Central Park NYC Sunday May 1, 2016 Robert DeCandido, PhD & others on a bird walk starting from Turtle Pond at 9am to around noon
The group tallied eight warbler species in spite of the rain. Double-crested Cormorant - adult & immature Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - male & female Shakespeare Garden Blue-headed Vireo - Shakespeare Garden & Ramble Warbling Vireo - singing in the Ramble Ruby-crowned Kinglet - few Hermit Thrush - a few in the Ramble Wood Thrush - Gill Source Gray Catbird - establishing territories Ovenbird - at least 5 Iphigene's Walk, Shakespeare Garden, etc. Northern Waterthrush - Oven Blue-winged Warbler - Azalea Pond Black-and-white Warbler - several Upper Lobe, Humming Tombstone, Turtle Pond, Ramble Common Yellowthroat - male north side of Azalea Pond Northern Parula - Humming Tombstone Blackburnian Warbler - male Humming Tombstone Yellow-rumped Warbler - Turtle Pond, Ramble, etc. Eastern Towhee - male Ramble Chipping Sparrow Upper Lobe Swamp Sparrow - 5 Ramble Rose-breasted Grosbeak - male feeding on elm seeds Gill Source Indigo Bunting - male feeding on elm seeds Maintenance Field Baltimore Oriole - male feeding on oak flowers in the Ramble House Finch - 4 in Bald Cypress at Turtle Pond American Goldfinch - Ramble Deb Allen Wolfgang Demisch reported a Horned Grebe continuing at the Reservoir. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
