Central Park NYC Saturday November 4, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Great Blue Heron, American Kestrel, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Pine Siskin Flock. For Indigo Bunting and Painted Bunting reports see end of list. Mallard - 18 Mourning Dove - 20-25 Herring Gull - 15-20 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - 1 immature female Persimmon Slope Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15 Downy Woodpecker - 1 male west side of the Point Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 American Kestrel - 2 Great Lawn Blue Jay - 20-25 American Crow - 15-20 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25-30 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5-10 Cedar Waxwing - 18-20 in two flocks Brown Creeper - 3 Carolina Wren - 3 (2 singing) Winter Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Gray Catbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Brown Thrasher - 3 or 4 Hermit Thrush - 20-25 American Robin - 50-60 Pine Siskin - flock of 25-30 Belvedere Castle Dark-eyed Junco - 5-10 White-throated Sparrow - 200-300 Song Sparrow - 5 or 6 Swamp sparrow - 1 at the Oven Eastern Towhee - 8-10 Red-winged Blackbird - 30-40 Common Grackle - 4 or 5 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Dennis Newsham reported an Indigo Bunting continuing at the Plant Nursery at the north end of Central Park. A Painted Bunting was reported in Morningside Park on the Manhattan Bird Alert maintained by David Barrett @BirdCentralPark on twitter.com -- 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/ --