Central Park NYC Thursday October 12, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, American Coot, White-eyed vireo, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Wood Thrush, Cape May and Other Warblers, Scarlet Tanager. Canada Goose - 24 Mallard - 11 Mourning Dove - 15-20 Chimney Swift - 12-15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden American Coot - 2 southwest Reservoir (Deb - early) Herring and Ring-billed Gulls - around 40 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 adult low flyover at the Point Cooper's Hawk - 3 (1 perched, 2 flyovers) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8-12 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 Eastern Phoebe - 10-12 White-eyed Vireo - 1 Shakespeare Garden Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 18-22 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12-15 Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 8 Carolina Wren - 3 or 4 House Wren - 1 or 2 Winter Wren - 3 or 4 Gray Catbird - 15-20 Brown Thrasher - 2 or 3 Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 Pinetum & foot of Summit Rock (Bob & Deb - early) Swainson's Thrush - 4 or 5 Hermit Thrush - 15-20 Wood Thrush - 5 American Robin - 20-25 White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Song Sparrow - 5-7 Eastern Towhee - 8-10 Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6 Common Grackle - 10-15 Ovenbird - 2 (Ramble, Azalea Pond (Peter Haskel and Dan Stevenson)) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthroat - 1 Tupelo Field American Redstart - 4 or 5 Cape May Warbler - 1 male Belvedere Castle Northern Parula - 4 or 5 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Azalea Pond Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 Palm Warbler - 3 Pine Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden Scarlet Tanager - 2 (Evodia Field, Maintenance Field) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- 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/ --