Central Park NYC Monday October 16, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-breasted Chat, Black-and-white, Tennessee, Nashville, Cape May, and Other Wood Warblers. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers continue in the park actively feeding in willows and Siberian elms, producing sap that attracts warblers and kinglets. See warblers mentioned in willows at Belvedere Castle in the list below. Canada Goose - 18-25 Mallard - 5-10 Mourning Dove - 25-35 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Shakespeare Garden Ring-billed Gull - 15 Herring Gull - 25-30 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 adults (Hernshead & Lake shore farther south) Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 flyover (Paul Curtis) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 25-30 Downy Woodpecker - 2 males (Azalea Pond, Swampy Pin Oak) Northern Flicker - 15-20 American Kestrel - over 72nd Street & Columbus Avenue (Deb - 8am) Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 20-25 American Crow - 12-16 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25-30 Brown Creeper - 1 Strawberry Fields (Bob - early) Carolina Wren - 2 or 3 House Wren - 2 (Belvedere Castle & Sparrow Rock) Winter Wren - 3 or 4 Gray Catbird - 5-10 Brown Thrasher - 2 (south side of Turtle Pond) Swainson's Thrush - 1 Sparrow Rock (Deb - after lunch) Hermit Thrush - 75-100 American Robin - 25-35 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 White-crowned Sparrow - 2 (1 adult, 1 hatch-year) north side of Maintenance Field White-throated Sparrow - 200-300 Song Sparrow - 15-20 Swamp Sparrow - 4 or 5 Eastern Towhee - 10-15 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 continued in upper & lower Shakespeare Garden Common Grackle - 5-8 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 male Oven/Willow Rock Tennessee Warbler - 1 in willow Belvedere Castle Nashville Warbler - 1 in willow Belvedere Castle Common Yellowthroat - 1 Shakespeare Garden American Redstart - 1 Strawberry Fields (Bob - early) Cape May Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 (female Shakespeare Garden, male Belvedere Castle) Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Strawberry Fields Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal - 8-10 -- 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/ --
