Central Park NYC Monday October 8, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuickoo (2), Northern Harrier, Hairy Woodpecker, and 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Bay-breasted and Cape May Warblers.
Canada Goose - 6 Lake Northern Shoveler - 4 Turtle Pond Mallard - 10 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Upper Lobe (Will Papp) Chimney Swift - 20 Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - hatch-year Turtle Pond Northern Harrier - female over Strawberry Fields at 9:10am Cooper's Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 20 Downy Woodpecker - Ramble (Carine Mitchell) Hairy Woodpecker - heard near feeders Northern Flicker - 12 Eastern Phoebe - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - flock of 50 migrating over Sparrow Rock, plus 15 American Crow - flock of 15 flying west Tufted Titmouse - 6 (Ramble & Strawberry Fields) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 25 (15 Strawberry Fields, 8 Pinetum, others scattered around) White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 House Wren - 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 Swainson's Thrush - 4 Hermit Thrush - 2 in Ramble (Carine Mitchell) American Robin - usual numbers Gray Catbird - 40 to 50 Brown Thrasher - 6, most in Strawberry Fields Cedar Waxwing - 2 Sparrow Rock Purple Finch - female Shakespeare Garden American Goldfinch - Sparrow Rock Eastern Towhee - 6 (males & females) Strawberry Fields Chipping Sparrow - Sparrow Rock Song Sparrow - 2 Sparrow Rock White-throated Sparrow - 25 to 30 White-crowned Sparrow - adult & hatch-year fenced area north of Sparrow Rock Common Grackle - 5 Ovenbird - Shakespeare Garden Northern Waterthrush - 2 Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - west of feeders (Carine Mitchell) Common Yellowthroat - 4 Cape May Warbler - 3 Pinetum Bay-breasted Warbler - Ladies Pavilion (Carine Mitchell) Blackpoll Warbler - Strawberry Fields Northern Parula 7 American Redstart - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Shakespeare Garden) Magnolia Warbler - Strawberry Fields Pine Warbler - Pinetum Palm Warbler - "Yellow" Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - Strawberry Fields Scarlet Tanager - 2 in Hackberry s. side of Strawberry Fields Northern Cardinal - 5 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/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/ --