Central Park, NYC Sunday, October 1, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 3 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee & 4 or 5 Cape May Warblers. The feeders at Evodia Field have been filled, but not many birds visiting them yet. No dawn flight observed from Belvedere Castle with Bob & Deb watching until around 7:10am, just a few Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers and Northern Flickers flying at low altitude in the area of Shakespeare, Delacorte Theater, and Turtle Pond. Gadwall - 2 Turtle Pond (Deb & Bob 6:30am) Mallard - 14 Turtle Pond Chimney Swift - 20+ in flight together over Shakespeare Garden (Judy Belluardo) Herring Gull - flyovers Sharp-shinned Hawk - carrying another bird, a.k.a. breakfast, over Turtle Pond, landing on south side 7:02am (Bob) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults circling over Shakespeare Garden (Mark Siegeltuch) Red-bellied Woodpecker - west side of Great Lawn (Barbara Green) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10 (Pinetum and Shakespeare Garden the best spots today) Downy Woodpecker - Shakespeare Garden Northern Flicker - 7 Eastern Phoebe - 7 (Tupelo Field, Maintenance Field, Pinetum, etc.) Blue-headed Vireo - 4 (Shakespeare Garden, Pinetum (Sandra Critelli), west side Great Lawn, Azalea Pond) Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - several locations, 6 flying together over Tupelo Field American Crow - flyover Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Shakespeare Garden (Barbara Green) White-breasted Nuthatch - uphill from the Boathouse House Wren - 5 Winter Wren - 3 (2 Azalea Pond, 1 Tupelo Field) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 12 (Pinetum and Shakespeare Garden the best spots today) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 Swainson's Thrush - Azalea Pond Hermit Thrush - Azalea Pond (Sandra Critelli) Wood Thrush - west of Balancing Rock & south Evodia Field (Randall Rothenberg) American Robin - many locations Gray Catbird - feeding on berries in many locations Brown Thrasher - 4 Cedar Waxwing - heard European Starling - around 20 in flight at Turtle Pond just before Sharp-shinned Hawk flew past with breakfast House Finch - Maintenance Field Eastern Towhee - male west side Great Lawn Field Sparrow - west side Great Lawn (Deb) Song Sparrow - Maintenance Field White-throated Sparrow Common Grackle - not many, but some looking for acorns Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Tennessee Warbler - Maintenance Field Common Yellowthroat - 3 (Maintenance Field (Signe Hammer), Tupelo Field, Iphigene's Walk) American Redstart - 10 Cape May Warbler - 4 or 5 Northern Parula - 8 (Jane Kosovsky & others) Magnolia Warbler - 3 (Pinetum (Matt Hall), King of Poland, Maintenance Field) Chestnut-sided Warbler - Maintenance Field (Teresa Michna & Sandra Critelli) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (female Shakespeare Garden, female Azalea Pond (Elizabeth Millard), male Maint. Fld.) Palm Warbler - "Yellow" Tupelo Field Pine Warbler - King of Poland Yellow-rumped Warbler - King of Poland (Barbara Green) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (female King of Poland, Northern Cardinal - pair sitting on freshly-filled feeder at Evodia Field Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 (Balancing Rock & the Point) Another Good Day for Hooded Warblers: Bradley Kane showed us a photo he'd taken of a female Hooded Warbler seen twice at Summer House Meadow/Swampy Pin Oak (tweeted from @WinoBradNY). Alice Deutsch tweeted a Hooded Warbler at Azalea Pond at 11:01am (@AliceDeutsch). Miriam Rakowski reported a male Hooded Warbler at Tanner's Spring. Miriam also reported an Ovenbird at Balancing Rock/Captain's Bench. Follow us on twitter @DAllenNYC Deb Allen -- 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/ --
