Central Park NYC
Saturday September 12, 2020
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Blue-winged & Pine Warblers,
Black-billed Cuckoo, Green-winged Teal, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Some
evidence of diurnal raptor migration with Bald Eagle and Osprey overhead.
Canada Goose - 8 Turtle Pond
Northern Shoveler - female Turtle Pond
Mallard 15 - Turtle Pond & the Lake
Green-winged Teal - female Turtle Pond (reported earlier by Stephen Dunn)
Mourning Dove - 6
Black-billed Cuckoo - Upper Lobe
Chimney Swift - 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 (Tupelo Field & Shakespeare Garden)
Herring Gull - flyover
Double-crested Cormorant - flyover
Green Heron - flyover
Osprey - flyover
Bald Eagle - flyover
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Northern Flicker - 5
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 or 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 (Top of the Point, King of Poland)
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - east of Azalea Pond
Warbling Vireo - Oven
Red-eyed Vireo - 12-15
Blue Jay - 5
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 7
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Tupelo Field, Maintenance Field)
House Wren - 2 Belvedere Castle
Carolina Wren - 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - uphill from Boathouse Cafe
Veery - 7
Swainson's Thrush - 2 Warbler Rock
Wood Thrush - 1 Warbler Rock
American Robin - 10
Gray Catbird - 5
Cedar Waxwing - 3 flyover flocks
Purple Finch - heard at Maintenance Field (David Barrett)
White-throated Sparrow - Chez Armando
Baltimore Oriole - Gill Overlook (Sandra Critelli)
Common Grackle - 45
Northern Watertrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden
Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Maintenance Field, Shakespeare Garden)
Black-and-white Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 10-12
American Redstart - a dozen including 2 adult males
Northern Parula - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 4
Yellow Warbler - 3
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Pine Warbler - 2 (Oven, South side Turtle Pond) our FOS, but reported Friday
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle & path east of Castle)
Canada Warbler - east of Azalea Pond
Scarlet Tanager - 2 Shakespeare Garden
Northern Cardinal - 2 or 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - hatch-year male Boathouse Cafe
Deb Allen
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