Central Park (North End), NYC Sunday November 4, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights on NYC Marathon Sunday: Nashville Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Blue-headed Vireo, Purple Finches. Canada Goose - a dozen on the Harlem Meer plus flyover flock of 40 Northern Shoveler - 15 Meer Gadwall - male Meer Mallard - around 20 Meer Ruddy Duck - 10 Meer Mourning Dove - 5 Green Bench Double-crested Cormorant - southbound flyover flock of 31 Cooper's Hawk - after-hatch-year male with yellow eyes Loch Red-tailed Hawk - 3 local birds together overhead Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 2 American Kestrel - flyover male Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - in pine Green Bench (Vicki Seabrook) Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - flock of 15 Black-capped Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 7 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Brown Creeper - North Woods Winter Wren - 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20 Hermit Thrush - 5 American Robin - 15 in Conservatory Garden Crab Apples Gray Catbird - North woods Northern Mockingbird - 2 Conservatory Garden Cedar Waxwing - 4 Green Bench plus flock of 11 House Finch - male Fort Clinton (Sandra Critelli) Purple Finch - 8 (7 female, 1 male) American Goldfinch - 3 Wildflower Meadow Eastern Towhee - 4 Chipping Sparrow - flock of 15 Green Bench Field Sparrow - (Elizabeth Millard-Whitman) NW Meer Savannah Sparrow - NW Meer (Vicki Seabrook) Song Sparrow - 15+ Swamp Sparrow - 5 White-throated Sparrow 100-200 Dark-eyed Junco - 25 Green Bench Red-winged Blackbird - 14 (2 small flocks heading west over Wildflower Meadow) Common Grackle - flyover flock of 150 Nashville Warbler - NW Meer (Gillian Henry) Common Yellowthroat - 2 females west side of Meer Palm Warbler - 2 Great Hill Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10 Northern Cardinal - 3 -- No report for November 4, 2018 would be complete without a mention of the big news of the day, a Harris's Sparrow found at the North Meadow Recreation Center by Elizabeth Paredes - a stunning first record for Central Park. 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/ --
