Central Park NYC Saturday October 5, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Nine Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May Warbler, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, influx of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. Canada Goose - 28 (18 in southbound "V") Mallard - 14 Mourning Dove - 4 or 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Belvedere Castle Chimney Swift - 30 to 40 Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - around 40 Reservoir 7:15am,flyover Herring Gulls Double-crested Cormorant - 2 (Reservoir & Turtle Pond) Osprey - over Pinetum Sharp-shinned Hawk - carrying a bird over Ramble near Castle Cooper's Hawk - flyover Balancing Rock Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults over Great Lawn Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 50 to 75 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Tupelo Field Northern Flicker - 10 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 or 3 Eastern Phoebe - 5 or 6 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (west side Great Lawn, Pinetum) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - heard in Ramble House Wren - 5 to 7 Winter Wren - at least 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7 to 10 Swainson's Thrush - 3 Hermit Thrush - Pinetum American Robin - 30 to 40 Gray Catbird - 75 Brown Thrasher - 5 Cedar Waxwing - 3 or 4 in crab apple in Shakespeare Garden House Finch - 2 (male & immature) King of Poland Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow -2 King of Poland White-throated Sparrow - 10 to 20 Eastern Towhee - male King of Poland Common Grackle - flock of at least 70 (Cedar Hill & east side Maintenance Field) Ovenbird - 1 Persimmon Slope Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 4 Common Yellowthroat - 1 King of Poland American Redstart - 3 or 4 Cape May Warbler - 4 Pinetum Northern Parula - 6 or 7 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (1 female, 3 males) Pine Warbler - 3 or 4 Scarlet Tanager - 3 Northern Cardinal - 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 or 3 heard only -- Miriam Rakowski reported an Indigo Bunting still showing some black on the face at the Maintenance Field. -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
