Central Park NYC Sunday, October 8, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a Breezy Autumn Day: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Swainson's and Hermit Thrushes, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Chipping, Field, Song, and Swamp Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos, Seven Species of Wood Warblers, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 4 Mourning Dove - 15-20 Chimney Swift - flock of around 30 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Belvedere Castle Herring Gull - 4 or 5 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Delacorte Theater (Deb - early) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 or 6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 4-6 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Great Lawn (Andrea Hessel) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 12-16 American Crow - 16-18 flyovers Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 Brown Creeper - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 5 or 6 Winter Wren - 1 Evodia Field Gray Catbird - 15-20 Brown Thrasher - 4 or 5 Swainson's Thrush - 3 or 4 Hermit Thrush - 4 or 5 American Robin - 40-45 (some flying south) Chipping Sparrow - 3 or 4 Field Sparrow - 1 Belvedere Castle (Edmund Berry) Dark-eyed Junco - 5 or 6 White-throated Sparrow - 8-10 Song Sparrow - 2 or 3 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Ramble Eastern Towhee - 2 or 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Belvedere Castle Common Yellowthroat - 2 (Tupelo Field, Sparrow Rock) American Redstart - 4 or 5 Northern Parula - 1 Belvedere Castle Overlook Magnolia Warbler - 2 (Tupelo Field, upper Shakespeare Garden) Palm Warbler - 1 Pinetum (Edmund Berry) Pine Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden Northern Cardinal - 6-8 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 Willow Rock -- 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/ --