Central Park NYC Sunday October 22, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Wilson's Snipe, White-eyed, Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireos, Yellow-breasted Chat, Eastern Meadowlark, Baltimore Oriole, Orange-crowned and Cape May Warblers, American Redstart, and Northern Parula (8 Species of Wood Warblers in all). Canada Goose - 42 Wood Duck - 2 Reservoir (Kate Wollin - early a.m.) Mallard - 8 Ruddy Duck - 8 (Kate Wollin - early a.m.) Mourning Dove - 50-60 Chimney Swift - 4 or 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Wilson's Snipe - 1 Great Lawn (Caren Jahre (photo) & Kate Wollin - early a.m.) Herring Gull - 10-15 Turkey Vulture - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 4 (1 perched at Pinetum, 3 flyovers) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 or 3 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 or 6 Downy Woodpecker - 3 (2 female, 1 male) Northern Flicker - 3 or 4 American Kestrel - 1 male Great Lawn Peregrine Falcon - 1 flyover Eastern Phoebe - 2 Willow Rock White-eyed Vireo - 1 Willow Rock (Marcy Katz) Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Edmund Berry) Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Edmund Berry) Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 12-16 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 30-35 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6-8 Carolina Wren - 3 Gray Catbird - 5 or 6 Brown Thrasher - 1 Maintenance Field Northern Mockingbird - 1 Belvedere Castle Hermit Thrush - 9-12 American Robin - 25-35 House Finch - 1 male Shakespeare Garden Dark-eyed Junco - 3 or 4 White-throated Sparrow - 40-50 Song Sparrow - 1 Willow Rock Eastern Towhee - 2 or 3 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 continuing Swedish Cottage (Peter Haskel, Dan Stevenson, Karen Evans) Eastern Meadowlark - 2 North Meadow Ball Fields (1 after lunch) reported by @Gigpalileo Baltimore Oriole - 1 Swedish Cottage (Edmund Berry) Red-winged Blackbird - 8-10 Common Grackle - 5-7 Ovenbird - 1 east of Azalea Pond (Edmund Berry) Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Swedish Cottage Common Yellowthroat - 1 male King of Poland/east Turtle Pond (Sandra Critelli) American Redstart - 1 Northwest Great Lawn Cape May Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle, Swedish Cottage) Northern Parula - 2 or 3 Pine Warbler - 1 hatch-year female Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8-10 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 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/ --
