Central Park NYC Sunday, October 20, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Merlin, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Fox Sparrow, Black-throated Blue and other Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - 5 flyovers Northern Shoveler - 9 Mallard - 21 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 2 flyovers (Elle Auklet) Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1 flyover, 1 perched near Boathouse) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 12-15 Downy Woodpecker - 1 male south side Turtle Pond Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Merlin - 1 or 2 (perched Belvedere Castle (Paul Curtis), flyover Great Lawn) Eastern Phoebe - 1 Captain's Bench Blue-headed Vireo - 4 or 5 Blue Jay - 8-10 American Crow - heard Black-capped Chickadee - 3 Tufted Titmouse - 15-20 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20-25 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - 8-10 Brown Creeper - 1 Belvedere Castle Winter Wren - 3 or 4 Gray Catbird - 3 Hermit Thrush - 18-21 American Robin - 25-35 House Finch - 1 Shakespeare Garden Fox Sparrow - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Sandra Critelli) Dark-eyed Junco - 4 or 5 White-throated Sparrow - 50-60 Song Sparrow - 5 or 6 Swamp Sparrow - 1 south side of Turtle Pond Eastern Towhee - 5 or 6 Common Grackle - around 30 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 Palm Warbler - 3 "Yellow" Pine Warbler - 1 Pinetum Yellow-rumped Warbler - 25-30 Northern Cardinal - 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/ --
