Central Park NYC Monday September 20, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Northern Flicker, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Eastern Phoebe, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, White-throated Sparrow, and nine species of Wood Warblers including Palm Warbler. Canada Goose - 4 Mallard - 5 Mourning Dove - 7-10 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Turtle Pond Dock (Bob - early) Chimney Swift - 10-20 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 1 circling over the Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Ramble Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Maintenance Field Northern Flicker - 25-30 with at least 20 of them flying north* Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Strawberry fields Eastern Phoebe - 3 Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 Humming Tombstone Red-eyed Vireo - 5-8 Blue Jay - 5-10 Carolina Wren - heard Maintenance field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3-5 Swainson's Thrush - 4-7 American Robin - 15-25 Gray Catbird - 5-10 Brown Thrasher - 3 in tupelo at Tupelo Field** Cedar Waxwing - flock of 15 Tupelo Field House Finch - 3-5 White-throated Sparrow - 3-5 Common Grackle - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 5-7 Common Yellowthroat - 3-5 American Redstart - 6-8 Northern Parula - 25-35 Magnolia Warbler - 3-5 Yellow Warbler - 1 male Wagoner's Cove Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Gill Overlook Palm Warbler - 1 Strawberry Fields (Mark Kolakowski and Paul Curtis) Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Persimmon Slope (Paul Curtis) Northern Cardinal - 3-5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4-7 -- *Newly arrived migrants to an area sometimes reorient themselves, a behavior more likely to be seen early in the day. **The high-fat berries of Black Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), a.k.a.Sour Gum, are a good source of energy for migratory birds including thrushes, mimic thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers. -- Deb Allen
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