Central Park NYC Saturday October 6, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Dickcissel, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 14 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May & Tennessee Warblers. Northern Shoveler - 2 (male & female) Turtle Pond Mallard - around 10 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Upper Lobe Chimney Swift - several groups of 2-4 overhead Herring Gull - 8 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 25 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 20 flyovers Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - 11 (incl. 5 Maintenance Field, 4 NW Great Lawn) Red-eyed Vireo - 6 Blue Jay - 8 (no visible migration this a.m.) Tufted Titmouse - 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 House Wren - 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12 Swainson's Thrush - around 12 before 7:15am, only one in Shakespeare Garden later Wood Thrush - 6 before 7:15am, only one in the Ramble later American Robin - 10 Gray Catbird - 10 Brown Thrasher - 8 (3 of these together at Tupelo Field) Cedar Waxwing - 21 Maintenance Field also 1 or 2 flyover flocks of around 10 ea. Purple Finch - 16 (11 Sparrow Rock, 5 Upper Lobe Lawn) American Goldfinch - 4 Sparrow Rock Eastern Towhee - 4 Chipping Sparrow - 2 Maintenance Field before 7:15am Song Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 60 White-crowned Sparrow - adult Maintenance Field (Ryan Serio) Common Grackle - 30 Ovenbird - Ramble Black-and-white Warbler - 6 Tennessee Warbler - Upper Lobe Common Yellowthroat - 2 Ramble American Redstart - 4 (no adult males) Cape May Warbler - 3 north end of Pinetum Northern Parula - 12 Magnolia Warbler - Turtle Pond Dock (Ryan Serio) Blackpoll Warbler - 6 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males (Humming Tombstone & Gill Overlook) Palm Warbler - "Yellow" Pinetum Pine Warbler - 2 Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Pinetum Black-throated Green Warbler - female Maintenance Field Scarlet Tanager - male Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - few, but very vocal in early a.m. Indigo Bunting - Maintenance Field Dickcissel - N. end of ball fields n. of Great Lawn (David Barrett & about half the group) -- A Palm Warbler and a small flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers, all at the Wildflower Meadow were inadvertently omitted from Friday's list. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter #BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
