Central Park NYC
Saturday October 31, 2020
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Common Loon, Red-shouldered Hawk, Merlin, Fox Sparrow, 4 Species of
Wood Warblers, Eastern Bluebird.
Canada Goose - around 150 including skeins of migrants overhead
Northern Shoveler - 60
Gadwall - 7
Mallard - 36
Bufflehead - 15
Hooded Merganser - 2 Turtle Pond
Ruddy Duck - around 50
Mourning Dove - 5
American Coot - 1 North End Reservoir (Deb)
Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - around 70 including 20 flyover Herring Gulls
Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir
Common Loon - 1 north end of Reservoir (Deb)
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir
Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-tailed Hawk - 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 or 2 Pinetum
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Ramble & Pinetum)
Northern Flicker - 3
Merlin - flyover
Blue-headed Vireo - 3 or 4
Blue Jay - 10
American Crow - flyover flock of 8
Black-capped Chickadee - 8 to 10
Tufted Titmouse - 45-50
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3
White-breasted Nuthatch - 12-14
Brown Creeper - 2 (Great Lawn, uphill from Boathouse)
House Wren - 1 Turtle Pond
Carolina Wren - 1 uphill from Boathouse
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 25
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8-12
Eastern Bluebird - Great Lawn (Sandra Critelli)
Hermit Thrush - a dozen
American Robin - around 50
Cedar Waxwing - 16 (2 flocks)
House Finch - 3
Purple Finch - 2 Shakespeare Garden
Pine Siskin - 19-20
American Goldfinch - 5
Eastern Towhee - 1 female south side Turtle Pond
Chipping Sparrow - 5 or 6
Fox Sparrow - south side Turtle Pond near Castle
Song Sparrow - 10
White-throated Sparrow - 60
Dark-eyed Junco - 15
Red-winged Blackbird - singing north end Reservoir (Deb)
Common Grackle - around 250
Northern Parula - upholl from Boathouse
Black-throated Blue Warbler - male - uphill from Boathouse
Palm Warbler - "Yellow" 2 (Great Lawn, Cedar Hill)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond
Northern Cardinal - 5
Deb Allen
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Park today and two reports of Evening Grosbeaks, see the Manhattan Bird Alert
@BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett.
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