Central Park NYC Sunday, September 26, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Merlin, Brown Creeper, Willow Flycatcher, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Savannah Sparrow, Common Grackle flock, Twelve Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Blackpoll, Pine, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Canada Goose - 8 Gadwall - 2 southwest Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 9 Mourning Dove - 14-20 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 5-10 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Oven Herring Gull - 15-20 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Double-crested Cormorant - flyover flock of 11 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 flyovers Belvedere Castle Red-tailed Hawk - 2-3 locals (1 adult perched Maintenance Field, 2 flyover adults) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3-5 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (male Tupelo Field, another heard at Great Lawn) Northern Flicker - 6-12 Merlin - low flyover just east of Sparrow Rock Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4-7 Willow Flycatcher - 1 calling near top of hill up from Boathouse (David Barrett) Eastern Phoebe - 2 (1 Maintenance Field, 1 Top of the Point) Red-eyed Vireo - 5-10 Blue Jay - 5-10 American Crow - flock of 4-6 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 female Pinetum Brown Creeper - 1 Tupelo Field (Paul Curtis) House Wren - 1 Maintenance Field Carolina Wren - 2 Maintenance Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 male Shakespeare Garden Swainson's Thrush - 3-5 American Robin - 15-20 Gray Catbird - 5-10 Brown Thrasher - 1 Ramble (Bob - early) House Finch - 5-10 White-throated Sparrow - 4-5 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Sparrow Rock Song Sparrow - 1 Sparrow Rock Common Grackle - first big flock of the season (100+) flying north up Fifth Avenue (Bob - early) Black-and-white Warbler - 4-6 Common Yellowthroat - 6-8 American Redstart - 3-5 Cape May Warbler - 2 Shakespeare Garden Northern Parula - 15-20 Magnolia Warbler - 3-5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 uphill from Boathouse Cafe (Erica Rosengart) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond Dock Pine Warbler - 6-8 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female Maintenance Field Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 female Belvedere Castle Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 (2 Maintenance Field (Paul Curtis),1 Shakespeare Garden) Scarlet Tanager - 1 male Tupelo Field Northern Cardinal - 8-10 (one singing) Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 at the Oven Deb Allen
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