Central Park NYC Sunday, October 13, 2024 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher, Warbling Vireo, Worm-eating Warbler and Eight other Wood Warbler Species. Canada Goose - 14 Northern Shoveler - 10 Mallard - 25 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 eating Spotted Lanternflies in Shakespeare Garden Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Herring Gull - 4 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 4 flyovers (Mark Siegeltuch) Great Blue Heron - 1 landing at Turtle Pond (Liza Meneades) Cooper's Hawk - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Belted Kingfisher - 1 Turtle Pond (Alison, Shannon and Noriko) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - 4 or 5 Warbling Vireo - 1 Belvedere Castle (late date for location) Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 8-10 American Crow - 2 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 1 south side Turtle Pond (Paul Curtis) Tufted Titmouse - 10-12 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20-25 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6-8 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Willow Rock) White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 or 4 Brown Creeper - 1 uphill from Boathouse Carolina Wren - 2 or 3 House Wren - 2 or 3 Winter Wren - 4 or 5 Gray Catbird - 8-10 Brown Thrasher - 1 Shakespeare Garden Northern Mockingbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush - 1 Captain's Bench Swainson's Thrush - 3 or 4 Hermit Thrush - 80-100 Wood Thrush - 1 Captain's Bench American Robin - 30-40 White-throated Sparrow - 60-80 Song Sparrow - 5-10 Eastern Towhee - 4 or 5 Common Grackle - 40-50 Ovenbird - 3 Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Summer House (Juan Govea) (late date for location) Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 2 (Upper Lobe (Andrea Hessel), Maintenance Field) Northern Parula - 1 Warbler Rock (Sandra Critelli) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7 or 8 Pine Warbler - 2 or 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 or 5 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Captain's Bench Scarlet Tanager - 2 (Belvedere Castle (LIza Meneades), Shakespeare Garden) Northern Cardinal - 6-8 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 Belvedere Castle (Annie Plum) -- Deb Allen -- P. S. Really great to see Benny Romero's Lark Sparrow at the Randall's Island Sunken Meadow area on Saturday in the company of David Barrett who maintains @BirdCentralPark and @mbalerter on X (Twitter). A big thank you to Benny @Benny33946306 for posting to let us know about the bird. -- (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/ --
