Central Park NYC Monday October 29, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Am. Kestrel vs. Golden-crowned Kinglets, Cooper's Hawk, Wood Ducks
Canada Goose - 12 (8 Lake, 4 Turtle Pond) Wood Duck - 8 (males & females) Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - 22 (20 Turtle Pond, 2 Lake) Mallard - 15 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 2 Shakespeare Garden Great Blue Heron - flyover west to east Cooper's Hawk - immature chasing American Robins at the Great Lawn (Bob - 7:05AM) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 7 Downy Woodpecker - female Maintenance Field Northern Flicker - 5 American Kestrel - male caught Golden-crowned Kinglets in low pass at Great Lawn right in front of the group Blue Jay - 8 American Crow - 6 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 8 (6 of these at Balcony Bridge) Tufted Titmouse - 15-20 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 Brown Creeper - 2 (NE Great Lawn & Shakespeare Garden (Peter Haskel)) Winter Wren - 2 (King of Poland, Shakespeare Garden) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 30-50 (NE Great Lawn on the grass) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Hermit Thrush - 8-10 American Robin - many feeding in Crab Apples Gray Catbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Cedar Waxwing - flock of 5 Shakespeare Garden Purple Finch - 9 (3 Shakespeare Garden, 4 Sparrow Rock, 2 Strawberry Fields) Eastern Towhee - 7 Chipping Sparrow - 23 (20 Sparrow Rock, 3 Maintenance Field) Song Sparrow - 10-20 White-crowned Sparrow - hatch-year bird at King of Poland White-throated Sparrow - many+ Dark-eyed Junco - around 20 Sparrow Rock Yellow-rumped Warbler - 14 (4 Strawberry Fields, 10 NE Great Lawn) 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/ --
