Date: 4/24/26 5:30 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. April 24, 2026: Veery, Field Sparrow, Wood Warblers, Scarlet Tanager
Central Park - North End, NYC
Friday April 24, 2026
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Chimney Swift, Veery, Purple Finch, Field Sparrow, Baltimore Oriole, 10 Species of Wood Warblers (see list), Scarlet Tanager. Benny Romero reported Yellow-throated Vireo, Nashville and Blue-winged Warblers at the North End.
Farther south in the park a White-eyed Vireo continued in and near Strawberry Fields along with a Baltimore Oriole and Gray Catbird, and a first-spring male Summer Tanager visited the Azalea Pond and Laupot Bridge in the Ramble.
More Central Park bird reports at @BirdCentralPark and @mbalerter on "X" maintained by David Barrett.
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Canada Goose - 18
Mallard - 7
Green-winged Teal - 4 (2 males, 2 females) continue at the Pool
Mourning Dove - 7 or 8
Chimney Swift - 1 over the Pool (Mary Kate Horbac)
American Herring Gull - a few flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant - 3 or 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 adult Harlem Meer Island
Green Heron - 1 Loch
Great Egret - 1 flyover Harlem Meer
Osprey - 1 or 2 fishing at Harlem Meer (Caren Jahre)
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (Claire Buyens)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (Children's Glade and Lily Ponds (Paul Curtis))
Downy Woodpecker - heard
Northern Flicker - 2 or 3
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 10-12
American Crow - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 1 Loch
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 5-7 (Pool (Kate Wodell) and Harlem Meer)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 17-20
Brown Creeper - 1 (after lunch at Azalea Pond)
Gray Catbird - 2 (Conservatory Garden and Loch (Caren Jahre)
Northern Mockingbird - 1 Harlem Meer
Veery - 2 (East Blowdown (Kate Wodell), Great Hill)
Hermit Thrush - 14 (at least that many in the Ramble later)
American Robin - 15-20 with several nests
House Finch - 4 or 5 west side of the Lake after lunch
Purple Finch - 2 males Loch, others at the Gill in the Ramble
American Goldfinch - 2 Meer and Pool (Brad Miles), others at the Loch
Field Sparrow - 1 Loch
White-throated Sparrow - 20-25
Song Sparrow - 1 stream between Harlem Meer and Loch
Swamp Sparrow - 6
Eastern Towhee - 3 or 4 Blockhouse, a female at Azalea Pond later
Baltimore Oriole - 1 male Harlem Meer (Phyllis Newman, Judith McCaffrey)
Red-winged Blackbird - 8-10
Common Grackle - 6-8
Ovenbird - 2 (near High Meadow (Claire B.), Great Hill (Paul Curtis)
Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 (Loch and Pool)
Northern Waterthrush - 13
Black-and-white Warbler - 5 or 6 (Caren Jahre)
Northern Parula - 1 male Blockhouse
Yellow Warbler - heard-only High Meadow, another at Turtle Pond (R. DeCandido)
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 singing male Lily Ponds (Scott Brevda)
Palm Warbler - 3 "Yellow" (Claire Buyens, Dan Stevenson)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9 or 10
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 adult males (Lily Ponds, Blockhouse)
Scarlet Tanager - 1 adult male near Blockhouse
Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5
