Central Park NYC Friday May 17, 2024 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Not bad for a slow day. Spotted Sandpiper, Laughing Gull, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Sixteen species of Wood Warblers including Hooded, Bay-breasted, Chestnut-sided, and Black-throated Green Warblers.
In addition: Wolfgang Demisch reported both a male Wood Duck and a male Gadwall continuing at the Reservoir. A male Blackburnian Warbler continued at 91st Street and the West Dive, reported by Gig @Gigpalileo and Suresh @SEaswarNYC. Canada Goose - 14 Mallard - 9 Mourning Dove - 8-10 Chimney Swift - at least 9 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 female at the Pool Laughing Gull - 1 adult Reservoir Herring Gull - around 30 Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Double-crested Cormorant - 6 plus flyovers Great Egret - 9 or 10 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover adult Red-bellied Woodpecker - male north of Wildflower Meadow, others heard Downy Woodpecker - 2 (male and female) Northern Flicker - 1 High Meadow Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Wildflower Meadow Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Children's Glade (Paul Curtis) Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 4-6 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 American Crow - 3 Common Raven - 3 noisy birds over the Great Hill Tufted Titmouse - heard at the Loch Barn Swallow - 1 Harlem Meer Cedar Waxwing - 4-6 House Wren - 1 Gray Catbird - 8-10 Veery - 1 Loch (Paul Curtis) Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - around a dozen House Finch - 5 or 6 White-throated Sparrow - 2 or 3 Baltimore Oriole - heard Red-winged Blackbird - 5 or 6 Common Grackle - 10-12 Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool Black-and-white Warbler - 8 or 9 (all females) Common Yellowthroat - 4 or 5 Hooded Warbler - 1 singing male north of East Blowdown American Redstart - 5 or 6 Northern Parula - 5 or 6 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Bay-breasted Warbler - 5 Yellow Warbler - 3 (Phyllis Newman) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (Li, Dan Stevenson) Blackpoll Warbler - 4 or 5 including 1 female Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 Yellow-rupmped Warbler - 2 High Meadow Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 north of East Blowdown (Kim Sturgis) Wilson's Warbler - 1 at the Pool after lunch (Tom Walsh) Scarlet Tanager - 2 (female Great Hill, male Pool (Scott Brevda)) Northern Cardinal - 5 or 6 -- Thanks everyone for the great bird spotting, Deb Allen -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
