Central Park NYC Sunday, September 17, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Red-headed Woodpecker (first-of-season), Blue-headed and Philadelphia Vireos, Cape May and 9 other species of Wood Warblers including 30-35 Northern Parulas, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and the tip of the Brown Thrasher iceberg. Canada Goose - heard Mallard - a few on Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 8 Locust Grove, a few at the top of the Point Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Summer House Meadow/Swampy Pin Oak (Sandra Critelli) Chimney Swift - 18 together over Maintenance Field Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 (Oven, Point, Maintenance Field) Herring Gull - flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Turtle Pond (Deb & Bob - early a.m.) Red-headed Woodpecker - hatch-year at Locust Grove (Jeffrey M. Ward) Red-bellied Woodpecker - Locust Grove (Jeff Ward) Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Locust Grove, King of Poland*) Northern Flicker - male on the Point (2 reported later at Azalea Pond by Carine Mitchell) American Kestrel - low flyover Locust Grove (Jeff Ward) Eastern Wood-Pewee - Locust Grove Blue-headed Vireo - 1 or 2 north end of Iphigene's Walk (FOS) Philadelphia Vireo - Willow Rock Warbling Vireo - west side of Turtle Pond or Great Lawn (Jeff Ward) Red-eyed Vireo -4 (Iphigene's Walk, 2 Summer House Meadow, Oven) Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Iphigene's Walk White-breasted Nuthatch - Boathouse Cafe (Deb - 7:25a.m.) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Gill Overlook Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (Jeff Ward) Swainson's Thrush - Shakespeare Garden Wood Thrush - north end of Evodia Field (Bob & Deb 7:20a.m.) American Robin - summer residents still around Gray Catbird - 1 or 2 in most locations Brown Thrasher - 3 (west side Azalea Pond, Summer House Meadow (Diane DelVecchio), Upper Lobe) others 6:40am Cedar Waxwing - flock north end of Maintenance Field (Karen Evans) White-throated Sparrow - Ramble Baltimore Oriole - adult male Locust Grove (spotted by Jordan Spindel) Northern Waterthrush - 2 Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - hatch-year male Tupelo Field (Peter Haskel) American Redstart - 8 including an adult male at Gill Overlook (Linda Yuen) Cape May Warbler - 4 or 5 (King of Poland (Jeff Ward), Turtle Pond nr dock, Great Lawn (Karen Evans), 1 or 2 Locust Grove) Northern Parula - 30-35 Magnolia Warbler - 7 Yellow Warbler - 3 (Mugger's Woods, Upper Lobe, King of Poland) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Iphigene's Walk Pine Warbler - 3 or 4 Shakespeare Garden (Jeff Ward & Wendy Miller) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (1 Turtle Pond (Karen Evans), 2 females Locust Grove (Andrea Hessel), 1 Oak Bridge), another reported later at Azalea Pond by Carine Mitchell -- Jordan Spindel, leading a walk for young birders, tweeted a Tennessee Warbler at the Oven at 11:57am. David Barrett tweeted a Common Nighthawk over the Great Lawn at 3:19pm Barbara Green reported a Wood Thrush seen Thursday (Sept. 14) at the waterfall in Hallett. For Manhattan twitter alerts see @BirdCentralpark (#birdcp) maintained by David Barrett. *Location note: King of Poland refers to the area near the statue of King Jagiello of Poland east of Turtle Pond. Deborah 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/ --
