Central Park NYC Friday September 23, 2022 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Strong northwest winds resulted in a good migration of Broad-winged Hawks over Central Park today visible from just about any space offering an unobstructed look at the sky, Yellow-breasted Chat, 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Prairie, Black-throated Green, and Wilson's Warblers. Thanks to Caren Jahre, Scott Brevda and California birders here for the warblers for spotting so many of the birds on this morning's walk.
Canada Goose - 45 Gadwall - 13 Northern Shoveler - 11 Harlem Meer (Deb - early) Mallard - 65-70 Mourning Dove - around a dozen Chimney Swift - 10-15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 at the Pool (Scott Brevda) Ring-billed Gull - 26 Herring Gull - 53 Great Black-backed Gull - 10 Double-crested Cormorant - 28 Broad-winged Hawk - easily 200 (certainly more flying today) Red-tailed Hawk - 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 at the Loch Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 3-4 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 (Great Hill and the Loch) Eastern Phoebe - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 14 American Crow - flock of 7 Common Raven - 2 low flyovers Maintenance Field (Deb - early afternoon) Cedar Waxwing - 4-6 west of Conservatory Garden House Wren - 2 or 3 Carolina Wren - 1 Plant Nursery Gray Catbird - around a dozen Northern Mockingbird - 1 Plant Nursery Swainson's Thrush - 4 American Robin - around 2 dozen House Finch - 4 American Goldfinch - 5 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 female Green Bench (our first-of-season) Song Sparrow - 3 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 male Maintenance Field (Gig Palileo, Felipe Pimentel, Deb, etc. - early afternoon) Common Grackle - not many Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Loch & Pool) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthroat - 6-8 American Redstart - 8 Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 12 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field (Deb - early afternoon) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males (Loch & Pool) Palm Warbler - 3 Prairie Warbler - 1 male west Blowdown (Scott Brevda) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Green Bench, Grassy Knoll) Wilson's Warbler - 1 west end of the Pool Northern Cardinal - 5 or 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 (1 adult male, 2 females, 1 hatch-year male) -- Northwest winds predicted overnight and into tomorrow, so get out there and bird. Deb Allen -- 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/ --
