Central Park NYC Monday May 20, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Common Raven, 16 Species of Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 10 Mourning Dove - 60-70 Herring Gull - 7-10 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 4 or 5 Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (adult, immature) Lake Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 1 on the Point Northern Flicker - 3 or 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Swampy Pin Oak (Karen Evans) Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Strawberry Fields (Dan Stevenson) Warbling Vireo - 3 or 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 8-10 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 Common Raven - 2 very vocal birds overhead* Cedar Waxwing - 8 House Wren - 1 Swedish Cottage Gray Catbird - 10-15 Swainson's Thrush - 3 Wood Thrush - 3 or 4 including pair at Maintenance Field American Robin - 40-50 including 2 fledged juveniles House Finch - 3 or 4 Baltimore Oriole - 4 or 5 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 3 or 4 Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 5 9r 6 Tennessee Warbler - 1 singing at the Oven (Bob - early) Common Yellowthroat - 2 or 3 American Redstart - 7 or 8 Cape May Warbler - 1 female Summer House Northern Parula - 3 or 4 Magnolia Warbler - 4 or 5 Bay-breasted Warbler - 4 Yellow Warbler - 3 Blackpoll Warbler - 4 or 5 (mostly females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Strawberry Fields Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Belvedere Overlook (Karen Evans) Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 Canada Warbler - 1 male Strawberry Fields (Caren Jahre) Scarlet Tanager - 1 male singing at Balancing Rock (Bob - early) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- *The young Common Ravens at the Cathedral of St. John the Devine have fledged, and were perched on the building when I visited this afternoon. One of them flew short distances several times in the space of half an hour, perhaps stimulated by an adult that flew around carrying a mouse. Many thanks to Malcolm Morris for letting me know about this nest. -- 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/ --
