Central Park NYC Saturday September 9, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob
Highlights: 15 Species of Wood Warblers, Scarlet Tanagers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Flycatchers, and Thrushes. Canada Goose - Reservoir Mallard - Reservoir & Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 7 Ring-billed Gull - Reservoir Herring Gull - Reservoir & flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - Reservoir Red-tailed Hawk - 2 overhead west side of Azalea Pond (Drew Stadlin & Andrea Hessel) Downy Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 or 3 (David Barrett & Vicki Seabrook) Least Flycatcher - Shakespeare Garden (Drew Stadlin) Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Shakeseare Garden & Locust Grove) Warbling Vireo - Belvedere Castle Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - several locations White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Locust Grove & Azalea Pond) House Wren - 5 (Tupelo Field (Gillian Henry), 2 Strawberry Fields (E. J. Bartolazo), Shakespeare Garden, Locust Grove) Carolina Wren - foot of Warbler Rock (Jean Cappella) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 uphill from Boathouse Veery - Tupelo Field (Peter Haskel) Swainson's Thrush - Ramble Hermit Thrush - arch near Triplet's Bridge Wood Thrush - top of Oven/chez Armando (Bob - early a.m.) Gray Catbird - several locations Cedar Waxwing - several flocks - 8, 21, and 11 birds each House Finch - Oven Song Sparrow - Tupelo Field (David Barrett) Baltimore Oriole - 3 (2 Pinetum (Vicki Seabrook), 1 adult male elms opposite Belvedere Castle (Bob - early a.m.)) Common Grackle Ovenbird - 4 Northern Waterthrush - 2 or 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 6 Tennessee Warbler - 3 (Shakespeare Garden, Bow Bridge (Jean Shum), Belvedere Castle (Bob 6:30am)) Common Yellowthroat - 10 American Redstart - 10 Cape May Warbler - 4 or 5 Northern Parula - 3 (David Barrett) Magnolia Warbler - 15 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (David Barrett) Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Tupelo Field) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males (Tupelo Field & Strawberry Fields) Palm Warbler - western subspecies Pinetum (first-of-season) Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 (Bow Bridge & Wagner Cove) Canada Warbler - 3 Scarlet Tanager - 4 (female Pinetum, 3 elms opposite Belvedere Castle (Bob - early a.m.)) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 Shakespeare Garden Thanks to John Sheehy for pointing out some of the birds in Shakespeare Garden including 3 Cape May Warblers and a Great Crested Flycatcher. Pat Dubren reported a Nashville Warbler at Sparrow Rock. Hawk watching picked-up a bit. Tweets this afternoon came from David Barrett reporting 2 southbound Bald Eagles, Broad-winged and Cooper's Hawks, and Ospreys. Later, at around 4pm, Junko Suzuki reported a kettle of Broad-winged Hawks. No early morning flight today other than small passerines coming in from the east (Bob - early morning observations from Belvedere Castle). 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/ --
