Central Park NYC Monday Oct. 3, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Strawberry Fields at 9am & pre-walk birding from 8-9am.
Highlights: 16 species of Wood Warblers including 3 Tennessee Warblers, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker attracting warblers at the Oven (others at the Pinetum). Canada Goose - 8 east side of the Point Gadwall - at least 35 Meer (Deb after lunch) Mallard - Lake Northern Shoveler - at least 24 Meer (Deb after lunch) Mourning Dove - many locations Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Maintenance Field Chimney Swift - more than 30 including a flock of around 25 low over the compost (Deb after lunch) Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Strawberry Fields, Jewelweed at Oven) The usual Reservoir Gulls in moderate numbers: Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Double-crested Cormorant - not many Reservoir (Deb) Sharp-shinned Hawk - flyover seen from the Point Red-tailed Hawk - flyover seen from the Point Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 (Strawberry Fields, Tupelo Field adult male (Will Schenck), Oven, 3 on the Point) Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 3 (Upper Lobe Lawn, 2 Maintenance Field) American Kestrel - male between North Meadow Ballfields & Compost (Deb after lunch) Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 or 4 (1 or 2 Strawberry Fields, Tupelo Field, north of Summer House) Eastern Phoebe - 2 Strawberry Fields & Tupelo Field (others at north end) Blue-headed Vireo - Tupelo Field Red-eyed Vireo - 5 (Strawberry Fields, Tupelo Field, 3 Balancing Rock) Blue Jay - multiple locations, flock of around 40 flying south North Meadow Ballfields (Deb after lunch) Black-capped Chickadee - 3 or 4 (1 or 2 Strawberry fields, 2 Summer House - fed by hand) Tufted Titmouse - 2 (Summer House, Oven) Red-breasted Nuthatch - Pinetum (Deb after lunch) White-breasted Nuthatch - Pinetum (Deb after lunch) Brown Creeper - Azalea Pond (Nancy Shamban) Carolina Wren - 1 or 2 (Oven & Point) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - hill down to Boathouse (Will Schenck) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - at least 10 Gray-cheeked Thrush - Balancing Rock Swainson's Thrush - Balancing Rock Wood Thrush - Upper Lobe American Robin Gray Catbird - everywhere Brown Thrasher - 3 Strawberry Fields, Oven, 7 Maintenance Field Northern Mockingbird House Finch - 3 Maintenance Field Ovenbird - Strawberry Fields, Azalea Pond Black-and-white Warbler - 6 (Strawberry Fields,Tupelo Field, Summer House, 2 Azalea Pond, hill down to Boathouse) Tennessee Warbler - 3 (2 Oven (Jeff Ward), 1 path downhill to Boathouse) Nashville Warbler - west side of Azalea Pond (Deb after lunch) Common Yellowthroat - 5 American Redstart - 8 Cape May Warbler - 2 or 3 in one Siberian Elm Pinetum (Deb after lunch) Northern Parula - 13 Magnolia Warbler - Maintenance Field Yellow Warbler - Upper Lobe Chestnut-sided Warbler - Summer House Blackpoll Warbler - Oak Bridge (Jeff Ward) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males Strawberry Fields, male Tupelo Field, Azalea Pond Palm Warbler - 3 (2 Maintenance Field, Tupelo Field) (many more at the north end) Pine Warbler - 2 pines near Compost (Deb after lunch) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Tupelo Field Eastern Towhee - female Strawberry Fields Chipping Sparrow - Maintenance Field (Jeff Ward) White-throated Sparrow - multiple locations Dark-eyed Junco - Maintenance Field Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (1 Strawberry Fields (Nancy Shamban), 2 in Jewelweed at Oven, 1 Point (Jeff Ward)) Common Grackle - Upper Lobe & Locust Grove (flock) Baltimore Oriole - Strawberry Fields (Will Papp) Deborah 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/ --
