Central Park NYC Sunday October 15, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, American Bittern, Red-shouldered Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, White-crowned Sparrow, Yellow-breasted Chat. Canada Goose - 16-20 Mallard - 8-12 Mourning Dove - 20-25 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Ring-billed Gull - 10-15 Herring Gull - 20-25 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir American Bittern - 1 Maintenance Field Turkey Vulture - 4 Cooper's Hawk - 3 (1 perched after-hatch-year bird, 2 flyovers) Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 flyover adult Red-tailed Hawk - 1 or 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Ramble Northern Flicker - 4-6 Peregrine Falcon - 1 in flight over west 90th Street Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Great Lawn & Ramble) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (1 King of Poland, 1 near Boathouse) Blue Jay - 15-20 American Crow - 12 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 or 4 Cedar Waxwing - 2 upper Shakespeare Garden Brown Creeper - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 1 Belvedere Castle Winter Wren - 3 or 4 Gray Catbird - 5-10 Swainson's Thrush - 1 upper Shakespeare Garden Hermit Thrush - 100-125 American Robin - 10-15 Chipping Sparrow - around 40 Field Sparrow - 1 Sparrow Rock (Sandra Critelli) Dark-eyed Junco - 15-20 White-crowned Sparrow - 1 adult "Eastern" upper Shakespeare Garden White-throated Sparrow - 50-75 Song Sparrow - 20-25 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 (Dan Stevenson & Peter Haskel) Swamp Sparrow - 4-6 Eastern Towhee - 8-10 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 male upper Shakespeare Garden Common Grackle - 5-7 Common Yellowthroat - 3 Palm Warbler - 1 Great Lawn Pine Warbler - 2 (King of Poland, Shakespeare Garden) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 Northern Cardinal - 7-9 -- Elizabeth Paredes reported a Black-billed Cuckoo, Cape May Warbler, and Scarlet Tanager at the Swedish Cottage. David Barrett reported an American Kestrel perched at the northwest corner of the Great Lawn. Both reports appeared on the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark on twitter.com a.k.a. "X." -- 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/ --
