Some, of many birds for Central Park (in Manhattan, N.Y. City), on Saturday, Oct. 29th included:
Snow Goose (still modest no's., the typical high-in-sky migrators) Atlantic Brant (further flights, as in most-recent days) Canada Goose Wood Duck (multiple, including those long lingering drakes) Northern Shoveler Gadwall Mallard American Black Duck Green-winged Teal (ongoing) Ruddy Duck -- Pied-billed Grebe [feral type] Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove American Coot Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Common Loon (overhead) Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture (migrators) Sharp-shinned Hawk (migrators) Cooper's Hawk (including migrators) Bald Eagle (migrators) Red-shouldered Hawk (migrators) Red-tailed Hawk (including migrators) Great Horned Owl (ongoing for manhattan) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern [Yellow-shafted] Flicker American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Eastern Phoebe Blue-headed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Carolina Wren European Starling Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Eastern Bluebird Gray-cheeked Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Cedar Waxwing House Sparrow House Finch Purple Finch (plenty, ongoing and newly arriving) Pine Siskin (a fair flight of this species with more of the next species’ arriving, as well) American Goldfinch (further arrivals as is expected in these coming weeks & onward) -- Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow [Red] Fox Sparrow (still modest no’s., main arrivals likely yet to come along) [Slate-colored] Dark-eyed Junco White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Eastern Towhee -- Baltimore Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle — Ovenbird (with others also around the county) Orange-crowned Warbler (same comment as prior species.) Nashville Warbler (same comment as above) Common Yellowthroat (same comment as above) Cape May Warbler (same comment as above) Northern Parula (same comment as above) Palm Warbler (same comment as above) Pine Warbler (same comment as above) [Myrtle] Yellow-rumped Warbler (still in fair numbers) -- & Northern Cardinal - and likely at least some other species on the day. Thanks to the 100++ active observers there at Central Park during all times of the day, which ended on a rather mild note, in brilliant sun for the afternoon. Further reports on birds of all of N.Y. County to come. - - - … The Canada Warbler noted from Oct. 27th at Inwood Hill Park has been confirmed in eBird. Also quite late, a Mourning Warbler was confirmed in eBird from a photograph taken at the same (latter) park on Oct. 22. The last Yellow Warblers (so far confirmed) in eBird for any part of N.Y. County came on Oct. 22nd of this year; that species has however been found even into December in N.Y. City over the years, including photographed individuals. good end-of-October birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/ --