Central Park NYC Sunday September 27, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Twelve Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May & Wilson's Warblers, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Brown Thrasher, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Tufted Titmouse. Mallard - 8 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 10 Chimney Swift - 10 Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Oak Bridge) Northern Flicker - 7 or 8 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Pinetum Empidonax Flycatcher - Maintenance Field Blue Jay - 45 including flyover flock of 30 southbound migrants American Crow - flock of 5 flyovers, also heard Tufted Titmouse - 2 King of Poland Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 House Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 east of Azalea Pond (RDC - early) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 Swainson's Thrush - 2 in Ramble American Robin - 30-40 Gray Catbird - 5 Brown Thrasher - 10-12 Cedar Waxwing - 2 (Pinetum, east of Azalea Pond) House Finch - 5 American Goldfinch - 2 Shakespeare Garden Eastern Towhee - 2 (male & female in Ramble) Song Sparrow - 2 Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - 8-10 Common Grackle - 3 Ovenbird - 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (NW Great Lawn, Turtle Pond) Common Yellowthroat - 2 (male & female Cleopatra's Needle) Cape May Warbler - 2 (Pinetum & Oak Bridge) Northern Parula - 8 or 9 Magnolia Warbler - 3 blackpoll Warbler - near Delacorte Theater Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 (male near Boathouse, female near Delacorte Theater) Pine Warbler - 2 Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - near Delacorte Theater (Ryan Serio) Wilson's Warbler - Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 Yesterday, 9/26/20 Brad Kane found a Connecticut (adult female or hatch-year male) at the Pinetum, reporting the bird on twitter @WinoBradNY and on the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark. It wouldn't hurt to look for this bird there again today. 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/ --
