Central Park NYC Tuesday May 3, 3016 Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on a bird walk starting from Turtle Pond from 6pm to around 7:45pm
Despite the light drizzle the group found some nice birds. Gadwall - male Turtle Pond, flew north Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Spotted Sandpiper - Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - pair at Oven Downy Woodpecker - pair at feeders Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - male Shakespeare Garden Blue-headed Vireo - 2 at the Point, 1 Upper Lobe Black-capped Chickadee - pair top of the Point fed peanuts by hand Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Holly near Gill Overlook Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 Veery - Turtle Pond Wood thrush - 2 total (singing) one of them just up the hill from the Boathouse Gray Catbird - a few Ovenbird - 3 total - 1 Holly near Gill Overlook, otherse elsewhere Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Upper Lobe & Oven) Black-and-white Warbler - Holly near Gill Overlook Northern Parula - 2 Holly near Gill Overlook Palm Warlber - 3 Holly near Gill Overlook Yellow-rumped Warbler - a few Eastern Towhee - 5 (all singing) Lincoln's Sparrow - the group's FOS Upper Lobe Swamp Sparrow - 2 along the Gill Raccoon family at Upper Lobe. Tom Socci reported a Black-throated Green Warbler, 2 Indigo Buntings, and a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Sorry for the late post, Deb Allen -- 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/ --
