Central Park NYC Sunday, September 24, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 11 species of Wood Warblers including 4 Cape May Warblers. Canada Goose - 140+ Reservoir 6:25am Mallard - 23 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 15+ Chimney Swift - 6 together over Maintenance Field Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Oven (Bob & Armando - early am) By 6:45am gulls streaming into the Reservoir at the rate of 5 or 6 every minute Ring-billed Gull - around 20 Reservoir 6:45am Herring Gull - around 20 Reservoir 6:45am & numerous flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Reservoir 6:45 am Double-crested Cormorant - Reservoir 6:45am Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Great Lawn, 1 Tupelo Field Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 (1 SW Pinetum (Mayra Cruz), 2 Shakespeare Garden) Downy Woodpecker - Shakespeare Garden & Great Lawn Northern Flicker - at least 5 (Maintenance Field, Tupelo Field, King of Poland, Ramble near Oven, Gill Overlook) Peregrine Falcon - 2 flyovers Maintenance Field Eastern Wood-Pewee - Humming Tombstone Eastern Phoebe - Turtle Pond Red-eyed Vireo - 5-7 Blue Jay - several White-breasted Nuthatch - heard in 2 locations House Wren - Sparrow Rock Winter Wren - Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8 Swainson's Thrush - 5 in Amur Cork trees at Azalea Pond & Willow Rock American Robin - 40+ Gray Catbird - at least 10, some in Amur cork tees with Swainson's Thrushes Brown Thrasher - 5 or 6 Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of a dozen Maintenance Field Song Sparrow - Sparrow Rock Swamp Sparrow - Sparrow Rock White-throated Sparrow - several locations mostly in groups of 3 or 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 7 Common Yellowthroat - Tupelo Field & Sparrow Rock American Redstart - 7 Cape May Warbler - 4 (2 Shakespeare Garden, 2 Turtle Pond) Northern Parula - 15-20 Magnolia Warbler - 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - Tupelo Field (in Tupelo) Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Maintenance Field (Andrea Hessel) Pine Warbler - 3 (2 Shakespeare Garden, 1 Delacorte Theater (Sandra Critelli)) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (male Tupelo Field, male Summit Rock (Deb - 7am)) Wilson's Warbler - King of Poland (Linda Yuen) Scarlet Tanager - Gill Overlook Northern Cardinal - residents including juvenile female at the top of the Point Rose-breasted Grosbeak - heard Sparrow Rock Will Schenck and Jory visiting from Connecticut reported a Golden-crowned Kinglet in Shakespeare Garden, and heard many others. Follow us on twitter @DAllenNYC 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/ --