Central Park NYC Saturday Apr. 29, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on Bird Walk starting from the Boathouse at 7:30 & 9:00am.
Highlights: 19 species of Wood Warblers including Cape May & Yellow-throated Warblers, adult Red-headed Woodpecker, Veeries, Swainson's, Hermit, and Wood Thrushes. Canada Goose - Turtle Pond Mallard Hooded Merganser - female Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents including 10 at Evodia Field Chimney Swift - 3 Spotted Sandpiper - Turtle Pond (Jeff Ward) Great Black-backed Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 5 turtle Pond & flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Turkey Vulture - 2 flyovers Evodia Field (after lunch) Red-tailed Hawk - adult perched over Humming Tombstone & flyovers Red-headed Woodpecker - adult seen at Humming tombstone & Evodia Field Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 4 Great Crested Flycatcher - Tanner's Spring (Jeff Ward) & Evodia Field Eastern Kingbird - Belvedere Castle Blue-headed Vireo - 5 including 4 between King of Poland & Belvedere Castle Blue Jay - residents Fish Crow - heard Red-breasted Nuthatch - (Stefan Passlick) White-breasted Nuthatch - Azalea Pond (Jeff Ward) House Wren - Ramble & Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - heard Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Tanner's Spring Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20 Veery - Humming Tombstone, Azalea Pond, south of Azalea Pond, Summit Rock Swainson's Thrush - Azalea Pond (Stefan Passlick) Hermit Thrush - Laupot Bridge, Humming Tombstone, Summit Rock/Tanner's Spring Wood Thrush - pair Maintenance Field, another south of Azalea Pond American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - multiple locations House Finch - 3 American Goldfinch - feeders and the Oven Ovenbird - 4 (Humming Tombstone, south of Evodia field, 2 Summit Rock/Tanner's Spring) Worm-eating Warbler - south of Azalea Pond (7:30 walk) Northern Waterthrush - at least 2 (Tupelo Field, Oven) Black-and-white Warbler - 8 Tennessee Warbler - Upper Lobe Nashville Warbler - Upper Lobe Common Yellowthroat - 3 (male at the Point, male Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell), female Shakespeare Garden (Jeff Ward)) Hooded Warbler - male south of Azalea Pond (Matthieu Benoit) American Redstart - 5 all males Cape May Warbler - male Tanner's Spring Northern Parula - at least 20 Yellow Warbler - 10 Blackpoll Warbler - east side Azalea Pond Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 Palm Warbler - 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 75 Yellow-throated Warbler - Tanner's Spring Prairie Warbler - male Upper Lobe Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 (male Turtle Pond, male Captain's Bench, male feeders) Eastern Towhee - (female Humming Tombstone, female s. of Evodia) Chipping Sparrow - 15 lawn south of Tanner's Spring White-throated Sparrows - few White-crowned Sparrow - adult south of Tanner's Spring (thanks to Jordan Spindel) Scarlet Tanager - males Evodia Field (Jeff Ward), Captain's Bench Northern Cardinal - residents Indigo Bunting - male Captain's Bench (Stefan Passlick) Red-winged Blackbird - feeders Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - female Maintenance Field Orchard Oriole - adult male Summit Rock (Jeff Ward) Baltimore Oriole - Evodia Field, Summit Rock (Jeff Ward) Alice Deutsch reported a Magnolia Warbler at the Summer House (Rustic Shelter). 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/[email protected]/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/ --
