Central Park NYC Sunday Oct. 23, 2016 Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Turtle Pond at 9am.
Highlights: Wood Ducks, Red-headed Woodpecker, Bald Eagle, Merlin, and Common Raven. Canada Goose - 8 in flyover flock Wood Duck - 3 (1 male & 2 females Turtle Pond) Gadwall - 10 - Reservoir (Deb before walk) American Black Duck - 1 Reservoir Mallard - 20 Turtle Pond, others at Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 2 (male & female Turtle Pond, others at Reservoir) Ruddy Duck - 180+ Reservoir (Deb before walk) Mourning Dove - more than 20 (several locations) Ring-billed Gull - flyover & Reservoir Herring Gull - flyovers & Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - flyover Great Lawn & a few at Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond Bald Eagle - adult flying west over sheep Meadow Cooper's Hawk - immature over Castle (probably the same bird seen later over Humming Tombstone Red-tailed Hawk - adult over Great Lawn (Allie), immature over Maintenance Field Red-headed Woodpecker - hatch-year bird east of Sheep Meadow (thanks to a tweet from Cathy Weiner) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 - big decrease in numbers Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - Sparrow Rock (Allie) Merlin - low flyover near Boathouse Eastern Phoebe - west side Great Lawn Blue-headed Vireo - south end of western Pinetum Blue Jay - several small groups Common Raven - flyover Pinetum heading east (Deb before walk) Black-capped Chickadee - 10-15 numbers may be increasing slightly after a dramatic fall-off Tufted Titmouse - at least 20, may still be increasing Red-breasted Nuthatch - 11 (6 Pinetum, 4 Shakespeare Garden, 1 Maintenance Field) - numbers stabilized White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 or 10 - slight increase Brown Creeper - the Point (Allie) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2 the Point (Sandra Critelli), 1 Pinetum) Ruby-crowned Kinglet -13-15 several locations, but decreasing Hermit Thrush -4 (Pinetum, Balancing Rock, Evodia Field, the Point) American Robin - fewer House Finch - a few (Sparrow Rock & Great Lawn) Pine Warbler - 2 Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - east of Sheep Meadow (Sandra Critelli) Eastern Towhee -2 (female Balancing Rock (Ginny DeLiagre), male Maintenance Field) Song Sparrow - Locust Grove & Sparrow Rock White-throated Sparrow - everywhere Dark-eyed Junco - adult male Sparrow Rock Northern Cardinal - residents Common Grackle - low numbers Congratulations to Ryan Zucker for a great find this morning - a Cackling Goose at Inwood Hill Park. 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/ --
