Central Park NYC Saturday, October 12, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Nine Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Brown Creeper, Dark-eyed Junco, Scarlet Tanager. Canada Goose - 25 Mute Swan - pair Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 40+ Mourning dove - 5 Chimney Swift - 5 Ring-billed Gull - at least 7 Reservoir Herring gull - 55+ Great Black-backed Gull - 11 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Ramble Cooper's Hawk - 1 Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (flyover Shakespeare Garden, perched Balancing Rock) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 15-25 Downy Woodpecker - 2 males (near Boathouse & Balancing Rock) Northern Flicker - 10-15 American Kestrel - male Great Lawn Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - 3 Tupelo Field White-breasted Nuthatch - heard Tupelo Field Brown Creeper - 1 Shakespeare Garden House Wren - 2 (Pinetum, Tupelo Field) Winter Wren - 5 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 16 Swainson's Thrush - 2 (Gill Source, Winderdale Arch) Hermit Thrush - 10 American Robin - around 60 Gray Catbird - 7 Brown Thrasher - 3 Cedar Waxwing - 3 or 4 in Amur Corktree at Winterdale Arch (Mark Siegeltuch) Chipping Sparrow - Great Lawn Song Sparrow - 30 Swamp Sparrow - 5 White-throated Sparrow - at least 20 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 Great Lawn Eastern Towhee - 10 Common Grackle - 5 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Laupot Bridge & Ramble) Common Yellowthroat - Maintenance Field American Redstart - 3 (1 Tupelo Field (Karen Evans), 2 Balancing Rock) Cape May Warbler - 3 (1 Oven, 2 Pinetum) Northern Parula - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males (Oven, Pinetum) Palm Warbler - "Yellow" 5 Pine Warbler - 3 Pinetum (David Barrett) Black-throated Green Warbler - Oven Scarlet Tanager - 2 females Shakespeare Garden in Crab Apple Northern Cardinal - 7 Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
