Central Park NYC Saturday September 24, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Although many areas of Central Park including Shakespeare Garden, Belvedere Castle, Sparrow Rock, and the Pinetum were inaccessible this morning starting at around 7am, northwest winds meant it was another good day for Broad-winged Hawk migration. Other migrants: Turkey Vulture, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Blue Jay, Cedar Waxwing, Philadelphia Vireo, Winter Wren, Gray-cheeked Thrush, and 18 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Cape May, and Bay-breasted Warblers. Canada Goose - 16 Northern Shoveler - 9 Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 22 Chimney Swift - 15-20 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 Herring Gull - 3 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 4 flyovers Turkey Vulture - 5 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Tupelo Field (David Barrett) Broad-winged Hawk - 502 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 first-cycle (immature) over Tupelo Field (local bird) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 1 male at the Oven Northern Flicker - 9 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Tupelo Field Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Willow Rock Philadelphia Vireo - 1 Willow Rock Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 35-40 most in small southbound flocks American Crow - 6 Cedar Waxwing - 63 in a southbound flock Bow Bridge Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Maintenance Field White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 House Wren - 1 Maintenance Field Winter Wren - 2 Azalea Pond (first-of-season) Carolina Wren - 2-3 heard in Ramble Gray Catbird - 15-20 Gray-cheeked Thrush - 3 Swainson's Thrush - 9-12 Wood Thrush - 6-8 American Robin - 10-15 White-throated Sparrow - 1 Upper Lobe Lawn Song Sparrow - Triplet's Bridge Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 2 in the Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 8-12 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field Common Yellowthroat - 15-20 American Redstart - 8-12 Cape May Warbler - 6 Northern Parula - 20-15 Magnolia Warbler - 10-12 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 Bow Bridge (Mathieu Benoit) Blackburnian Warbler - 1 Bow Bridge (Mathieu Benoit) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field Blackpoll Warbler - 3-4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 8-12 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (Persimmon Slope, Triplet's Bridge) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 or 3 Canada Warbler - 1 Azalea Pond (Mathieu Benoit) Wilson's Warbler - 1 female Belvedere Castle (Bob & Deb - early) Scarlet Tanager - 1 Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 1 Maintenance Field Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 8-12 -- Suresh @SEaswarNYC reported a Nashville Warbler in Shakespeare Garden on twitter. Doug Futuyma reported a Brown Creeper. For timely reports of Manhattan and Central Park Birds @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett is an excellent resource. -- 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/ --
