Central Park NYC Thursday November 2, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: American Kestrel, Blue-headed Vireo, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin, Pine and Palm Warblers, Wood Duck and Eastern Bluebird Reports. Canada Goose - 10-15 Northern Shoveler - 90-100 Mallard - 40-50 Bufflehead - 8 Hooded Merganser 5 Ruddy Duck - 7 Mourning Dove - 20-30 American Coot - 2 Reservoir Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - 50-60 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 (one stealing cached prey from an American Kestrel) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5-10 Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 American Kestrel - at least 2 Great Lawn Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Shakespeare Garden Blue Jay - 15-20 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 15-20 Cedar Waxwing - flock of 8-10 Brown Creeper - 1 Pinetum Carolina Wren - 3 or 4 Winter Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Bob - early a.m.) Gray Catbird - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Belvedere Castle) Brown Thrasher - 1 Tupelo Field (Bob - early a.m.) Hermit Thrush - 15-20 American Robin - 20-30 Purple Finch - 4 Pine Siskin - 2 Shakespeare Garden (Bob - early a.m.) American Goldfinch - 1 upper Shakespeare Garden Dark-eyed Junco - 80-100 White-Throated Sparrow - 300+ Song Sparrow - 10-15 Eastern Towhee - 6-8 Red-winged Blackbird - flock of 15-20 Common Grackle - 12-16 Palm Warbler - 12-15 Pine Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Bob - early a.m.) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Jean Shum reported a Wood Duck at the Conservatory Water (a.k.a. Model Boat Pond). Alice Deutsch reported two Eastern Bluebirds at the northwest Great Lawn. -- Deb Allen -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
