red-tailed Hawk - 3 or 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - pair Top of the Point Northern Flicker - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Summit Rock Eastern Kingbird - pair nesting in Willow Oak at Turtle Pond Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 probable Acadian Flycatcher Tupelo Field (Alexandra Wang) Warbling Vireo - 4 or 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 5 or 6 Blue Jay - 4 or 5 Cedar Waxwing - 5-7, 1 stealing nesting material from Kingbirds Turtle Pond Carolina Wren - 1 Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 8-10 Wood Thrush - 1 singing Evodia Field American Robin - 15-20 House Finch - 4 or 5 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 Oak Bridge Baltimore Oriole - nest completed at Maintenance Field Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5 Common Grackle - 15-20 Ovenbird - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 4 or 5 Common Yellowthroat - 2 or 3 American Redstart - 5-7 Northern Parula - 6-8 Magnolia Warbler - 8-10 Bay-breasted Warbler - 3 (1 male, 2 females) Blackpoll Warbler - 2 or 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 female Persimmon Slope Canada Warbler - 2 males (the Point, Persimmon Slope) Northern Cardinal - 4-6 -- Central Park NYC Friday May 26, 2023 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: 10 Species of Wood Warblers including Bay-breasted Warbler. Canada Goose - 9 Gadwall - 1 male at the Pool Mallard - around a dozen Mourning Dove - 10-12 Chimney Swift - 5 or 6 with some low passes over the Pool Herring Gull - 85 Great Black-backed Gull - 22 Double-crested Cormorant - 9-12 Great Egret - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 circling near compost Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 male Lily Ponds Northern Flicker - 1 north end of Maintenance Field Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 heard (Tanner's Spring, Azalea Pond) Eastern Wood Pewee - 1 at the Pool (Anindya Seng before the walk) Warbling Vireo - several heard, plus nest building at Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Lily Ponds, another heard Blue Jay - 5 or 6, nest outside Conservatory Garden has one large nestling remaining American Crow - 6 on the north side of the Loch Barn Swallow - 2 at the Pool Carolina Wren - heard at the Mount Gray Catbird - 5 or 6 Northern Mockingbird - 1 on lawn near Conservatory Garden American Goldfinch - 2 (male & female) Wildflower Meadow White-throated Sparrow - 2 Loch Baltimore Oriole - 2 males, 1 near a nest just south of the Pool Red-winged Blackbird - 7 (6 males, 1 female) Common Grackle - 8-10, plus an adult with 3 fledglings SW Reservoir Ovenbird - 1 heard at the Loch Northern Waterthrush - 2 or 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 or 4 Common Yellowthroat - 4 American Redstart - 4 Northern Parula - 1 female Loch Magnolia Warbler - 3 or 4 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 male North Woods Blackpoll Warbler - 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Lily Ponds Northern Cardinal - 6-8 - 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/ --
