Despite the chilly, windy weather, visiting UK birder Richard Bircham and I still had a very productive morning in the Ramble and vicinity, with 21 species of warbler and 4 species of vireo being the highlights. A full list is below:
Double-crested Cormorant Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 (Upper Lobe) Canada Goose Mallard Common Moorhen - 1 (continuing between Point and Boathouse) Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker - 1 Great-crested Flycatcher - 1 (Strawberry Fields) Least Flycatcher - 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 (very vocal and visible, at base of path up to Warbler Rock near Willow Rock) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Warbling Vireo - 2 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay Barn Swallow - 5 House Wren - 3 Veery - 3 Wood Thrush - 2 American Robin Gray Catbird European Starling Blue-Winged Warbler - 2 (Maintenance Meadow, Evodia Field) Tennessee Warbler - 1 (Captain's Bench) Nashville Warbler - 2 (Tupelo, Azalea Pond) Northern Parula - 10 Yellow Warbler - 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (Willow Rock, Warbler Rock) Magnolia Warbler - 11 (numbers increasing daily over the last week) Cape May Warbler - 1 (Captain's Bench) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 9 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Blackburnian Warbler - 4 (Maintenance Meadow, Evodia, Tupelo) Prairie Warbler - 1 (Strawberry Fields) Blackpoll Warbler - 5 Black-and-White Warbler - 6 American Redstart - 4 Ovenbird - 7 Northern Waterthrush - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 4 Wilson's Warbler - 1 (Point) Canada Warbler - 2 (Point, Warbler Rock) Swamp Sparrow - 1 White-throated Sparrow - 4 White-crowned Sparrow - 1 (Strawberry Fields) Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (Strawberry Fields) Northern Cardinal Common Grackle Baltimore Oriole - 6 American Goldfinch House Sparrow Others reported: Bay-breasted Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler --Scott Haber -- Scott Haber Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History 79th St. at Central Park West New York, NY 10024 (212)-769-5788 Email: [email protected] -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
