Central Park NYC Saturday June 1, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Mourning Warbler and Eight Other Species of Wood Warblers. At lunchtime today three Mourning Warblers and a Blackburnian Warbler were reported in Bryant Park. ( https://twitter.com/mbalerter/status/1796948737241104585 ) Canada Goose - 19 Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - 6:05am) Mallard - 20 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Herring Gull - 19 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Double-crested Cormorant - 11 Great Egret - 2 Reservoir - Deb - 6:45am) Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Downy Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Northern Flicker - pair plus one Great Crested Flycatcher - pair Tupelo Field Eastern Kingbird - 1 Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Azalea Pond Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 (Ramble, Turtle Pond) Warbling Vireo - 1 Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 including pair collecting nesting material Tufted Titmouse - 1 continuing in the Ramble Barn Swallow - 5 or 6 with 2 birds sitting on nests Gray Catbird - 6-8 Wood Thrush - 2 singing in Ramble American Robin - 30-40 House Finch - 10-15 (adults and juveniles) Song Sparrow - 4 (3 singing) Baltimore Oriole - 2 males and active nest Red-winged Blackbird - 5-7 Common Grackle - 10-15 including adult feeding young at Maintenance Field Black-and-white Warbler - 2 females Ramble Mourning Warbler - 1 male top of the Point Common Yellowthroat - 2 (male, female) Belvedere Castle American Redstart - 2 Ramble Northern Parula - 2 (Swampy Pin Oak, Balancing Rock) Magnolia Warbler - 3 or 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Belvedere Castle Blackpoll Warbler - 3 females Canada Warbler - 2 (King of Poland (Bob - early), Weather Station) Northern Cardinal - 9 or 10 -- 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/ --