Registrar: Richard Davis
Participants: 71
Weather: 60–66 F, wind SW 7–10 mph, overcast
Bird Species: 61
Seventy-one participants, including a visitor from California and another from Scotland, gathered under overcast skies for our second-to-last spring-season bird walk. Five groups covered Central Park from Strawberry Fields to the Reservoir, with a heavy focus on the Ramble.
With a Mourning Warbler already reported at the Point, at least one leader led his group there directly. That warbler, a lifer for many, was happily seen by all the groups, as were another ten warbler species in that same location. It was also fun to observe fledgling American Robins and nesting Great Crested Flycatchers and Baltimore Orioles.
Species Lists
Birds
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Canada Warbler
Northern Cardinal
