Central Park NYC Saturday October 31, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Common Loon, Red-shouldered Hawk, Merlin, Fox Sparrow, 4 Species of Wood Warblers, Eastern Bluebird. Canada Goose - around 150 including skeins of migrants overhead Northern Shoveler - 60 Gadwall - 7 Mallard - 36 Bufflehead - 15 Hooded Merganser - 2 Turtle Pond Ruddy Duck - around 50 Mourning Dove - 5 American Coot - 1 North End Reservoir (Deb) Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - around 70 including 20 flyover Herring Gulls Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Common Loon - 1 north end of Reservoir (Deb) Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 or 2 Pinetum Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Ramble & Pinetum) Northern Flicker - 3 Merlin - flyover Blue-headed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - flyover flock of 8 Black-capped Chickadee - 8 to 10 Tufted Titmouse - 45-50 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 12-14 Brown Creeper - 2 (Great Lawn, uphill from Boathouse) House Wren - 1 Turtle Pond Carolina Wren - 1 uphill from Boathouse Golden-crowned Kinglet - 25 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8-12 Eastern Bluebird - Great Lawn (Sandra Critelli) Hermit Thrush - a dozen American Robin - around 50 Cedar Waxwing - 16 (2 flocks) House Finch - 3 Purple Finch - 2 Shakespeare Garden Pine Siskin - 19-20 American Goldfinch - 5 Eastern Towhee - 1 female south side Turtle Pond Chipping Sparrow - 5 or 6 Fox Sparrow - south side Turtle Pond near Castle Song Sparrow - 10 White-throated Sparrow - 60 Dark-eyed Junco - 15 Red-winged Blackbird - singing north end Reservoir (Deb) Common Grackle - around 250 Northern Parula - upholl from Boathouse Black-throated Blue Warbler - male - uphill from Boathouse Palm Warbler - "Yellow" 2 (Great Lawn, Cedar Hill) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond Northern Cardinal - 5 Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC For other NY County birds, like the two Barred Owls at the north end of Central Park today and two reports of Evening Grosbeaks, see the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
