Central Park NYC - Ramble and Turtle Pond Sunday September 1, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: An overcast day with high humidity yielded the expected early September uptick in Ruby-throated Hummingbird numbers, an American Kestrel, some Empidonax flycatchers, and ten Species of Wood Warblers including Blue-winged Warbler. Canada Goose - 20 Mourning Dove - 25-30 Chimney Swift - 4-6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5 Herring Gull - 3-5 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 Lake Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Ramble Northern Flicker - 2 (Evodia Field, Belvedere Castle) American Kestrel - 1 flyover Captain's Bench (Mark Siegeltuch, Paul Curtis) Great Crested Flycatcher - 4 or 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 west side of the Point Empidonax Flycatcher - 2 or 3 Warbling Vireo - 1 singing Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 6-8 Carolina Wren - 2 or 3 heard House Wren - 1 Bow Bridge Gray Catbird - Gray Catbird - 5-7 Veery - 5 Wood Thrush - 3 American Robin - 10-15 Common Grackle - 4 or 5 Ovenbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Northern Waterthrush - 1 Gill Source Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Captain's Bench Black-and-white Warbler - 3 or 4 Common Yellowthroat - 2 or 3 American Redstart - 15-20 Northern Parula - 3 or 4 Magnolia Warbler - 3 or 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 or 5 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Evodia Field Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Deb Allen -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
