Central Park NYC Saturday, September 16, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 17 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Nashville, and Cape May. Mallard - Turtle Pond & Lake Mourning Dove - Belvedere Castle & flyovers Chimney Swifts - very few Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 Herring Gull - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Point & Oven) Northern Flicker - 2 (Tupelo Field, male at the Point (Mitch Horowitz)) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 (Shakespeare Garden, Upper Lobe, Maintenance Field) Blue Jay White-breasted Nuthatch - Humming Tombstone (humming again) House Wren - 3 Veery - Humming Tombstone Swainson's Thrush - Source of the Gill American Robin Gray Catbird - 1 or 2 in several locations Brown thrasher - on lawn at Tupelo Field (Bob - early a.m.) Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 8 Maintenance Field House Finch - 6 (Upper Lobe & Sparrow/Tanner's Rock) Ovenbird - 2 (Sparrow/Tanner's Rock, Rock Wall (near Stone Arch)) Northern Waterthrush - 2 or 3 (Oven & Upper Lobe) Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Tennessee Warbler - Maintenance Field (Bob - early a.m.) Nashville Warbler - 2 (Top of the Point, Azalea Pond) Common Yellowthroat - 5 American Redstart - 10 Cape May Warbler - 3 (Shakespeare Garden, Locust Grove, King of Poland) Northern Parula - 35 Magnolia Warbler - 6 Yellow Warbler - 2 or 3 (1 or 2 Locust Grove, 1 King of Poland) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (King of Poland, Balancing Rock, Maintenance Field) Blackpoll Warbler - 3 (2 King-of Poland, 1 Locust Grove) Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Source of the Gill Palm Warbler - Maintenance Field (Bob - early a.m.) Pine Warbler - hatch-year female King of Poland Wilson's Warbler - King of Poland Northern Cardinal - female feeding juvenile Top of the Point Barbara Saunders and Junko Suzuki reported a female Hooded Warbler found by Megan Gavin in Mugger's Woods. Kyu Lee tweeted a male Hooded Warbler at Azalea Pond at 9:51am. 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/ --
