[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday Sept. 18, 2016 - 12 R-b Nuthatches, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 8 Wood Warbler Species
Central Park NYC Sunday Sept. 18, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am. A bit slow today. Highlights included 12 Red-breasted Nuthatches (5 locations), a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 8 Wood Warbler Species. Red-breasted Nuthatch numbers vary from day to day with an active migration going on. We estimate fewer than 100 in the entire park on any given day, perhaps a few more on a good day up to now. Numbers may increase in October. The most reliable locations for Red-breasted Nuthatches are areas with conifers like the Pinetum & Shakespeare Garden. Birds like American Robins, European Starling, Brown Thrashers, and others have been feeding in the Tupelo, a.k.a. Sour Gum, at the Tupelo Field. The oily fruit is a favorite of thrushes. Despite a thorough search no Philadelphia Vireos or Red-headed Woodpeckers turned up in the Ramble today. Mallard - Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - 10 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Oven (Jewelweed), 1 Summer House Swamp Herring Gull - flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - a few migrants Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 5-10 noisy birds at the Oven Crow sp. - 10 Black-capped chickadee - 2 Turtle Pond dock Tufted Titmouse - Pinetum Red-breasted Nuthatch - 12 (3 spruces on Cedar Hill, 3 Shakespeare Garden, 4 Pinetum, Maint. Field, Tupelo Tield) White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 House Wren - Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 2 Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - in the Tupelo at Tupelo Field (Bob Ruvolo) American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher - 2 in the Tupelo at Tupelo Field eating the fruit House Finch - in Bald Cypress at Turtle Pond Northern Waterthrush - 4 (2 at Turtle Pond, 1 Upper Lobe, 1 at the Gill) Blue-winged Warbler - Belvedere Castle (around 6:30am - Bob before walk) Black-and-white Warbler - 8 Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 12 (including 1 adult male) Northern Parula - 5 Magnolia Warbler - 3 (Humming Tombstone, Maint. Field & Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock - thanks Sandra Critelli) Pine Warbler - Turtle Pond Duck Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 Jewelweed at Oven (Andrea Hessel) Common Grackel - Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - Humming Tombstone A first-cycle Laughing Gull circling over the Pinetum was seen on the Saturday's walk (9/17/2016) along with the other gulls. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday Sept. 18, 2016 - 12 R-b Nuthatches, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 8 Wood Warbler Species
Central Park NYC Sunday Sept. 18, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am. A bit slow today. Highlights included 12 Red-breasted Nuthatches (5 locations), a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 8 Wood Warbler Species. Red-breasted Nuthatch numbers vary from day to day with an active migration going on. We estimate fewer than 100 in the entire park on any given day, perhaps a few more on a good day up to now. Numbers may increase in October. The most reliable locations for Red-breasted Nuthatches are areas with conifers like the Pinetum & Shakespeare Garden. Birds like American Robins, European Starling, Brown Thrashers, and others have been feeding in the Tupelo, a.k.a. Sour Gum, at the Tupelo Field. The oily fruit is a favorite of thrushes. Despite a thorough search no Philadelphia Vireos or Red-headed Woodpeckers turned up in the Ramble today. Mallard - Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - 10 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Oven (Jewelweed), 1 Summer House Swamp Herring Gull - flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - a few migrants Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 5-10 noisy birds at the Oven Crow sp. - 10 Black-capped chickadee - 2 Turtle Pond dock Tufted Titmouse - Pinetum Red-breasted Nuthatch - 12 (3 spruces on Cedar Hill, 3 Shakespeare Garden, 4 Pinetum, Maint. Field, Tupelo Tield) White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 House Wren - Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 2 Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - in the Tupelo at Tupelo Field (Bob Ruvolo) American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher - 2 in the Tupelo at Tupelo Field eating the fruit House Finch - in Bald Cypress at Turtle Pond Northern Waterthrush - 4 (2 at Turtle Pond, 1 Upper Lobe, 1 at the Gill) Blue-winged Warbler - Belvedere Castle (around 6:30am - Bob before walk) Black-and-white Warbler - 8 Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 12 (including 1 adult male) Northern Parula - 5 Magnolia Warbler - 3 (Humming Tombstone, Maint. Field & Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock - thanks Sandra Critelli) Pine Warbler - Turtle Pond Duck Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 Jewelweed at Oven (Andrea Hessel) Common Grackel - Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - Humming Tombstone A first-cycle Laughing Gull circling over the Pinetum was seen on the Saturday's walk (9/17/2016) along with the other gulls. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --