Date: Thursday, 24 September 2009 (12:45p-1:35p) Location: Bryant Park Reported by: Ben Cacace
The newly resodded Great Lawn wasn't attracting anything other than pigeons and House Sparrows. My species total for the park has increased again. This time by 2 to 35 with the addition of Osprey and Broad-winged Hawk. Both migrating on variable winds in mostly cloudy skies. See complete park list below. Turns out my favorite month to visit the park is October. The Northern Waterthrush continues in the storage area at the southeast corner of the park west of the Outdoor Cafe. A map of the park can be found here (click "View Map of Bryant Park" in the right sidebar): http://www.bryantpark.org/the-grounds/overview.php Both male and female American Redstarts were feeding in the storage area. This location is a good spot for birds since people other than staff never enter the area. ** Total species - 7 ** - Osprey - 1 heading due W at 12:48p - Broad-winged Hawk - Small kettle of 8 E of the park - Rock Pigeon - 12+ - American Redstart - 2 in the storage area incl. 1 male & 1 female - Northern Waterthrush - 1 continues in the storage area @ the SE corner - Common Yellowthroat - 2 females seen mainly in the storage area - House Sparrow - 36+ I've submitted 45 reports to ebird.org so it was fairly easy to pull the data. The # of times the species was seen is in ( ). If the bird was seen only once the date is placed in ( ): 1 Osprey - Pandion haliaetus (24 Sep 2009) 2 Broad-winged Hawk - Buteo platypterus (24 Sep 2009) 3 Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis (31 Oct 2007) 4 American Kestrel - Falco sparverius (2) 5 Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus (4) 6 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia (41) 7 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris (8 Oct 2007) 8 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius (3) 9 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus (28 Sep 2005) 10 Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannus (19 Sep 2007) 11 Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata (2) 12 Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor (29 Oct 2007) 13 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa (20 Oct 2003) 14 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula (2) 15 Gray-cheeked Thrush - Catharus minimus (8 Oct 2007) 16 Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus (19 Sep 2007) 17 Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus (24) 18 Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis (19) 19 Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum (8 Oct 2007) 20 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris (2) 21 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum (20 Sep 2007) 22 Palm Warbler - Dendroica palmarum (7) 23 American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla (5) 24 Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla (6) 25 Northern Waterthrush - Seiurus noveboracensis (21/24 Sep 2009) 26 Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas (15) 27 Yellow-breasted Chat - Icteria virens (10 Nov 2002) 28 Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus (5 Nov 2003) 29 Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina (6 May 2005) 30 Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia (24) 31 Lincoln's Sparrow - Melospiza lincolnii (12 Oct 2007) 32 Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana (9) 33 White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis (37) 34 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis (11) 35 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus (40) Reports submitted by month: January (1) February (-) March (-) April (1) May (2) June (-) July (-) August (-) September (6) October (23) November (8) December (4) TOTAL (45) -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
