Central Park, NYC Saturday August 7, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: 8 Species of Wood Warblers today including Louisiana Waterthrush and Blue-winged Warbler. Uptick in warbler numbers, especially for Yellow Warbler and Northern Waterthrush. Canada Goose - a dozen Wood Duck - male on Turtle Pond Thursday Aug. 5 (Bob) Mallard - 19 Mourning Dove - 18 Chimney Swift - 6 Herring Gull - around 20 Double-crested Cormorant 13 Great Blue Heron - flyover Lake Barred Owl - struck and killed by a Central Park Conservancy maintenance vehicle at around 2:30am Friday Aug. 6 (see the NY times and the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark twitter feed for details). Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 including 2 juveniles Downy Woodpecker - 3 including 1 juvenile Northern Flicker - 4 Least Flycatcher - reported and photographed by Scott Dunn at Turtle Pond Eastern Kingbird - 4 Turtle Pond & Great Lawn Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Warbling Vireo - 7 including begging juveniles at Turtle Pond and Summer House Blue Jay - 4 American Crow - 6 flyovers Barn Swallow - 4 Carolina Wren - 2 Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 25-35 Gray Catbird - 15-20 House Finch - 5-8 (Ryan Serio) Baltimore Oriole - 5 including 2 adult males Red-winged Blackbird - 10-15 Common Grackle - 3 Ovenbird - 1 across the path from Persimmon Slope Louisiana Waterthrush - Triplet's Bridge (reported there earlier by Alice Deutsch) Northern Waterthrush - 6 Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Iphigene's Walk Black-and-white Warbler - 5 American Redstart - 6 Northern Parula - 1 at the Oven Yellow Warbler - 14 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Gapstow Bridge on Thursday Aug. 5 (Bob) Northern Cardinal - 7 including juveniles 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/ --
