Central Park NYC Sunday October 7, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 10 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May Warblers, Ovenbird, and Northern Waterthrush. See end of list for VanCordtlandt Park Owl Note. Canada Goose - 4 Lake Northern Shoveler - 5 Turtle Pond Mallard - 16 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - Shakespeare Garden Chimney swift - largest flock of around 20 seen over Warbler Rock Herring Gull - flyovers Sharp-shinned Hawk - immature Pinetum (WBF release?) Cooper's Hawk - flyover Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - Azalea Pond & west side of Great Lawn Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - at least 5 Downy Woodpecker - male Shakespeare Garden Northern Flicker - Sparrow Rock & south of Maintenance Field Eastern Wood-Pewee - Persimmon Slope s. of Maint. Field Traill's Flycatcher - Persimmon Slope s. of Maint. Field (Ajit Deshmukh) Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Bow Bridge (Karen Evans), Persimmon Slope s. of Maint. Field) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 (2 Maint. Field (Gillian Henry), Tupelo Field) Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 9 Turtle Pond & a few others Tufted Titmouse - 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 7 (the first spotted at Maint. Field by Karen Evans) White-breasted Nuthatch - Pinetum, Maintenance Field, & Gill Overlook House Wren - Bow Bridge Island Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 Wood Thrush - south side of Tupelo Field American Robin - at least 20 Gray Catbird - 16 Brown Thrasher - 3, another heard only House Finch - 2 males NE Maintenance Field Purple Finch - male east of Azalea Pond Eastern Towhee - Azalea Pond & Sparrow Rock Chipping Sparrow - 2 Sparrow Rock (Sandra Critelli) Song Sparrow - 2 Sparrow Rock White-throated Sparrow - at least 20 White-crowned Sparrow - adult Sparrow Rock (Karen Evans) Dark-eyed Junco - 2 Sparrow Rock Common Grackle Ovenbird - Ramble (Bob & Gillian Henry) Northern Waterthrush - below Castle Black-and-white Warbler - male Gill Overlook Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 5 Cape May Warbler - 2 (adult & hatch-year) Pinetum in Siberian Elm Northern Parula - Gill Overlook & Maintenance Field Magnolia Warbler - 3 Blackpoll Warbler - Cucumber Magnolia s. of Maintenance Field Pine Warbler - Pinetum Northern Cardinal - several juveniles around -- Sunday evening in Van Cortlandt Park, we got good looks at a Red Morph Eastern Screech-Owl in one location and heard two others (opposite sides of the path) in another. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
