Central Park NYC Sunday October 16, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Highlights: Eight species of Wood Warblers. Fewer Black-capped Chickadees in Shakespeare Garden than earlier in the week. No early morning flight today, and no raptor migration observed over the park. Canada Goose - 5 Upper Lobe, 82 Reservoir (before walk) most flying out at around 7:30am Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond, earlier a flock of 9 Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 8 Reservoir (before walk) Ruddy Duck - around 120 SE and SW Reservoir (before walk) Mourning Dove - singles & small flocks many locations American Coot - 1 Reservoir east side (before walk) Laughing Gull - first-cycle bird flying east from Reservoir 7:40am Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - more than 150 at 7:30am, many flyover Herring Gulls on walk Great Black-backed Gull - around 20 at 7:30am Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir 7:30am Red-tailed hawk - hatch-year perched Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - at least 8 in the Pinetum, others elsewhere Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - few Eastern Phoebe - 3 Turtle Pond, NW Great Lawn, Maintenance Field Blue-headed Vireo - Maintenance Field Blue Jay American Crow - flock of 13 over Great Lawn & Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - widely-distributed Tufted Titmouse - at least 10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - at least 6 (Pinetum & Shakespeare Garden) White-breasted Nuthatch - fewer than last week Winter Wren - Turtle Pond & Gill Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Maintenance Field (Sandra Critelli) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 30 Swainson's Thrush - Balancing Rock (Andrea Hessel) Hermit Thrush - 3 or 4 (Shakespeare Garden, Balancing Rock, Gill) American Robin - many Gray Catbird - Upper Lobe Cedar Waxwing - hatch-year bird Shakespeare Garden, others heard Ovenbird - Mugger's Woods close to Tupelo Field Nashville Warbler - hatch-year the Point (thanks to Gabriel Willow), adult Balancing Rock (photo Sandra Critelli after lunch) Common Yellowthroat - Turtle Pond (before walk) Northern Parula - 2 Pinetum Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Gill Overlook (Deb & Sandra after lunch)) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (male Pinetum, male Shakespeare Garden, female Oven) Pine Warbler - Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - numerous many in Siberian Elms with sapsuckers, also foraging on lawns Eastern Towhee - female west side Great Lawn, Oven, others heard Chipping Sparrow - Pinetum Song Sparrow - several Maintenance Field Swamp Sparrow - Laupot Bridge after lunch White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - 2 Pinteum Northern Cardinal - residents Common Grackle Deb Allen Sandra Critelli reported at Black-crowned Night-Heron at the 59th Street Pond after the walk. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
