Central Park NYC Friday September 8, 2023 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Osprey, Northern Shoveler, Swainson's Thrush, Wood Warblers, and a coyote/coy wolf at the Loch. Dan Stevenson spotted the canid behind some brush on the north, more wooded, side of the Loch.
Canada Goose - 13 Northern Shoveler - 2 Harlem Meer (Deb - 8am) Gadwall - 5 Mallard - 24 Mourning Dove - around a dozen Chimney Swift - 4-8 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 150 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 4 Great Blue Heron - 1 Harlem Meer (Deb - 8am) Osprey - 1 over Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 north of the Pool, others heard Downy Woodpecker - 1 Great Hill Northern Flicker - 3 Blue Jay - 3 or 4 American Crow - heard Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 5 (Deb - 1pm) Carolina Wren - 2 heard (Conservatory Garden & Loch) Gray Catbird - 14 or 15 Northern Mockingbird - 2 Plant Nursery Area Swainson's Thrush - 1 Green Bench (Caren Jahre) American Robin - 15-20 House Finch - 8 American Goldfinch - 2 Wildflower Meadow Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 female Plant Nursery Area Common Grackle - 1 Loch Northern Waterthrush - 1 or 2 at the Pool Black-and-white Warbler - 3 (Caren Jahre) Common Yellowthroat - 5 (Paul Curtis) American Redstart - 14 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Harlem Meer Northern Cardinal - 8-10 including a female feeding a juvenile and a male feeding a juvenile -- In other bird news, Elizabeth Paredes reported a Blackburnian Warbler in the largest Tupelo (Sour Gum) in the Ramble. See @BirdCentralPark on twitter maintained by David Barrett for this and other for up-to-the-minute bird reports for NY County. -- 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/ --
