Central Park NYC Monday October 23, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a sunny and breezy day: Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, White-eyed Vireo, Tufted Titmouse, Winter Wren, Yellow-breasted Chat, Black-and-white, Cape May, Black-throated Green and other Warblers. Canada Goose - 22 Mallard - 10-15 Mourning Dove - 25-35 Herring Gull - 5-10 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 Ramble near Azalea Pond (Paul Curtis) Turkey Vulture - 6 over 79th Street & 5th Avenue Cooper's Hawk - 2-3 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 1 or 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8-10 Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Eastern Phoebe - 2 or 3 White-eyed Vireo - 1 Tupelo Field (continuing, spotted Sunday by Marcy Katz) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 10-15 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25-30 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6-8 Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 5-7 (Alexandra Wang) Carolina Wren - 1 heard Winter Wren - 2 or 3 Gray Catbird - 6-8 Hermit Thrush - 60-80 American Robin - 30-40 Dark-eyed Junco - 6-8 White-throated Sparrow - 125-150 Song Sparrow - 6 or 7 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Triplet's Bridge (Bob - early am) Eastern Towhee - 8-10 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 continued Swedish Cottage (Peter Haskel) Common Grackle - 20-30 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Strawberry Fields (Bob - early am) Common Yellowthroat - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Bob - early am) Cape May Warbler - 1 Strawberry Fields (Bob - early am) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Iphigene's Walk Pine Warbler - 2 south side of Turtle Pond Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15-20 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 King of Poland (Dan Stevenson) 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/ --