Date: 5/1/26 11:45 pm From: Martin Sandler (via NYSBIRDS-L list) <NYSBIRDS-L...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. May 1, 2026: Am. Redstart, Blue-winged, Nashville, Prairie, and Other Wood Warblers
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On Friday, May 1, 2026, 4:20 PM, Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> wrote:
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
