Central Park NYC Saturday October 24, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Six species of Wood Warblers including Black-and-white and Black-throated Blue Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Pine Siskin, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Belvedere Castle Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 1 over Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Pinetum Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Evodia Field Feeders Northern Flicker - 1 Sparrow Rock Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - small southbound flocks totaling 25 birds Crow species - 2 over Pinetum Black-capped Chickadee - 22 Tufted Titmouse - 25 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Pinetum White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Brown Creeper - 1 NW Great Lawn Winter Wren - 1 Pinetum Carolina Wren - 2 Belvedere Castle Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 30 Swainson's Thrush - 1 Ramble Hermit Thrush - 7 American Robin - 20, plus flocks of southbound migrants overhead Gray Catbird - 5 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Cedar Waxwing - flock of 7 Shakespeare Garden House Finch - 2 south side of Turtle Pond Purple Finch - 7 including one adult male Belvedere Castle Pine Siskin - 50 in two flocks (30 Shakespeare Garden, 20 Pinetum) Eastern Towhee - 9 Chipping Sparrow - around 40 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Maintenance Field (RDC 7:05am) Song Sparrow - 1 Tupelo Field White-throated Sparrow - 71 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 Common Grackle - around 125 (flocks of southbound migrants) Black-and-white Warbler - 1 uphill from Boathouse Common Yellowthroat - 1 first-fall female south side of Turtle Pond Black-throated Blue Warbler - male Evodia Field (location of feeders) Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" (Evodia Field feeders, Pinetum) Pine Warbler - 2 (NW Great Lawn, Pinetum) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 Northern Cardinal - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 Shakespeare Garden -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC For additional Manhattan birds today see the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
