May Targets

During the month of April, I crushed my expectation total of 15-25 species with 34 new ones, bringing my 2015 year list to 93. Top birds that month were Prothonotary Warbler (The Point,CP), Chuck-Wills-Widow (Bryant Park), Marsh Wren (The Pond,CP), Common Loon (The Reservoir,CP), Rusty Blackbird(The Gill,CP), and Fish Crow(Cal Schurz Park), as well as many others. I feel very confident about May, and great conditions are coming early next week. I aim to see 35-50 species of birds. It might sound high, but I'll be out a lot, and know several websites/mailing lists that help report rarities and other stuff so you can find them. Anyway, here is what I want to find.


Year List To Date: 2014:123   <   2015: 132(+1)

Added so far this month: 40(+1)
Probable
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (numerous migrants, may be seen at Swampy Pin Oak)
Gray Catbird (nesters arrive)
Cedar Waxwing (migrants)*
House Wren (migrants)*
Eastern Kingbird (migrants/nesters arrive)
Least Flycatcher (migrants arrive)
Willow/Alder Flycatcher (migrants arrive)
(Empidonax sp.)
Eastern Wood-Pewee (migrants)
Red-Eyed Vireo (migrants/nesters arrive)
Warbling Vireo (migrants/nesters arrive)
Wood Thrush (migrants)
Swainson's Thrush (migrants)
Veery (migrants)
Prairie Warbler (migrant arrive)*
Ovenbird (migrants)
American Redstart (numerous migrants)
Common Yellowthroat (numerous migrants)
Black-Throated Green Warbler (migrants)
Black-Throated Blue Warbler (migrants)
Blackpoll Warbler (migrants)
Wilson's Warbler (migrants)
Magnolia Warbler (numerous migrants)
Canada warbler (migrants)
Chestnut-Sided Warbler (migrants)
Scarlet Tanager (migrants)
Indigo Bunting (migrants)

Possible
Great Blue Heron (wanders)*
Green Heron (migrants)
Turkey Vulture (flyovers)*
Osprey (flyovers)
Spotted Sandpiper (migrants)
Solitary Sandpiper (migrants)
Laughing Gull (near the river.migrant/nester)
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (migrants)
Black-Billed Cuckoo (migrants)
Belted Kingfisher (wanders)
Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher (second half of month)
Olive-Sided Flycatcher (migrants)
Great-Crested Flycatcher (migrants)
White-Eyed Vireo (migrants)*
Yellow-Throated Vireo (migrants)
Gray-Cheeked Thrush (migrants
Nashville Warbler (migrants arrive)
Yellow-Throated Warbler (overshoots)
Worm-Eating Warbler (migrants)
Cape May Warbler (migrants)
Blackburnian Warbler (migrants)
Bay-Breasted Warbler (migrants)
Hooded Warbler (migrants)
Mourning Warbler (second half)
Yellow-Breatsed Chat (migrants
Summer Tanager (overshoots)
Orchard Oriole (migrants)
Lincoln's Sparrow (migrants)
White-Crowned Sparrow (migrants)*

Longshots
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (fallout)
Merlin (sometimes wanders into the park)*
Any kind of rail (annual)
Red-Headed Woodpecker (Can appear in May)*
Common Raven (flyovers have been reported)
Eastern Bluebird (one could turn up)*
Golden-Winged Warbler (rare but regular migrants)
Cerulean Warbler (rare but regular migrants)
Kentucky Warbler (migrants)