Central Park NYC - Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the Boathouse Cafe at 7:30am & 9:00am
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 19 species of Wood Warblers including Cape May & Connecticut Warblers, and of course, Red-breasted Nuthatches. Not high numbers of birds today, but good diversity. Many birds, including thrushes and tanagers, feeding on fruit in the Tupelo at Tupelo field. Mallard Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo - NE of Balancing Rock (Carine Mitchell & Will Papp) Chimney Swift - 30 overhead at 6:45AM (R. DeCandido before walk) Herring Gull - low flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - hatch-year on the Point Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker - a couple Northern Flicker - 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum) Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo Field Great Crested Flycatcher - Tupelo Field (Carine Mitchell) Warbling Vireo - Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Barn Swallow - fewer than 5 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Upper Lobe Red-bresated Nuthatch - 9 (2 Tupelo Field, 7 Pinetum - Wendy Miller & George Beckwith) White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Oven) House Wren - 4 Carolina Wren - Tupelo Field Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Patty Pike - Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance Field) Veery - more than 10 Swainson's Thrush - a couple in the Ramble American Robin - many on lawns Gray Catbird - usual numbers House Finch - 2 or 3 at Maintenance field Ovenbird - feeders Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Indian Cave, 2 pin pines below Belvedere Castle) Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Connecticut Warbler - Summer House Meadow/Swamp Common Yellowthroat - 5 American Redstart - 20 (including 3 adult males) Cape May Warbler - the Point (6:30am R. DeCandido before walk) Northern Parula - 2 - Humming Tombstone & Ramble Magnolia Warbler - 2 - Pinetum & Oven Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 of these at the Point) Chestnut-sided Warbler - Ramble (Karen Evans) Blackpoll Warbler - adult male still in alternate plumage on the Point Black-throated Blue Warbler - male in the Ramble Palm Warbler - 2 western - Pinetum (Tom Alhf) Pine Warbler - 5 (Pinetum & pines below Belvedere Castle) Prairie Warbler - Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Pines below Belvedere Castle & the Point) Canada Warbler - 3 (Humming Tombstone, 2 at Upper Lobe) Wilson's Warbler - uphill from Boathouse (Peter Haskel) Song sparrow - Summer House Meadow/Swamp Scarlet Tanager - 7 (5 in one tree uphill from the Boathouse) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (Shakspeare Garden, Summer House Meadow/Swamp, Tupelo Field) Red-winged Blackbird - Belvedere Castle Common Grackle - flock of around 125 seen from Boathouse Cafe around 30 feet up & heading north before 7:30 walk Baltimore Oriole - 7 (females and hatch-years) in Tupelo at Tupelo Field Andrea Hessel reported a Hermit Thrush. Adding Tim Healy's Yellow-breasted Chat at the Maintenance Field and Ryan Zucker's Worm-eating Warbler, also at the Maintenanace Field, yields 21 species of Wood Warblers reported in the park today. R. DeCandido saw a Little Brown Bat at Belvedere Castle at 5:45am, but no early morning flyovers of migrating birds. Thanks to Carine Mitchell for the Chilmark chocolates from Martha's Vineyard. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
