Central Park, NYC Saturday, October 21, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Red-breasted Nuthatch, Swainson's Thrush & 5 Species of Wood Warblers. No dawn flight this morning, but the birds were active early (6:45am) with Blue Jays calling at 6:40am. Mallard - 20 Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Pinetum (Will Papp) and Ramble Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 15 Northern Flicker 2 (Locust Grove & Maintenance Field) Eastern Phoebe - 2 Upper Lobe Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 10 Tufted Titmouse - 3 (1 east of Azalea Pond, 2 Shakespeare Garden) Red-breasted Nuthatch - Pinetum White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (1 Evodia Field feeders, 2 Ramble) Brown Creeper - Maintenance Field House Wren - west side Great Lawn Winter Wren - 2 (Gill Source & Maintenance Field) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6 (4 Shakespeare Garden, 1 Pinetum, 1 Maintenance Field) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 20 Swainson's Thrush - Locust Grove near Delacorte Theater Hermit Thrush - 10 American Robin - fewer today Gray Catbird - 2 Locust Grove House Finch - 5 Maintenance Field Eastern Towhee - 3 males (1 Locust Grove, 2 Ramble) Chipping Sparrow - 25 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum) Song Sparrow - 10 Swamp Sparrow - Maintenance Field (Bob - early) White-throated Sparrow - 75 Dark-eyed Junco - 20 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum) Common Grackle - 30 flyovers Black-and-white Warbler - (Marianne Sutton) Ramble east of Azalea Pond Palm Warbler - 5 Pinetum - both "western" and "yellow" (Will Papp) Pine Warbler - 3 King of Poland Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 Black-throated Green Warbler - Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - residents Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC and @DAllenNYC Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
