Central Park NYC Sunday October 25, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob
Highlights: Northern Harrier, Bald Eagle, Great Crested Flycatcher, Pine Siskin, Five Species of Wood Warblers. Brant - flyover flock of 12 Canada Goose - 8 plus skeins of migrants overhead Mallard - 27 American Black Duck - flyover flock of 5 headed southeast Mourning Dove - 5 Herring Gull - around 15 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 2 flyovers Northern Harrier - male flyover seen from Belvedere Castle Cooper's Hawk - 2 flyovers Bald Eagle - 1 2nd-year flyover with Red-tailed Hawk escort Belvedere Castle Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (King of Poland and flyover) Northern Flicker - 5 Great Crested Flycatcher - Shakespeare Garden Eastern Phoebe - 2 (2 (Pinetum & Humming Tombstone) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Shakespeare Garden Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - 6 Black-capped Chickadee - around 40 Tufted Titmouse - around 40 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5 or 6 White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Brown Creeper - 2 (Great Lawn (S. Critelli), Sparrow Rock (RDC, David Barrett)) Winter Wren - 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Eastern Bluebird* Swainson's Thrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden Hermit Thrush - 20 American Robin - 40 (15 plus flyovers) Gray Catbird - 3 House Finch - 3 Pine Siskin - 50 American Goldfinch - 3 or 4 Eastern Towhee - 3 Chipping Sparrow - 25 Field Sparrow - 1 Sparrow Rock Song Sparrow - 15 Swamp Sparrow - 2 (near Boathouse, Pinetum) White-throated Sparrow - 75 Dark-eyed Junco - 25 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 male Sparrow Rock (Jackie Emery) Common Grackle - 100 Northern Parula - 1 between Tupelo Field & Humming Tombstone (Erica Rosengart) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female near Boathouse Pine Warbler - 2 (male & first-fall female) Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15-20 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 female Shakespeare Garden (Sandra Critelli) Northern Cardinal - 5 -- Other reports from the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett: *David Barrett heard Eastern Bluebird(s) at Shakespeare Garden, which were seen by Adam Cunningham @abclooksatbirds before we arrived. The Barred Owl continued at the north end, first reported this morning by @Above96th. Adam Cunningham @abclooksatbirds found an Orange-crowned Warbler at Dene Slope. Ursula Mitra @Timberdoodle found a female Northern Pintail at the Pool. -- 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/ --
