Central Park NYC Sunday, October 13, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Seven Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Belted Kingfisher, Brown Creeper, Swainson's, Hermit and Wood thrushes, Golden- and Ruby-crowned kinglets. Canada Goose - 55-60 Northern Shoveler - 2 Turtle Pond (Deb - early) Gadwall - heard Reservoir Mallard - 15 Rock Pigeon - around 40 outside Boathouse Cafe Mourning Dove - 11 Chimney Swift - 4 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - circa 50 Reservoir & flyover Herring Gulls Great Black-backed Gull - 6 reservoir Double-crested cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - 2 (Tupelo Field & Warbler Rock) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Belted Kingfisher - female Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 to 9 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 15 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Northern Flicker - 2 (Locust Grove, Shakespeare Garden) American Kestrel - male perched over Turtle Pond Dock mobbed by Blue Jay Eastern Phoebe - 1 Tupelo Field Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 10 to 15 American Crow - 7 (flyover flock of 6 & straggler Upper Lobe) Brown Creeper - Azalea Pond (Val from Minnesota) House Wren - Tupelo Field Winter Wren - 2 (Ramble & Shakespeare Garden) Carolina Wren - 2 pairs (Oak Bridge & Belvedere Castle) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 13 Swainson's Thrush - Mugger's Woods Hermit Thrush - 12 Wood Thrush - stream south of Azalea Pond (Dan Stevenson) American Robin - 30 to 40 Gray Catbird - 12 Northern Mockingbird - flyover Great Lawn Brown Thrasher 4 Chipping Sparrow - 4 Pinetum Song Sparrow - 16 Swamp Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 20 to 30 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 or 4 Tupelo Field Eastern Towhee - 6 Common Grackle - 7 Ovenbird - east of Azalea Pond Common Yellowthroat - 2 (Maintenance Field & Tupelo Field) American Redstart - 2 (Maintenance Field) Cape May Warbler - first-fall female Pinetum Northern Parula - 3 (Boathouse, Balancing Rock, Azalea Pond (Dan Stevenson)) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 females (Pinetum & Azalea Pond) Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" (Summer House & Pinetum) Northern Cardinal - 6 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/ --
