Central Park NYC Thursday August 17, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow- and Black-billed Cuckoos, Osprey, White-throated Sparrow, Ten Species of Wood Warblers including Worm-eating, Hooded, and Cape May Warblers. Canada Goose - 14 Mallard - 11 Mourning Dove - 24-30 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - heard in Ramble Black-billed Cuckoo - Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock (Caren Jahre) Chimney Swift - 6-10 Herring Full - 6-8 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond Osprey - 1 circling over Turtle Pond & Great Lawn Red-tailed Hawk - 1 immature Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Northern Flicker - 1 in the Ramble Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Shakespeare Garden Eastern Kingbird - 1 Belvedere Castle Deck Warbling Vireo - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Upper Lobe) Red-eyed Vireo - 8-10 Blue Jay - 8-10 American Crow - heard in Ramble Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Turtle Pond Dock Barn Swallow - 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Summer House, Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock) Carolina Wren - 4 Gray Catbird - 12-16 Northern Mockingbird - 2 north end of Maintenance Field American Robin - 25-35 House Finch - 4 or 5 White-throated Sparrow - 3 Laupot Bridge Baltimore Oriole - 8-10 including 2 adult males Common Grackle - 4 or 5 Ovenbird - 2 (Summer House, Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock) Worm-eating Warbler - 2 (Warbler Rock, east side of Azalea Pond) Northern Waterthrush - 1 Triplet's Bridge Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Ramble) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Hooded Warbler - 1 hatch-year female Maintenance Field American Redstart - 6-8 Cape May Warbler - 2 Shakespeare Garden Yellow Warbler - 2 in Ramble Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (Maintenance Field, Ramble) Scarlet Tanager - 3 Northern Cardinal - 6-9 -- 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/ --