Central Park NYC Saturday May 19, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Moderate rain throughout the morning. Birding was best from the Delacorte Theater along the west side of the Great Lawn to the Pinetum, with insects from a hatch-out at the Pinetum drifting into other areas. Twenty-one Species of Wood Warblers this morning included eight Bay-breasted Warblers and twelve Blackburnian Warblers. Swallows were numerous, especially Barn Swallow (75). Also counted Cliff Swallow (2), Tree Swallow (6), and Northern Rough-winged Swallow (4).
Canada Goose - 5 (4 Great Lawn, 1 Lake) Mallard - 6 Mourning Dove - 3 Warbler Rock Chimney Swift - 50 NE Great Lawn Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Swampy Pin Oak (Ben & Jackie Taylor) Herring Gull - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - top of Oven a.k.a. Chez Armando Empidonax Flycatcher - Pinetum Warbling Vireo - Pinetum Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 2 Swampy Pin Oak Tree Swallow - 6 NE Great Lawn Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4 NE Great Lawn Cliff Swallow - 2 NE Great Lawn Barn Swallow - 75 NE Great Lawn Veery - 3 Ramble Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - residents with nestlings being fed at the Oven (Ben Taylor) Gray Catbird - several pairs American Goldfinch - Gill Overlook (Sandra Critelli) Baltimore Oriole - 4 (3 male, 1 female) Common Grackle - 3 or 4 in Ramble Ovenbird - 5 Northern Waterthrush- 2 (Oven & Swedish Cottage) Black-and-white Warbler - 15 (1 male, 14 female) Nashville Warbler - SW Great Lawn north of Turtle Pond Dock Common Yellowthroat 8 (2 male, 6 female) American Redstart - 10 (2 adult males) Cape May Warbler - 3 adult males (Warbler Rock, NW Great Lawn, Hill west of Boathouse) Northern Parula - 40 (10 adult males) Magnolia Warbler - 25 (13 male, 12 female) Bay-breasted Warbler - 8 (5 male, 3 female) Blackburnian Warbler - 12 (6 male, 6 female) Yellow Warbler - 8 (3 male, 5 female) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 10 (6 female, 4 male) Blackpoll Warbler - 5 (3 male, 5 female) Black-throated Blue Warbler 8 (3 male, 5 female) Pine Warbler - female Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Prairie Warbler - female SW Great Lawn Black-throated Green Warbler - 12 (3 male, 9 female) Canada Warbler - 4, all males Wilson's Warbler - 10 (8 male, 2 female) Scarlet Tanager 2 (male Delacorte Theater, female top of Upper Lobe (Sandra Critelli)) Northern Cardinal - residents in Ramble -- Janet Wooten @Spritelink reported a female Bobolink, a bird that is rare in Central Park, on the east side of the Great Lawn via twitter at 12:35PM. See @BirdCentralPark, maintained by David Barrett, for up-to-the-minute NY County Bird Reports. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
