Central Park NYC Saturday September 11, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo (3), Broad-winged Hawk, Olive-sided Flycatcher, 14 Species of Wood Warblers, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, notable increase in Swainson's Thrush numbers. Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 25-30 Mourning Dove - 15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3-5 Herring Gull - 2-3 flyovers Osprey - 3 flyover Cooper's Hawk - adult carrying prey at Azalea Pond Broad-winged Hawk - 2 adults over Tupelo Field Red-tailed Hawk - 1 adult flyover Belted Kingfisher - heard Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 3 American Kestrel - flyover Great Crested Flycatcher - 3-5 Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 just east of Azalea Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 20-25 Blue Jay - 2-3 Common Raven - 1 circling with Red-tailed Hawk over Stone Arch (Ryan Serio) Carolina Wren - 1 singing Maintenance Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Belvedere Castle & south side of Turtle Pond) Swainson's Thrush - 50-60 in flocks Wood Thrush - 1 Tupelo field Gray Catbird - 5-10 Northern Mockingbird - Tanner's Spring Cedar Waxwing - 6 flocks of 7-15 birds each White-throated Sparrow - 1 Upper Lobe Baltimore Oriole - 5-10 Common Grackle - 5-7 Ovenbird - 2 (Ramble & Reservoir) Black-and-white Warbler - 7-12 Common Yellowthroat - 7 American Redstart - 15-20 Cape May Warbler - east of Belvedere Castle Northern Parula - 10-15 Magnolia Warbler - 5-7 Bay-breasted Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 2-3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Shakespeare Garden (Sandra Critelli) Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 Canada Warbler - 1 adult male Tupelo Field Scarlet Tanager - 1 Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 7-12 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4-7 -- Rachel Bea photographed a Blue-winged Warbler at the Maintenance Field. Roger Pasquier reported a Red-breasted Nuthatch near the Delacorte Theater. -- A day that stands so for night* Deb Allen *Cesar Vallejo, translation by Robert Bly in Neruda and Vallejo Selected Poems -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
