Central Park, NYC Sunday September 19, 2021 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Eastern Phoebe, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Bald Eagle, American Kestrel, 16 Wood Warbler Species including Cape May, Hooded, and Yellow-rumped warblers. Canada Goose - 4 Mallard - 18 Mourning Dove - 10-15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Maintenance Field Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Oven, Maintenance Field) Chimney Swift - around 30 Herring Gull - 20 Great Black-backed Gull - 7 Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover Maintenance Field Bald Eagle - adult flyover Sparrow Rock Red-tailed Hawk - 2 or 3 (1 perched Sparrow Rock, 1 perched Gill Source, 1 flyover) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Shakespeare Garden Northern Flicker - 7-10 American Kestrel - 1 flyover Belvedere Castle Eastern Phoebe - 1 Turtle Pond Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 3-5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Maintenance Field, Shakespeare Garden) House Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - singing at Maintenance Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 Swainson's Thrush - 40-60 Wood Thrush - 1 Maintenance Field American Robin - 20-30 Gray Catbird - 10-15 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Sparrow Rock Cedar Waxwing - 25 in 3 flocks House Finch - singing from flock of 4-6 Common Grackle - 3-5 Ovenbird - 2 in Ramble Black-and-white Warbler - 4-7 Common Yellowthroat - 3-5 Hooded Warbler - 1 hatch-year male Evodia Field American Redstart - 5-10 Cape May Warbler - 2 Maintenance Field Northern Parula - 8-12 Magnolia Warbler - 5 or 6 Yellow Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Sandra Critelli) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (Maintenance field, Hill west of Boathouse) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 females (Maintenance Field, Shakespeare Garden) Palm Warbler - 1 north side of Turtle Pond Pine Warbler - 2 Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field (David Barrett) Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Ramble (Randall Rothenberg) Scarlet Tanager - 1 adult male Sparrow Rock (Sandra Critelli) Northern Cardinal - 3-5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 -- On Saturday (9/18) two Common Nighthawks were observed flying over Sparrow Rock late in the afternoon by several birders including Sandra Critelli. -- Deb Allen
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