Central Park NYC Sunday October 11, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Barred Owl, Thirteen species of Wood Warblers including Hooded and Blue-winged Warblers, Pine Siskin. Canada Goose - 20 Northern Shoveler - at least 30 Gadwall - 20 Mallard - 45 American Black Duck - male at the Pool (Deb) Ruddy Duck - 45-50 Mourning Dove - 15 Chimney Swift - 3 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 250, mostly Ring-billed Gulls Great Black-backed Gull - a dozen Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 2 (flyover adult Pinetum, immature perched Maintenance Field) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (adult at top of Oven, immature flyover Compost Area) Barred Owl - continued at the Loch* Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 15 Downy woodpecker - 2 (Maintenance Field & near Boathouse) Northern Flicker - 5 Eastern Phoebe - Compost Area (Deb) Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Tupelo Field Blue Jay - 12 American Crow - 3 Black-capped Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 20 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 6 White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 Brown Creeper - 2 (Pinetum & near Boathouse) Winter Wren - 5 Carolina Wren - 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - a dozen Swainson's Thrush - 1 Tupelo field Hermit Thrush - 4 Wood Thrush - 1 Ramble American Robin - 55-60 Gray Catbird - 7 Brown Thrasher - 2 in Ramble House Finch - 4 Pine Siskin - 35-40 Pinetum American Goldfinch - 3 Eastern Towhee - 8 Song Sparrow - a dozen Lincoln's Sparrow - Compost Area (Deb) Swamp Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 60 White-crowned Sparrow - 1 or 2 hatch-year birds Compost Area (Deb) Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Compost Area (Deb) Common Grackle - 20-30 Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Pool & Loch - Deb) Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Tupelo field Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthrroat - 5 Hooded Warbler - 1 near Boathouse (Andrea Hessel, MD) American Redstart - adult male King of Poland Cape May Warbler - 1 Pinetum (Sandra Critelli) Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 (female Pinetum, male Tupelo Field) Pine Warbler - 1 male Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Tupelo Field Northern Cardinal - 8 Indigo Bunting - 1 Compost Area (Deb) -- *the Barred Owl was first reported this morning by @Above96th via the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- Later on, at 2:39pm Bob spotted two Common Nighthawks flying over the American Golden-Plover that was foraging on a mudflat in the Bronx Kill on the NW side of Randall's Island. Also in the area, a female American Kestrel and male Belted Kingfisher. Thanks Gloria Hong for re-finding and reporting the American Golden-Plover today, a bird subsequently seen and photographed by many. -- Roger Pasquier reported a Vesper Sparrow at the Pinetum on Friday Oct. 9th. -- 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/ --
