Central Park NYC Sunday, October 31, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: American Kestrel, Eastern Phoebe, Purple Finch, Pine, Palm, & Yellow-rumped Warblers. Canada Goose - 10 Mallard - 16 Mourning Dove - 5-10 Herring Gull - 5-10 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3-5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8-12 Downy Woodpecker - 1 near Boathouse Northern Flicker - 3 (1 chased by Am. Kestrel at Great Lawn) American Kestrel - 1 male hunting at Great Lawn Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Oven, Pinetum) Blue-headed Vireo - Delacorte Theater (Sandra Critelli) Blue Jay - 5-10 American Crow - flock of 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Pientum Brown Creeper - 1 Pinetum Carolina Wren - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7-10 Hermit thrush - 50-75 American robin - 25-35 Gray Catbird - 2 (Maintenance Field, Shakespeare Garden) House Finch - 2 east side of Azalea Pond Purple Finch - 2 (male & female) Ramble Chipping Sparrow - 9 Dark-eyed Junco - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 20-25 Song Sparrow - 8-10 Eastern Towhee - 1 female at the Oven Red-winged Blackbird - flock of 11 at Sparrow Rock (David Barrett) Common Grackle - 3 flyovers (with flyover American Robins) Palm Warbler - 1 eyed by Am. Kestrel at Great Lawn Pine Warbler - 1 Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Pinetum Northern Cardinal - 5-7 -- The Yellow-breasted Chat continued for another day at Verizon Plaza west of Bryant Park. Regarding the winter finch forecast, while in Hawk Ridge in Duluth in mid-October Bob & I saw a small flock of White-winged Crossbills and many flocks of migrating Purple Finches. -- Happy Diwali and Happy Halloween, Deb Allen
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