Central Park NYC Saturday September 26, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Wilson's and Cape May Warblers, uptick in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Blue Jay, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and Brown Thrasher, Tufted Titmouse. Canada Goose - 10 Mallard - 12 Mourning Dove 10 Chimney Swift - 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 at the Oven Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Double-crested Cornorant - 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 1 adult perched near Delacorte Theater Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 9 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 7 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Pinetum Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 Maintenance field Eastern Phoebe - 1 Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Sparrow Rock Red-eyed Vireo - 6 Blue Jay - around 30 American Crow - 5, also heard Tufted Titmouse - 1 - finally seen again after a long absence (our FOS) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 20-25 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden House Wren - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance Field) Winter Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 2 Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell) Golden-crowned Kinglet - seen on Friday 9/25 West side of Wildflower Meadow Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7 Veery - 1 in Amur Cork east of Azalea Pond Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - 10 Gray Catbird - around 15 Brown Thrasher - 8 Eastern Towhee - 2 (female at Upper Lobe, male west side of Great Lawn) White-throated Sparrow - 4 Common Grackle - around 60 Ovenbird - 4 Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Upper Lobe, Gill Source, King of Poland - C. Mitchell) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 Common Yellowthroat - 4 American Redstart - 15 Cape May Warbler - 2 (Pinetum & Upper Lobe) Northern Parula - 15 Magnolia Warbler - 7 Yellow Warbler - 1 Oven Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Mugger's Woods Palm Warbler - 1 "Western" Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell) Pine Warbler - 3 Wilson's Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell) Northern Cardinal - 5 to 7 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 Indigo Bunting - 1 Upper Lobe 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/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/ --
