Central Park NYC Saturday September 12, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Blue-winged & Pine Warblers, Black-billed Cuckoo, Green-winged Teal, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Some evidence of diurnal raptor migration with Bald Eagle and Osprey overhead. Canada Goose - 8 Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - female Turtle Pond Mallard 15 - Turtle Pond & the Lake Green-winged Teal - female Turtle Pond (reported earlier by Stephen Dunn) Mourning Dove - 6 Black-billed Cuckoo - Upper Lobe Chimney Swift - 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Tupelo Field & Shakespeare Garden) Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Green Heron - flyover Osprey - flyover Bald Eagle - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Northern Flicker - 5 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 or 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 (Top of the Point, King of Poland) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - east of Azalea Pond Warbling Vireo - Oven Red-eyed Vireo - 12-15 Blue Jay - 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 7 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Tupelo Field, Maintenance Field) House Wren - 2 Belvedere Castle Carolina Wren - 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - uphill from Boathouse Cafe Veery - 7 Swainson's Thrush - 2 Warbler Rock Wood Thrush - 1 Warbler Rock American Robin - 10 Gray Catbird - 5 Cedar Waxwing - 3 flyover flocks Purple Finch - heard at Maintenance Field (David Barrett) White-throated Sparrow - Chez Armando Baltimore Oriole - Gill Overlook (Sandra Critelli) Common Grackle - 45 Northern Watertrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Maintenance Field, Shakespeare Garden) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 Common Yellowthroat - 10-12 American Redstart - a dozen including 2 adult males Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 4 Yellow Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Pine Warbler - 2 (Oven, South side Turtle Pond) our FOS, but reported Friday Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle & path east of Castle) Canada Warbler - east of Azalea Pond Scarlet Tanager - 2 Shakespeare Garden Northern Cardinal - 2 or 3 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - hatch-year male Boathouse Cafe 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/ --