Central Park NYC Saturday October 3, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Henslow's Sparrow, Yellow-breasted Chat, 15 Species of Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - more than 30 Gadwall - 2 flyovers Turtle Pond Mallard - 25 Mourning Dove - 12 Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Osprey - 2 flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 1 or 2 flyovers Broad-winged Hawk - 1 flyover adult Belvedere Castle Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - a dozen Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10 Downy Woodpecker - female King of Poland Northern Flicker - around a dozen Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 25 southbound migrants American Crow - several heard Tufted Titmouse - 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 15 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 House Wren - 4 Winter Wren - 1 Oven Carolina Wren - 3 heard Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 Swainson's Thrush - 5 Hermit Thrush - 1 in Amur Corktree east side of Azalea Pond American Robin - 15 Gray Catbird - 10-15 Brown Thrasher - heard Belvedere Castle Cedar Waxwing - flock of 15 Belvedere Castle House Finch - 5 or 6 American Goldfinch - 3 Sparrow Rock Eastern Towhee - 4 Henslow's Sparrow - Sparrow Rock (found by Janet Wooten)* Song Sparrow - 6 Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 (Maintenance Field (Deb) & Sparrow Rock) Swamp Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 15-20 Yellow-breasted Chat - Sparrow Rock Common Grackle - 15 flyovers Ovenbird - 2 Evodia Field (Bob & Deb - early) Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Castle & Maintenance Field) Tennessee Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell) Common Yellowthroat - 3 Cape May Warbler - 4 all in Siberian Elms (2 near Boathouse, 2 Pinetum) Northern Parula - 12 Magnolia Warbler - 6 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 Sparrow Rock Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Belvedere Castle Overlook Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female Ramble Palm Warbler - 1 Sparrow Rock Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 Canada Warbler - 1 female Belvedere Castle Overlook Wilson's Warbler - 1 male Triplet's Bridge Scarlet Tanager - 1 male top of the Point Northern Cardinal - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 heard in Ramble -- *3rd Central Park Record of Henslow's Sparrow. The two previous records were both in October, one in 2006, the first in 1992. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
