Central Park NYC Monday Oct. 10, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Strawberry Fields at 9am & some pre-walk birding there from 8-9.
Highlights: 16 species of Wood Warblers including Blackburnian, Cape May, Chestnut-sided, and Nashville. Some early morning flight today of southbound migrants: skeins of Canada Geese and Double-crested Cormorants, and small flocks of 10 to 20 Blue Jays. Also occurring this morning reorientation flights by Northern Flickers, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, warblers, and other small passerines, e.g. 25-50 Northern Flickers flying north this morning.The smaller birds were restless and many would only stay for a few seconds after we called them in, making them difficult to identify or photograph. Canada Goose - southbound skeins high overhead Mallard Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 2 at Turtle Pond - loose "v" of at least 50 birds flying south Turkey Vulture - 2 overhead seen from south Pinetum/NW Great Lawn Osprey - over Strawberry Fields Bald Eagle - 4 over Sparrow Rock (2 hatch-year birds, 2 with white heads & tails) seen with Ryan Zucker & Isaiah Wender Sharp-shinned Hawk - over Sparrow Rock Cooper's Hawk - over south Pinetum/NW Great Lawn Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 50+ many locations Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 25-50 American Kestrel - Strawberry Fields Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 3 (Strawberry Fields, Shakespeare Garden, Pinetum) Red-eyed Vireo - 2 (Pinetum & Warbler Rock) Blue Jay - small flocks heading south Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch - 12-15 White-breasted Nuthatch - 10 House Wren - 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3-5 (Warbler Rock - Tom Ahlf, Pinetum, Strawberry Fields) Swainson's Thrush - near Belvedere Castle Hermit Thrush - several American Robin - large flock in crab apple Shakespeare Garden, etc. Gray Catbird - many locations Brown Thrasher 2 (Strawberry Fields & Ramble) Ovenbird - 2 (Upper Lobe, Tupelo Field/Mugger's Woods) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 (Strawberry Fields, Oven, etc.) Nashville Warbler - Strawberry Fields Common Yellowthroat - 2 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum) American Redstart - 5-7 Cape May Warbler - at least 2 in the Pinetum Northern Parula - 10 Magnolia Warbler - Oven Blackburnian Warbler - adult female Strawberry Fields Chestnut-sided Warbler - Upper Lobe just south of Oak Bridge Blackpoll Warbler - 7 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (2 males & 2 females) Palm Warbler - 3 (Pinetum, Strawberry Fields, rock outcrop west of Pinetum) Pine Warbler - 5 (Strawberry Fields, Pinetum, Shakespeare Garden) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10-15, probably more Black-throated Green Warbler - in pine NW Great Lawn Northern Cardinal - residents Eastern Towhee - 5 Chipping Sparrow - at least 10 Song Sparrow - big uptick in numbers Swamp Sparrow - several in Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - several Red-winged Blackbird - flyovers Common Grackle - a few Claude Bloch reported a Lincoln's Sparrow in Strawberry Fields. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
