Central Park NYC Sunday September 22, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: A nice variety of birds, but not big numbers - American Kestrel, Winter Wren (FOS), 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Bay-breasted Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Canada Goose - 6 Mallard - 7 Mourning Dove - 50-60 Chimney Swift - around 20 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Herring Gull - 6-8 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 immature Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 American Kestrel - 1 male perched at Cedar Hill (Bob and Deb after walk) Peregrine Falcon - 2 at 135th St. RR Bridge Manhattan-Bronx (Bob and Deb after walk) Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 or 3 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Warbler Rock (Paul Curtis) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 or 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 8-10 Blue Jay - 6-8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 or 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 or 2 Belvedere Castle Brown Creeper - 1 at the Point Carolina Wren - heard House Wren - 1 top of the Point Winter Wren - 1 Azalea Pond (Caren Jahre) First-of-season Gray Catbird - 6-8 Brown Thrasher - 2 or 3 Swainson's Thrush - 15-20 Wood Thrush - 2 or 3 (Lisa Capella) American Robin - 25-30 House Finch - 4 or 5 White-throated Sparrow - 3 or 4 Baltimore Oriole - 1 hatch-year male Shakespeare Garden (Sandra Critelli) Common Grackle - 3 or 4 Ovenbird - 2 Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 1 Oven Black-and-white Warbler - 5 or 6 Common Yellowthroat - 3 or 4 American Redstart - 12-15 Northern Parula - 10-12 Magnolia Warbler - 3 or 4 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, the Point) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Captain's Bench Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (1 male, 3 females) Pine Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, south side Turtle Pond) Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond Scarlet Tanager - 3 Northern Cardinal - 8-10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5 or 6 -- 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/ --
