Central Park NYC Thursday September 7, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights on a hot and humid morning: Wood Warblers Including Black-throated Green & Wilson's Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Blackburnian Warbler reported. Warm weather seemed to have slowed the fall migration, so that while diversity is good, the number of individual migrants remains low. Canada Goose - 11 Gadwall - 2 Reservoir (Bob - early) Mallard - 14 Mourning Dove - 20-25 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 reported at the Gill (Elizabeth Paredes) Chimney Swift - 3-5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Ramble Ring-billed Gull - 12 Herring Gull - 16 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 reservoir (Bob - early) Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard in Ramble Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 1 Evodia Field Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 3 or 4 Cedar Waxwing - flock of 15-20 Sparrow Rock (Bob - early) Carolina Wren - 3 or 4 Gray Catbird - 8-10 Veery - 10-15 American Robin - 25-30 House Finch - 1 Maintenance Field White-throated Sparrow - 2 Ramble Baltimore Oriole - 1 hatch-year Maintenance Field Common Grackle - 8-10 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Gill Overlook Black-and-white Warbler - 2 Ramble Common Yellowthroat - 1 Evodia Field (Dan Stevenson) American Redstart - 9-10 Northern Parula - 1 Maintenance Field (Paul Curtis) Magnolia Warbler - 2 or 3 Blackburnian Warbler - 1 reported west 77th Street Entrance (Sandra Beltrao) Yellow Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Ramble Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 (male Evodia field, female near Gill Overlook) Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Canada Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field (Caren Jahre) Wilson's Warbler - 1 Azalea Pond Scarlet Tanager - 1 south Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 6-8 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 female south Tupelo Field -- Long-time Central Park birder and bird photographer Anne Shanahan died on Tuesday, a great loss for her friends, fellow photographers, and for the Central Park birding community. -- Deb Allen -- 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/ --
