Central Park NYC Saturday October 5, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo Influx, 10 species of Wood Warblers including Cape May Warbler. Canada Goose - 12 Mallard - 4 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 8-10 Chimney Swift - 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Belvedere Castle Herring Gull - 4 or 5 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 second-year west side of the Lake (Kris MIrasola) Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover Maintenance Field Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 6-8 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 (King of Poland (Sandra Critelli), top of the Point) Eastern Phoebe - 1 Ramble Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 or 4 Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 2 flyovers Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - 5 or 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9 or 10 White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Brown Creeper - 1 near Boathouse (Alex from Halifax) Carolina Wren - 2 heard in Ramble Gray Catbird - 10-15 Swainson's Thrush - 7 or 8 American Robin - 25-30 Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (Vista Rock, SE Turtle Pond) White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Eastern Towhee - 8-10 Common Grackle - flyover flock of 5 Ovenbird - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Nashville Warbler - 1 top of the Point American Redstart - 3 or 4 Cape May Warbler - Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli) Northern Parula - 3 or 4 Yellow Warbler - 1 Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 uphill from Boathouse Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 or 4 Pine Warbler - 1 male south side Turtle Pond (Paul Curtis) Scarlet Tanager - 2 (Turtle Pond, Vista Rock) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- In addition: Karen Evans and Caren Jahre reported a Tennessee Warbler at the Maintenance Field, and a Golden-winged Warbler continued at the North End's Wildflower Meadow, among many other reports available @mbalerter maintained by David Barrett on "X." -- 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/ --
