Central Park NYC - North End Friday, October 9, 2026 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a sunny, mild autumn morning: American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Merlin, Yellow-throated Vireo, Nashville, Cape May and Other Warblers. Several each of veteran and new birders today, plus visitors from Berlin and Mexico City. In the Ramble, the American Bittern continued in the same shrub as on Thursday. Canada Goose - 18-30 (2 locations) Northern Shoveler - 14 Gadwall - 17 American Wigeon - 1 at the Pool Mallard - around 60 Green-winged Teal - 3 Mourning Dove - 6 Chimney Swift - 4 American Herring Gull - 3 or 4 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 immature Harlem Meer Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover (Joaquin) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (2 perched immatures (Caren Jahre), 1 flyover adult (Joaquin)) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4-6 Northern Flicker - 2 (Loch, Green Bench) Merlin - 1 female/immature perched Harlem Meer (thanks to Fred Cohen) Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 probable Least Flycatcher Harlem Meer (Paul Curtis) Eastern Phoebe - 8 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Lily Ponds Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Grassy Knoll Blue Jay - 6 American Crow - heard Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 18-25 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 Grassy Knoll Cedar Waxwing - 3 Green Bench (Claire Buyens and Dan Stevenson) Brown Creeper - 2 Loch (Paul Curtis, Claire Buyens) Winter Wren - 1 Loch (Claire Buyens) Gray Catbird - 5 Northern Mockingbird - heard Wood Thrush - 1 Loch (Caren Jahre) American Robin - 10-15 American Goldfinch -around 15 Chipping Sparrow - 5 Field Sparrow - 3 (Rowena Dodds) Dark-eyed Junco - 3 White-throated Sparrow - around 15 Song Sparrow - 13-15 Swamp Sparrow - 3 or 4 Eastern Towhee - 1 heard Harlem Meer (Caren Jahre) Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 Harlem Meer Common Grackle - 2 flyovers Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Harlem Meer (Amanda Vavilala and Dasha), Wildflower Meadow) Nashville Warbler - 1 North Woods (Dan Stevenson) Common Yellowthroat - 5 American Redstart - 2 (Loch (Dan Stevenson), Lily Ponds) Cape May Warbler - 2 Great Hill (Claire Buyens) Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 3 (Meer, Loch (Caren Jahre), Pool) Pine Warbler - 1 Great Hill (Paul Curtis) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Grassy Knoll (Amanda Vavilala) Scarlet Tanager - 2 Green Bench (seen earlier by Rubon Giron) Northern Cardinal - 5 including a juvenile begging from an adult female Indigo Bunting - 2 (Harlem Meer, Nutter's Battery) (Benny Romero reported others). -- A service for Lee Rogers is scheduled for 2pm this Saturday at the Rustic Shelter (Summer House) in the Ramble with Rev. Bartlett from Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church presiding. At 2:30 birders will meet at the Evodia Field (near the bird feeders) for an informal memorial. -- Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: More information about this list here: http://www.northeastbirding.com Login to change your subscription settings here: http://LISTS.cornell.edu Posting Address: [email protected] Archives: The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Sightings: Please submit your observations to eBird at http://www.ebird.org --
