Central Park NYC Friday September 20, 2024 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Green-winged Teal, Hooded Merganser, Common Nighthawk, 9 Species of Wood Warblers.
Canada Goose - around 30 Wood Duck - 1 female continues at the Pool Mallard - around 60 Green-winged Teal - 1 female Harlem Meer (Deb - early) Hooded Merganser - 1 female continues at the Pool Mourning Dove - around 20 Common Nighthawk - 2 (1 continuing perched south of Turtle Pond, 1 flyover) Chimney Swift - 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 in Jewelweed at the Oven (Deb - after lunch) Herring Gull - around 20 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 or 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 at Reservoir (Deb - after lunch) Great Blue Heron - 1 immature Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 3 or 4 (one perched) Belted Kingfisher - 1 heard only at the Oven (Deb - after lunch) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 Eastern Phoebe - 6 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Harlem Meer (Scott Brevda) Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Harlem Meer Blue Jay - 8-10 American Crow - 3, others heard Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Paul Curtis - Nutter's Battery, the Pool) House Wren - 1 Wildflower Meadow Carolina Wren - 1 heard along the Loch Gray Catbird - 6-8 Brown Thrasher - 1 Great Hill (Paul Curtis) Northern Mockingbird - 2 (Conservatory Garden, Green Bench) Swainson's Thrush - 1 south side Turtle Pond (Deb - after lunch) American Robin - around 50 House Finch - 3 Dark-eyed Junco - 2 or 3 (Block House, Great Hill) White-throated Sparrow - 3 or 4 Common Grackle - 7 Northern Waterthrush - 1 or 2 at the Pool (Dan Stevenson and Scott Brevda) Black-and-white Warbler - 6 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Harlem Meer American Redstart - 5 Northern Parula - 5 Magnolia Warbler - 3 (Nutter's Battery, Compost (Caren Jahre), the Pool) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 Palm Warbler - 12-15 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Nutter's Battery Northern Cardinal - 3 or 4 -- 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/ --