Central Park NYC Sunday, October 27, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Purple Finch, 6 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Black-and-white, and Magnolia Warblers. Wood Duck - 1 male Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - 18 Mallard - 49 Mourning Dove - 30-40 Herring Gull - 30-40 flyovers Great Blue Heron - 1 Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15 Downy Woodpecker - 1 male Locust Grove Northern Flicker - 2 or 3 Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Alazea Pond, Pinetum) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Boathouse Hill, Turtle Pond) Blue Jay - 15-20 American Crow - 3-5 Black-capped Chickadee - 6 or 7 Tufted Titmouse - 18-20 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5-7 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Pinetum (Caren Jahre - early) White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 or 7 Brown Creeper - 3 or 4 Carolina Wren - heard-only Ramble Winter Wren - 2 or 3 Gray Catbird - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, the Oven) Northern Mockingbird - 1 Sparrow Rock Hermit Thrush - 25-30 American Robin - 20-26 House Finch - 1 Sparrow Rock Purple Finch - 3 American Goldfinch - 1 Shakespeare Garden Dark-eyed Junco - 4 or 5 White-throated Sparrow - 25-35 Song Sparrow - 5 or 6 Eastern Towhee - 1 male Evodia Field Common Grackle - 20-30 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Warbler Rock (Paul Curtis) - late in the season Black-and-white Warbler - 1 near W. 79th Street (Gabriel Willow group, Sandra Critelli - early) - late in season Magnolia Warbler - 1 continuing at Warbler Rock (Annie Plum) - late in the season Palm Warbler - "Yellow" 4 or 5 Pine Warbler - 1 Belvedere Castle Overlook Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 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/ --