Central Park, NYC Monday, October 16, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: 6 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May. No dawn flight observed this morning (6:40am to 8am), but small groups of American Robins were heading south overhead for about 1/2 hour starting at 8:10am. Canada Goose - heard flyover flock Mallard - Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - residents Chimney Swift - flock of 6 over Tupelo Field Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Blue Heron - immature Turtle Pond (Peter Haskel) Sharp-shinned Hawk - immature flyover Strawberry Fields Cooper's Hawk - immature at Oven (Tom Ahlf) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - Ramble Yelow-bellied Sapsucker - 15 (most at the Pinetum) Downy Woodpecker - west side Great Lawn Northern Flicker - not many Eastern Phoebe - 5 Blue-headed Vireo - 5, including 2 feeding in Pokeweed at the Maintenance Field Blue Jay American Crow - 2 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - Ramble House Wren - 3 Carolina Wren - singing in Shakespare Garden Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (2 Upper Lobe, 2 west of Triplet's Bridge) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 30 Hermit Thrush - 4 American Robin - some heading south this morning Gray Catbird - 4 Northern Mockingbird - NW Great Lawn Brown Thrasher - Locust Grove Eastern Towhee - 5 (4 males, 1 female) Field Sparrow - 2 Strawberry Fields Song Sparrow - 10 Swamp Sparrow - 2 Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - 10 Common Grackle - Shakespeare Garden Black-and-whtie Warbler - Evodia Field Cape May Warbler - 2 Pinetum Blackpoll Warbler - 1 west of Triplet's Bridge, another found dead at Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Strawberry Fields Palm Warbler - "Western" Strawberry Fields Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Shakespeare Garden Northern Cardinal - residents Roger Pasquier reported that yesterday's White-eyed Vireo (King of Poland/Cleopatra's Needle area) was re-found again today. Some interesting tweets today (see @BirdCentralPark): Adrian Burke reported White-crowned & Lincoln's Sparrows at Falconer's Hill, a Merlin with prey at Cherry Hill, and a Bald Eagle low over the Reservoir. Jordan Spindel reported a Magnolia Warbler between the Locust Grove and Great Lawn. M. Klein reported Pine Warblers in pines at the King of Poland (aka Polish Statue). Follow Bob DeCandido & I 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/[email protected]/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/ --
