Central Park NYC Sunday October 6, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 8 Species of Wood Warblers including Hooded and Canada Warblers. Canada Goose - 2 flyovers Wood Duck - 1 female Conservatory Water Mallard - 24 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 or 2 Tupelo Field Herring Gull - 4 or 5 flyovers Green Heron - 1 Azalea Pond (Caren Jahre) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 adult perched uphill from Boathouse Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 10-15 Eastern Phoebe - 4 or 5 Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 4-6 Common Raven - 1 heard-only Tufted Titmouse - 5 or 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8-10 Cedar Waxwing - 2 flyover flocks for a total of around 25 birds Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 King of Poland (Caren Jahre) White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Evodia Field, Captain's Bench) Brown Creeper - 1 south side Turtle Pond House Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Winter Wren - 6-8 Gray Catbird - 7 or 8 Swainson's Thrush - 4 or 5 Hermit Thrush - 12-15 Wood Thrush - 2 (Summer House, Swampy Pin Oak) American Robin - 30-40 House Finch - 1 female Belvedere Castle Dark-eyed Junco - 2 or 3 White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Song Sparrow - 2 (Castle (Peter Haskel), Ramble) Eastern Towhee - 4 or 5 Common Grackle - 1 Weather Station Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Ramble Hooded Warbler - 1 Male (Oven and Summer House) Northern Parula - 9 or 10 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Oven Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 or 5 Pine Warbler - 1 east of Belvedere Castle (Paul Curtis) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20-25 Canada Warbler - 1 Belvedere Castle (late, but not a record date for the location) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- 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/ --