Central Park NYC Saturday September 21, 2024 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Turkey Vulture, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 14 Species of Wood Warblers including Bay-breasted and Nashville Warblers. Canada Goose - heard Mallard - 33 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Upper Lobe (Kris Mirasola) Chimney Swift - 5-10 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Herring Gull - 5 or 6 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flyover Upper Lobe Turkey Vulture - 1 flyover Shakespeare Garden Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover Ramble Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover Shakespeare Garden Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 or 4 (Paul Curtis) first-of-season Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Maintenance Field Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, uphill from Boathouse Cafe) Red-eyed Vireo - 6-8 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 American Crow - 2 flyovers Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Cedar Waxwing - 1 hatch-year King of Poland Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden Brown Creeper - 2 (Upper Lobe, Belvedere Castle) Carolina Wren - 3 Gray Catbird - 8-10 Brown Thrasher - 6 or 7 Swainson's Thrush - 20-25 American Robin - 25-30 House Finch - 4 or 5 White-throated Sparrow - 4 or 5 Baltimore Oriole - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans, Dan Stevenson, Peter Haskel) Common Grackle - 2 south side of Turtle Pond Ovenbird - 2 Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 1 east side of the Lake Black-and-white Warbler - 9-12 Nashville Warbler - 1 Castle-Vista Rock Common Yellowthroat - 3 or 4 American Redstart - 8-10 Northern Parula - 12-16 Magnolia Warbler - 3 or 4 Bay-breasted Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 1 adult female Shakespeare Garden (Kris Mirasola) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Ramble (Karen Evans, Dan Stevenson, Peter Haskel) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (2 females, 1 male) Pine Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond (Paul Curtis) Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond Scarlet Tanager - 1 male Maintenance Field (Annie Plum) Northern Cardinal - 9-12 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 4 or 5 -- 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/ --
