Central Park NYC Saturday Oct. 1, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob on bird walks starting from the Boathouse Cafe at 7:30am and 9:00am.
Today's Highlights: Sharp-shinned & Cooper's Hawks, 10 species of Wood Warblers and the continuing Marsh Wren. Canada Goose - 8 Lake Mallard - Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - 15 to 20 low over the treetops Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 at Oven Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers Sharp-shinned Hawk - hatch-year male released by Boathouse staff after window collision Cooper's Hawk - large hatch-year female at the Oven Red-tailed Hawk - adult resident Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 20 to 30 (flight in last night) including 5 on the ground at Maintenance field Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 White-eyed Vireo - hatch-year east side of the source of the Gill Blue-headed Vireo - in Catalpa at Tupelo Field Red-eyed Vireo - 7 Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Oven Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (2 of these in Shakespeare Garden) White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Oven Brown Creeper - 1 at Oven House Wren - several Winter Wren - uphill from Boathouse (Robert Ruvolo, MD) Marsh Wren - just west of south side of Bow Bridge in Cattails Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 to 20 Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2 near feeders & elsewhere Swainson's Thrush - 4 American Robin - many flying north early morning (Bob before walk) Gray Catbird - Brown Thruasher - 5 Northern Mockingbird - 2 Cedar Waxwing - flock at Oven House Finch - residents Ovenbird - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 6 American Redstart - 7 Nothern Parula - 20 (the most numerous Wood Warbler species today) Magnolia Warbler - 4 Blackpoll Warbler - 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (one male) Palm Warbler (Eastern) - 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler - Tupelo Field Eastern Towhee - 5 Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - first big influx Scarlet Tanager - 2 Shakespeare Garden (Gillian Henry, MD) Northern Cardinal - residents Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Upper Lobe (thanks to Louise Burns & Colman Rupp) Common Grackle - flock of 25 outside Boathouse Cafe Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
