Central Park North End, NYC Friday October 9, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Barred Owl, Eleven Species of Wood Warblers, Pine Siskin, and a nice variety of Sparrows. Canada Goose - 45 Mallard - around 50 Northern Shoveler - 13 Ruddy Duck - 7 Mourning Dove - 15 Chimney Swift - 1 over the Green Bench Ring-billed Gull - 40 Herring Gull - 10 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 or 4 Cooper's Hawk - 3 (Enrico Leonardi) Barred Owl - perched at the Loch Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 7 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Grassy Knoll Northern Flicker - 10 flyovers Empidonax Flycatcher - Grassy Knoll Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay around 15 American Crow - 6 headed North (early-morning RDC) Black-capped Chickadee - 2 (Wildflower Meadow (Jordana Mattioli) & the Loch) Tufted Titmouse - around a dozen Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 North Meadow Ball Fields (RDC - early) White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 House Wren - 1 Grassy Knoll Winter Wren - 3 Carolina Wren - singing at the Compost Area Golden-crowned Kinglet - around 7 along the Loch Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 Swainson's Thrush - 4 Hermit Thrush - around 8 early in the morning American Robin - around 15 Gray Catbird - 5 Brown Thrasher - 1 Compost Area Northern Mockingbird - 1 Cedar Waxwing - flock of 10 House Finch - around 5 Purple Finch - around 7 (all females) Pine Siskin - 30 in one flock American Goldfinch - around 10 Eastern Towhee - 3 Chipping Sparrow - 7 Field Sparrow - 1 Plant Nursery (Deb) Song Sparrow - 25 Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 North Meadow Ball Fields Swamp Sparrow - 7 White-throated Sparrow - 30 White-crowned Sparrow - 1 hatch-year bird Plant Nursery Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Plant Nursery (Deb) Common Grackle - 15 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Compost Area Nashville Warbler - 1 Compost Area (Enrico Leonardi) Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 1 west side Wildflower Meadow (Jordana Mattioli) Northern Parula - around 7 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Blackpoll Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 Palm Warbler - 3 Pine Warbler - 2 (Green Bench & Grassy Knoll) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Northern Cardinal - 5 Indigo Bunting - 1 Plant Nursery (Deb) -- Late-breaking Bulletin: Ethan Goodman @emginnyc reported on twitter that the American Golden-Plover had returned to the north end of Randall's Island at Field 34 at around 6:07pm. -- 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/ --
