Date: 5/10/25 1:27 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sat. May 10, 2025: Chuck-will's-widow, Olive-sided Flycatcher, 18 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC
Saturday May 10, 2025
OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Chuck-will's-widow, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Olive-sided Flycatcher, 18 Species of Wood Warblers.
Canada Goose - 8
Wood Duck - 4 (3 male, 1 female)
Gadwall - 3 males
Mallard - 10
Mourning Dove - around 50
Chuck-will's-widow - 1 Gill Overlook (first-of-season)
Chimney Swift - 5 or 6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 female on the Point
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Reservoir (Deb-early)
Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 30
Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir
Double-crested Cormorant - 14
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 adult Oven
Great Egret - 1 flyover
Turkey Vulture - 2 flyovers
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 or 6
Downy Woodpecker - 1 or 2 Captain's Bench
Northern Flicker - 1 Ramble
Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 or 5
Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 Top of the Point (Caren Jahre) - early, not a record date
Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Ramble
Warbling Vireo - 3 or 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 6-8
Blue Jay - 4 or 5
American Crow - 5
Barn Swallow - 3 (2 of these perched in and next to old nest)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Weather Station
Gray Catbird - 25-30
Veery - 1 Ramble
Wood Thrush - 3
American Robin - 50-60
Purple Finch - 1 female above the Gill (Deb)
White-throated Sparrow - 15-20
Song Sparrow - 2 singing on territory north Reservoir (Deb-early)
Eastern Towhee - 2 (female Swampy Pin Oak, male Gill Overlook)
Orchard Oriole - 1 second-year male Balancing Rock
Baltimore Oriole - 8-10
Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5
Common Grackle - 20-25
Ovenbird - 10-12
Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Laupot Bridge
Northern Waterthrush - 4
Black-and-white Warbler - 10-12
Tennessee Warbler - 1 singing east of Laupot Bridge (Edmund Berry)
Common Yellowthroat - 3 or 4
American Redstart - 5 or 6
Cape May Warbler - 3 or 4
Northern Parula - 12-15
Magnolia Warbler - 4 or 5
Blackburnian Warbler - 4
Yellow Warbler - 1 female Swampy Pin Oak
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 or 4
Blackpoll Warbler - 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 or 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Ramble (Paul Curtis)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 6 or 7
Canada Warbler - 1 male Captain's Bench
Scarlet Tanager - 5 or 6
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3
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Deb Allen
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