[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sat. Oct. 19, 2019: Six Species of Wood Warblers, Red-eyed Vireo, Empidonax Flycatcher

Central Park NYC

Saturday October 19, 2019

OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.

Highlights: Six Species of Wood Warblers, Common Raven, Empidonax Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Scarlet Tanager.

Canada Goose - 26

Wood Duck - female Balcony Bridge (Deb)

Northern Shoveler - 12

Gadwall - male Reservoir

Mallard - 24

Ruddy Duck - 20 Reservoir

Mourning Dove - 4

Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - 40+ Reservoir & flyover Herring Gulls

Great Black-backed Gull - 11 Reservoir

Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond and flyover flock of 35 heading south

Cooper's Hawk - 1 or 2 (Persimmon Slope & fly-by seen from Castle)

Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Sparrow Rock

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8-10

Downy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker - 3 (2 Warbler Rock, 1 Pinetum)

American Kestrel - male (2 locations)

Empidonax Flycatcher - Willow or Alder at Pinetum

Eastern Phoebe - Pinetum (Sandra Critelli)

Blue-headed Vireo - 3 (2 Tupelo Field, 1 uphill from Boathouse)

Red-eyed Vireo - 3 (Maintenance Field, Tupelo Field, Pinetum)

Blue Jay - 10-20

Crow Species - silent flyover Sparrow Rock

Common Raven - heard Summer House

White-breasted Nuthatch - south side Turtle Pond (Sandra Critelli)

House Wren - 2 (King of Poland, Maintenance Field)

Winter Wren - 3

Carolina Wren - 3 pairs (Gill Overlook, Maintenance Field, Shakespeare Garden)

Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10-15

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20

Hermit Thrush - 25-30

American Robin - 30+

Gray Catbird - 5-10

House Finch - 5

Chipping Sparrow - 10-15

Song Sparrow - 15-20

Swamp Sparrow - 2 Sparrow Rock (Deb)

White-throated Sparrow - 75-100

Eastern Towhee - 5-10

Common Grackle - 15-20

Black-and-white Warbler - 1 King of Poland

Northern Parula - 2 (uphill from Boathouse, Maintenance Field)

Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 (3 female, 2 male)

Palm Warbler - 4 "Yellow" (2 Tupelo Field, 2 Pinetum)

Pine Warbler - 3 (2 in pines west of Castle, 1 Pinetum)

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5

Scarlet Tanager - female in Catalpa west of Triplet's Bridge (Deb)

Northern Cardinal - 8-10

In addition, Peter Haskel reported a Blackpoll Warbler at Cedar Hill..

Deb Allen

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