Central Park NYC Saturday October 17, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Hooded and Cape May Warblers, Purple Finch, Belted Kingfisher, Black-crowned Night-Heron. Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 8 Cuckoo species - 1 flew from Castle to Turtle Pond Island Herring Gull - flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 adult Upper Lobe (Adam Bagun) Turkey Vulture - 1 circling east of Pinetum (Ryan Serio) Cooper's Hawk - 1 adult female Turtle Pond Island Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Belted Kingfisher - 1 low flyover Oak Bridge Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 20 Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Northern Flicker - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 2 Pinetum Blue-headed Vireo - 3 (Ryan Serio) Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Oak Bridge Blue Jay - 16 American Crow - flyover flock of around 50 Maintenance Field Black-capped Chickadee - 10 Tufted Titmouse - 20 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 6 to 8 White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 House Wren - 3 Winter Wren - 2 in Ramble Carolina Wren - 1 heard at Maintenance Field Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 Top of the Point (Deb) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25 Hermit Thrush - 4 American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 6 or 7 Brown Thrasher - 1 heard at Maintenance Field Northern Mockingbird - 1 Pinetum House Finch - female north end of Maintenance Field Purple Finch - 3 female Pinetum (Ryan Serio) Pine Siskin - 1 north side of Upper Lobe American Goldfinch - 5 Eastern Towhee - 16 (Mark Kolakowski) Chipping Sparrow - 1 Belvedere Castle Song Sparrow - 5 Swamp Sparrow - 1 south side of Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - 60 Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (Tupelo Field & Pinetum) Common Grackle - flyover flock of around 30 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Maintenance field Common Yellowthroat - 2 (north Maintenance Field, Pinetum) Hooded Warbler - male between Maintenance Field & Iphigene's Walk American Redstart - 1 near Boathouse Cape May Warbler - 2 Pinetum Northern Parula - 2 (Maintenance Field & near Boathouse) Magnolia Warbler - 2 (south of Maint. Field (Carine Mitchell), NW Great Lawn) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 near Boathouse Palm Warbler - "Yellow" north end of Locust Grove Pine Warbler - 2 (male Belvedere Castle, female Turtle Pond Dock) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 or 5 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 female Iphigene's Walk (David Barrett) Northern Cardinal - 5 Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC For other Manhattan bird report see alerts on twitter @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
