Central Park NYC - North End Friday Sept. 23, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Highlights: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (first-of-season), Blue-headed Vireo (2), adult male Cape May Warbler, & Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Gadwall - 20 Meer Mallard - Meer Northern Shoveler - 2 Meer Mourning Dove - migrants - 37 in one tree at the Green Bench Chimney Swift - 30 dipping into water at the harlem Meer (6:45am Bob before walk) Ring-billed Gull - fewer than 10 flyovers Herring Gull - fewer than 10 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 2 flyovers Green Heron - hatch-year at the Pool Red-tailed Hawk - adult low flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - molting adult male Nutter's Battery (FOS) Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 3 American Kestrel - male over Conservatory Garden Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 or 4 Empidonax Flycatcher - along the Loch Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Green Bench & Wildflower Meadow - Bob before walk) White-eyed Vireo - west side of Wildflower Meadow Red-eyed Vireo - 2 (Wildflower Meadow & Blockhouse) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 - Nutter's Battery (7:30am Bob before walk) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Nutter's Battery (7:30am Bob before walk) White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 House Wren - 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 various locations American Robin Gray Catbird - not many Northern Mockingbird - 3 Green Bench Cedar Waxwing - small group Green Bench (around 7:30am Bob before walk) House Finch - 15 American Goldfinch - hatch-year Wildflower Meadow Ovenbird - Lasker Rink Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Pool & North Woods) Common Yellowthroat - 5 American Redstart - 15 (no adult males) Cape May Warbler - adult male Nutter's Batterry Northern Parula - 10 Magnolia Warbler - 3 or 4 Yellow Warbler - Meer Island Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Conservatory Garden Canada Warbler - hatch-year Meer Island Northern Cardinal 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/ --
