Central Park NYC Thursday October 6, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Belted Kingfisher, 17 Species of Wood Warblers. Mallard - 5 Mourning Dove - 8-10 Chimney Swift - 20-25 Herring Gull - 3-4 flyovers Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 1 perched Strawberry Fields Belted Kingfisher - 1 Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3-4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Northern Flicker - 6-9 American Kestrel - 1 male flyover Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Turtle Pond Dock, Strawberry Fields) Blue-headed Vireo - 6 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Blue Jay - small southbound flocks (before 8am - Bob), 8-10 later Tufted Titmouse - 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-12 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4-5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8-10 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4-5 House Wren - 3 Carolina Wren - 1 Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 40-50 Brown Thrasher - 5-7 Swainson's Thrush - 15-20 Hermit Thrush - 3-4 Wood Thrush - 1 Iphigene's Walk American Robin - 25-30 House Finch - 2 Pinetum American Goldfinch - 3 Chipping Sparrow - 4-6 Sparrow Rock Dark-eyed Junco - 3-4 White-throated Sparrow - 50-60 Song Sparrow - 10-15 Swamp Sparrow - 5-10 Eastern Towhee - around 6 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 3 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Wagner's Cove Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Tennessee Warbler - 2 (1 Warbler Rock, 1 east of Azalea Pond) Nashville Warbler - 1 Warbler Rock Connecticut Warbler - 1 Strawberry Fields* Common Yellowthroat - 6-8 American Redstart - 4-6 Cape Way Warbler - 2 (Pinetum, Willow Rock) Northern Parula - 5-7 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Upper Lobe Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond Dock (Bob - early) Blackpoll Warbler - 2 Turtle Pond Dock (Bob - early) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6-8 Palm Warbler - 3-4 "Yellow" (Great Lawn & Pinetum) Pine Warbler - 2 Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4-5 Pinetum Northern Cardinal - 4-6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 east side of Ramble -- *The Connecticut Warbler was seen in Strawberry Fields this morning. Here's a photo from the finder Scott Dunn @The_SDunn on twitter: https://twitter.com/The_SDunn/status/1578020765026619392/photo/1 No sign today of Wednesday's young Sora at Turtle Pond, found by Charlotte Khoo @koolshark2 who posted these photos on twitter: https://twitter.com/koolshark2/status/1577854815891226629 Thanks @BirdCentralPark for up-to-the-minute NY County bird reports. -- 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/[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/ --
