Central Park NYC Sunday & Monday, October 30-31, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Orange-crowned Warbler (Monday), Pine Warbler (Sunday), and Fox Sparrow (Monday). Additional reports at end of list. Sunday/Monday Canada Goose - 3/4 Mallard - 19/8 Mourning Dove - 12/8 Herring Gull - flyovers 15-20/10-15 Great Blue Heron - 1 at Turtle Pond on Sunday Cooper's Hawk - 1 adult female/2 (male & female) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 hatch-year bird on Monday Great Horned Owl - 1 on Sunday (David Barrett) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5/4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4-5/8-10 Downy Woodpecker - 1/3 American Kestrel - 2 males at the Great Lawn Monday Blue Jay - 5-7/5-7 American Crow - 1 heard Sunday Black-capped Chickadee - 3/1 Tufted Titmouse - 40-50/35-45 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4-5/3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3/3 Cedar Waxwing - 3 on Monday Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5/3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 7-9/4-5 Brown Creeper - 2 on Sunday (King of Poland (Edmund Berry), Azalea Pond) Winter Wren - 1 at Strawberry Fields on Monday Carolina Wren - 3-4/3 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Sparrow Rock/1 Strawberry Fields Hermit Thrush - 11-13/3 American Robin - 10-15/8-12 American Goldfinch - 2-3 on Sunday Fox Sparrow - 3 on Monday Dark-eyed Junco - 14/5-7 White-throated Sparrow - 30-40/20-30 Song Sparrow - 2/3 Swamp Sparrow - 1 at Turtle Pond on Sunday Eastern Towhee - 3/5 Icterids - mixed flock of 80 Red-winged Blackbirds & Brown-headed Cowbirds Sunday Common Grackle - a few/flock of 80 Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 at Willow Rock Monday Pine Warbler - 1 female at Shakespeare Garden Sunday Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15-20/10-15 Northern Cardinal - 5-7/5-7 -- Other reports on Sunday among many others via twitter: -- David Barrett reported the first-of-season arrival of a Hooded Merganser at the Reservoir Sunday, continuing on Monday: https://twitter.com/BirdCentralPark/status/1587144332229885955 -- Gigi A @gigi_nyc reported an immature Red-headed Woodpecker at the Pinetum: https://twitter.com/gigi_nyc/status/1586782772034949120 -- Howard Katz @HK7682 reported a Rusty Blackbird at the Gill: https://twitter.com/HK7682/status/1586790848427180032 A photo of the Rusty Blackbird from Scott Dunn @The_SDunn: https://twitter.com/The_SDunn/status/1586872486611886081 -- Bob and I are off to southern Africa again, this time driving through some of the national parks of Namibia and Botswana. Back in mid-December, 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/ --
