Central Park NYC Sat., May 13, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, et al Highlights: In today's steady rain birds were sparse with the best spots being the south side of Turtle Pond and the Upper Lobe. Fifteen species of Wood Warblers included Nashville, Black-throated Green, Blackpoll, and Wilson's Warblers.
Canada Goose - nesting Lake Mallard - Lake & Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - Upper Lobe, Lake, & Turtle Pond Great Egret - 2 Turtle Pond & Lake Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 Lake Red-tailed Hawk - Castle Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - male at feeders Northern Flicker - pair Warbler Walk (shore of Lake between Bow Bridge & the mouth of the Gill) Warbling Vireo - 2 singing (Bow Bridge & Boathouse) Red-eyed Vireo - Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench Blue Jays - residents - very active today Veery - Ramble Swainson's Thrush - Weather Station American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents House Finch - 10 Ovenbird - Ramble Worm-eating Warbler - 2 (Upper Lobe & South side Turtle Pond) Northern Waterthrush - Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 4 (2 males, 2 females) Nashville Warbler - south side of Turtle Pond Common Yellowthroat - 2 (male & female south side of Turtle Pond) American Redstart - 4 (2 males, 2 females) Northern Parula - 4 (Upper Lobe & Turtle Pond) Magnolia Warbler - male south side of Turtle Pond Yellow Warbler - 3 (male & female on the Point, male south side of Turtle Pond) Blackpoll Warbler - 2 males south side of Turtle Pond Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (Bow Bridge, Mugger's Woods, s. side Turtle Pond) Yellow-rumped Warbler - female south side of Turtle Pond Black-throated Green Warbler - male Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench Wilson's Warbler - 3 (male on the Point, male & female s. side Turtle Pond) Eastern Towhee - male Ramble White-throated Sparrow - singing Northern Cardinal - residents Common Grackle - residents Baltimore Oriole - 5 (3 males & 2 females) Yesterday (5/12) a flock of 8 Cedar Waxwings flew over the north end of the park (sorry for the omission). The tweet of the day came from Steve Chang who reported a Mourning Warbler at the east end of the Loch this morning. You can search @BirdCentralPark or #birdcp on twitter to see tweets about Central Park and Manhattan birds. 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/ --
