Central Park NYC Sunday, May 14, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, and many others
Highlights: Fewer birds than earlier in the week but a female Summer Tanager & 15 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May Warbler. Mallard - Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - small flock overhead Herring Gull - flyover Great Black-backed Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond & flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - mouth of the Gill (Jeff Ward) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents including 2 males displaying at Evodia Field with a female nearby Northern Flicker - residents - including excavation of 2 possible nest sites (Andrea Hessel) Great Crested Flycatcher - Swampy Pin Oak/Summer House Meadow Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond (Victor Lloyd & Mark Siegeltuch) Warbling Vireo - west of Iphigene's Walk Blue Jay - residents including pair at nest near Turtle Pond Tree Swallow - flyovers Upper Lobe Barn Swallow - flyovers Turtle Pond & Belvedere Castle Black-capped Chickadee - heard Belvedere Castle Tufted Titmouse - heard west of Evodia Field White-breasted Nuthatch - Gill Overlook Veery - Ramble Wood Thrush - heard east of Summer House American Robin - residents Gray Catbird - residents Cedar Waxwing - flock of around 8 in Tuliptree seen from Warbler Rock House Finch - 2 or 3 Turtle Pond Dock American Goldfinch - south of Azalea Pond (Jeff Ward) Ovenbird - Belvedere Castle & heard elsewhere Worm-eating Warbler - (Jeff Ward & Bob) Northern Waterthrush - Upper Lobe and heard at Azalea Pond Black-and-white Warbler - 7 Common Yellowthroat - 5 to 7 American Redstart - 5 to 7 Cape May Warbler - male south side Turtle Pond (Stefan Passlick) Northern Parula - 5 Magnolia Warbler - 2 (south side Turtle Pond & Summer House (Stefan Passlick)) Yellow Warbler - 3 - 2 females & 1 male - south side Turtle Pond Chestnut-sided Warbler - singing male NE of Summer House Blackpoll Warbler - 3 males Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males (Summer House & south side Turtle Pond) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (female south of Azalea Pond, male south side Turtle Pond) Wilson's Warbler - 2 (female at Oven (Meredith Barges), male on the Point (Kathleen Massey)) White-throated Sparrow Summer Tanager - female in hawthorn w of Maint. Fld bathrooms moved to field east of Maint. Field (Deb) Scarlet Tanager - female Warbler Rock (Jeff Ward) Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - male & female Turtle Pond Common Grackle - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - male Summer House Baltimore Oriole - 10 (fewer than in previous days) Tweet of the day from Adrian Burke: a Bank Swallow at the north end of the Reservoir at 11:43AM. See @BirdCentralPark. 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/ --
