Date: 5/1/26 1:20 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. May 1, 2026: Am. Redstart, Blue-winged, Nashville, Prairie, and Other Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC
Friday, May 1, 2026
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cool, sunny morning: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Eastern Kingbird, Warbling Vireo, 10 Species of Wood Warblers including American Redstart, Blue-winged, Nashville, Prairie, and Other Warblers. Numbers of migrants were low overall.
Canada Goose - 10
Mallard - 13
Mourning Dove - 7 or 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Loch
American Herring Gull - a few flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Harlem Meer, 10-12 flyovers
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 adult Island Harlem Meer
Great Egret - 5 flyovers
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults circling over 5th Avenue
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Eastern Kingbird - 1 flyover Harlem Meer
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Warbling Vireo - 1 Harlem Meer
Blue Jay - 4
American Crow - heard
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4 at the Pool
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5
Northern House Wren - 1 between Loch and Wildflower Meadow
Gray Catbird - 3
Veery - 1 Loch (Scott Brevda)
Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3 (Pool and Loch)
American Robin - 8-10
House Finch - 7 Bald Cypress at the Pool (Paul Curtis)
American Goldfinch - 2 males Pool (Paul Curtis)
White-throated Sparrow - 10-12
Song Sparrow - 1 Harlem Meer stream to the Loch
Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Loch, Pool)
Baltimore Oriole - 1 male Harlem Meer
Red-winged Blackbird - 6 or 7 males, 1 female
Common Grackle - 6
Northern Waterthrush - 1 west end of Pool (Mary Kate Horbac)
Blue-winged Warbler - 1 male High Meadow (Dan Stevenson)
Black-and-white Warbler - 4
Nashville Warbler - 1 at the Seep (Paul Curtis), another heard
American Redstart - 1 male northeast side of Pool (Dan Stevenson)
Northern Parula - 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 Loch (Doug Eaton)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 9
Prairie Warbler - 1 male High Meadow (Anindya Seng)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male Lily Ponds (Scott Brevda)
Northern Cardinal - 4
