Central Park NYC - North End Friday, September 29, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: 17 Species of Wood Warblers, including Tennessee, Cape May, Bay-breasted, and Nashville Warbler, 8 Species of Sparrows including Savannah and Lincoln's Sparrow. Also Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and Indigo Bunting. But, again there was no dawn flight observed this morning. Canada Goose - flyover 15 Mallard - Meer Gadwall - Meer Mourning Dove - Conservatory Garden & Green Bench Chimney Swift - 12 together overhead at 6:45am (Bob) Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Conservatory Garden Herring Gull - flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - pair perched at Lasker Rink 7am (Bob) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 7 Eastern Phoebe - 9 Blue-headed Vireo 4 Philadelphia Vireo - Green Bench (tweeted at 9:53am by @BirdCentralPark) Red-eyed Vireo - 6 Blue Jay American Crow - flyover flock of 9 House Wren - 7 Winter Wren - 2 (1 Fort Clinton 7am (Bob), 1 east side of Loch) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20 Swainson's Thrush - 10 American Robin - 80 (30 in crab apples at Lasker Pool/Rink, 50 in crab apples Conservatory Garden) Gray Catbird - 5 Northern Mockingbird - Green Bench Cedar Waxwing - flock of 12 and a couple of loners House Finch - Green Bench American Goldfinch - Loch Eastern Towhee - Grassy Knoll in wooded area behind fence Chipping Sparrow - NE Great Hill (David Barrett) Savannah Sparrow - north of Green Bench Song Sparrow - 10 Lincoln's Sparrow - Green Bench 730am (Bob) Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Wildflower Meadow, Grassy Knoll) White-throated Sparrow - 10 North Woods Dark-eyed Junco - "Slate-colored" Green Bench Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 hatch-year males molting into first basic plumage Conservatory Garden Ovenbird - North Woods (David from New Jersey) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 Tennessee Warbler - 7 (1 Wildflower Meadow, 1 e. side Great Hill, 5 at the Pool (tweet 11:29am @BirdCentralPark) Nashville Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 5 American Redstart - 6 Cape May Warbler - SW Pool Northern Parula - 10 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (NE Great Hill, between Pool & W. Blowdown) Chestnut-sided Warbler - SW Pool Blackpoll Warbler - Fort Clinton early morning (Bob) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (2 males) SW Pool & NE Great HIll Palm Warbler - 8 (hypochrysea 5, palmarun 3) Fort Clinton & Grassy Knoll) Pine Warbler - 3 Fort Clinton 7am (Bob) Yellow-rumped Warbler - Nutter's Battery early morning (Bob) Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 Scarlet Tanager - 3 (Green Bench, NE Pool, crab apples at Lasker Pool/Rink) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (2 males Children's Glade, 1 probably female Conservatory Garden) Indigo Bunting - SE Blowdown (David Barrett - tweeted at 12:25pm @FastMiler) 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/ --
