Central Park NYC Saturday November 7, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Virginia Rail, Red-shouldered Hawk, Purple Finch, Pine & Palm Warblers, Cedar Waxwing. Canada Goose - 6 migrants Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 10 Virginia Rail - cont'd between Triplet's Bridge & Balcony Bridge (Erica Rosengart) Herring Gull - 20 flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 2 (Turtle Pond Island, Great Lawn flyover) Red-shouldered Hawk - 5 migrants overhead Red-tailed Hawk - 4 local birds Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (Pinetum, Ramble) Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 (Pinetum, Flyover) Eastern Phoebe - 1 Tupelo Field (Sandra Critelli) Blue Jay - 8 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4 White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 Brown Creeper - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Pinetum) Carolina Wren - 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8 Hermit Thrush - 4 American Robin - 35 Gray Catbird - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Belvedere Castle) Cedar Waxwing - 90 (30 plus 3 migrating flocks each of 20 birds) Purple Finch - 3 (1 Belvedere Castle, 2 King of Poland) Pine Siskin - 25 in two flocks American Goldfinch - 60 (15 plus 45 in migrating flocks) Eastern towhee - 1 male Delacorte Theater Song Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 300 Dark-eyed Junco - around 40 Red-winged Blackbird - 150 (5 flocks of migrants) Brown-headed Cowbird - flock of 25 migrants Common Grackle - around 80 Pine Warbler - 1 Pinetum (Kate Wodell) Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Pinetum (Sandra Critelli) Northern Cardinal - 7 -- @Above96th reported the continuing Barred Owl at the Loch, and @uptownbirdsnyc reported Lesser Scaup on the Reservoir via the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
