Central Park NYC Thursday October 8, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 8 Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May Warbler. Canada Goose - 14 Mallard - 6 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Herring Gull - 4 or 5 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (adult near Boathouse, immature near Tanner's Spring) Belted Kingfisher - 1 Turtle Pond (Bob - early) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 1 uphill from Boathouse Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Captain's Bench (Bob - early) Northern Flicker - 9-12 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Maintenance Field Eastern Phoebe - 7-9 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Pinetum, Shakespeare Garden) Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Weather Station (David Barrett) Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 4 or 5 flyovers Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-12 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Weather Station Carolina Wren - 2 Shakespeare Garden House Wren - 3 or 4 Gray Catbird - 25-30 Brown Thrasher - 1 Maintenance Field Northern Mockingbird - 1 Alexander Hamilton (west of Met Museum) Swainson's Thrush - 5 or 6 American Robin - 60-80 House Finch - 3 Sparrow Rock White-throated Sparrow - 40-50 Song Sparrow - 2 Maintenance Field Eastern Towhee - 10-15 Baltimore Oriole - 2 Maintenance Field Common Grackle - 4 or 5 Ovenbird - 4 or 5 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Pinetum Common Yellowthroat - 6-8 American Redstart - 3 Cape May Warbler - 1 Pinetum Northern Parula - 4 or 5 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (1 male, 3 females) Pine Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden Scarlet Tanager - 3 Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 heard near Boathouse -- 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/ --
