Central Park NYC Sunday October 14, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: the parade of fall migrants continued with ten Species of Wood Warblers, Wilson's Snipe, Bald Eagle, and Osprey. Canada Goose - heard on the Lake Northern Shoveler - 5 Turtle Pond Mallard - 5 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 2 Pinetum Chimney Swift - 10 Wilson's Snipe - Great Lawn (Arthur Shipee and Carine Mitchell) Herring Gull - flyovers Osprey - FOV migrant Great Lawn Cooper's Hawk - female with pigeon near Summer House Bald Eagle - one-year-old over Great Lawn (migrant) Red-tailed Hawk - immature over Great Lawn Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10 to 20 Northern Flicker American Kestrel - 2 migrants over Tupelo Field, local male Great Lawn Eastern Phoebe - 3 (Maintenance Field, Upper Lobe, Balancing Rock) Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - some migrants heading south mostly before 8am American Crow - family of 5 feeding on Pin Oak Acorns in Ramble Black-capped Chickadee - at least 3 Tufted Titmouse - at least 20 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 15 White-breasted Nuthatch - 9-12 Brown Creeper - 3 (2 at the Oven, 1 Laupot Bridge) House Wren - Shakespeare Garden Winter Wren - 4 or 5 (Sol Grysman) Carolina Wren - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 Shakespeare Garden Swainson's Thrush - 3 or 4 Hermit Thrush - 10-20 American Robin - around 30 Gray Catbird - few Brown Thrasher - 2 (Maintenance Field, Pinetum) Cedar Waxwing - 7 all hatch-year birds Sparrow Rock House Finch - Sparrow Rock American Goldfinch - 3 Eastern Towhee - 4 Chipping Sparrow - sparrow Rock Song Sparrow - 3 or 4 White-throated Sparrow - common Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthroat - 5 or 6 American Redstart - near Boathouse (Gillian Henry) Northern Parula - 4 Magnolia Warbler - 3 (Laupot Bridge, Great Lawn, Maintenance Field) Blackpoll Warbler - 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 females Palm Warbler - "Yellow" (Great Lawn & Maintenance Field) Pine Warbler - near King of Poland Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting - Tupelo Field -- Roger Pasquier reported a Nashville Warbler at the north end of the Maintenance field at around 8am. -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
