Central Park, NYC - Strawberry Fields & Ramble Wedsnesday, October 18, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights. Many more sparrows today than on Monday. No visible dawn flight from 6:45am on. Canada Goose - 2 Lake Mallard - 15 Lake Mourning Dove - residents Herring Gull - flyovers Cooper's Hawk - adult male carrying Northern Flicker over Maintenance Field (flicker escaped) Red-tailed Hawk - local adult over Oak Bridge with Merlin Red-bellied Woodpecker - pairs in Shakespeare Garden & Ramble Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 20 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Shakespeare Garden Northern Flicker - 5 (see also Cooper's Hawk) Merlin - over Oak Bridge with local adult Red-tailed Hawk Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Maintenance Field) Blue-headed Vireo - Strawberry Fields Red-eyed Vireo - Maintenance Field Blue Jay White-breasted Nuthatch - Ramble House Wren - Strawberry Fields Winter Wren - 3 Carolina Wren - Strawberry Fields Golden-crowned Kinglet - 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 40 Hermit Thrush - 5 American Robin - 50-75 in crab apples west of Delacorte Theater restrooms Gray Catbird - 2 Shakespeare Garden Northern Mockingbird - Maintenance Field Brown Thrasher - Ramble Cedar Waxwing - flock of 12 over Strawberry Fields European Starling - around 20 heading north at 6:50am Eastern Towhee - male Strawberry Fields Chipping Sparrow - 10 Song Sparrow - 30 Swamp Sparrow - Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - 75 Dark-eyed Junco 15 Common Grackle - 15 Delacorte Theater Palm Warbler - "Western" Strawberry Fields Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Strawberry Fields Northern Cardinal - residents 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/ --
