Central Park NYC Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PHD, Michael LaCombe, MD (8am to 11:30am)
Highlights: Slow Overall. Baltimore Oriole & Purple Finch but only 4 species of Wood Warblers. Some early morning flight of American Robins and Northern Flicker heading north (see below). Canada Goose - 6-8 Lake Wood Duck - 3 (1 male 2 females) Turtle Pond (Mike LaCombe) Mallard - Turtle Pond Ring-billed Gull - flyovers Herring Gull - flyovers Sharp-shinned Hawk - heading north over Humming Tombstone Red-tailed Hawk - adult over Pinetum Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6-7 (2 Shakespeare Garden incl. adult male, 4-5 Pinetum) Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - fewer than 10 early morning flyovers heading north Peregrine Falcon - perched on building SW corner 72nd St. & CPW - calling - frequent early a.m. perch Eastern Phoebe - 2 (north side Turtle Pond, Pinetum) Black-capped Chickadee - 10 throughout (reliable in hemlock Shakespeare Garden) Tufted Titmouse - slight increase since last week (4 at Upper Lobe alone) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2 Shakespeare Garden, 6 Pinetum) decrease White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 slight decrease (Shakespeare Garden, etc.) Winter Wren - 5 Carolina Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - fewer - around 20 throughout Swainson's Thrush - 1 Balancing Rock Hermit Thrush - 10 - feeding on Pokeweed berries American Robin - around 50 heading north in early a.m. Gray Catbird - 3 Purple Finch - female Oven Northern Parula - 4 (Pinetum, n. of Azalea Pond, Shakespeare Garden, Turtle Pond) Magnolia Warbler - 1 Upper Lobe Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Pinetum Eastern Towhee - 1 Ramble (Mike LaCombe) Field Sparrow - 2 Oven Song Sparrow - few Swamp Sparrow - 1 Turtle Pond Dark-eyed Junco - 10 Pinetum Northern Cardinal - residents Common Grackle - a few Baltimore Oriole - hatch-year male Shakespeare Garden (Mike LaCombe) Claude Bloch reported a Blue-headed Vireo in Shakespeare Garden. 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/ --
