Central Park NYC Saturday August 26, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights for a day with serious early-morning rain: Good Numbers of Great Crested Flycatchers (10-12) and Ovenbirds (5-7), with 10 Species of Wood Warblers. Spotted Lanternflies were on the menu this morning for a Great Crested Flycatcher and Northern Cardinal, while a Gray Catbird caught a Spotted Lanternfly in flight at Maintenance Field on Thursday. Canada Goose - 11 Mallard - 6 Mourning Dove - 35-40 Black-billed Cuckoo - heard Tupelo Field (seen by E. J. Bartolazo at Azalea Pond) Chimney Swift - 5 or 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Tupelo Field, Shakespeare Garden) Herring Gull - a few flyovers Cooper's Hawk - hatch-year female Top of the Point Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 or 2 Tupelo field Downy Woodpecker - 2 Maintenance Field Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 10-12 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Shakespeare Garden Emipdonax Flycatcher - probable Acadian Shakespeare Garden Warbling Vireo - 2 or 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 to 6 Blue Jay - 8-10 American Crow - 2 or 3 heard Barn Swallow - 4-6 Cedar Waxwing - 3 or 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Oven/Willow Rock Carolina Wren - 4 Gray Catbird - 8-10 Veery - 3 Wood Thrush - 1 Tupelo Field American Robin - 30-35 House Finch - 2 Maintenance Field White-throated Sparrow - 2 Ramble Baltimore Oriole - 1 hatch-year male Maintenance Field Common Grackle - 7-10 Ovenbird - 5-7 Northern Waterthrush - 2 Shakespeare Garden next to Swedish Cottage Black-and-white Warbler - 3 or 4 Common Yellowthroat - 1 female south side of Turtle Pond (Bob - early) American Redstart - 6-8 (including 2 adult males) Cape May Warbler - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 1 south side of Turtle Pond Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 or 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female east of Azalea Pond Canada Warbler - 3 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/ --