Date: 10/10/25 3:47 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. Oct. 10, 2025:
Central Park NYC - North End
Friday, October 10, 2025
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Great Blue Heron, Green-winged Teal, Laughing Gull, Baltimore Oriole, increase in numbers for waterfowl, Eastern Phoebe, and Yellow-rumped Warbler. A report of Bonaparte's Gull with Ring-billed Gulls at the Reservoir could not be verified.
Canada Goose - 25
Wood Duck - 2 (male and female) Harlem Meer
Northern Shoveler - 69
Gadwall - 12
Mallard - around 60
Green-winged Teal - 7
Ruddy Duck - 2 Reservoir (Deb-after lunch)
Pied-billed Grebe - 1 continues north Reservoir (Deb-after lunch)
Mourning Dove - 18-20
Laughing Gull - 4
Ring-billed Gull - many at the Reservoir
American Herring Gull - a few flyovers, 300+ at the Reservoir
Great Black-backed Gull - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Harlem Meer
Great Blue Heron - 1 immature Harlem Meer
Red-tailed Hawk - 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 or 7
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (male and female) Great Hill
Northern Flicker - 1 north of the Pool
Eastern Phoebe - 11-13
Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Loch and Pool (Caren Jahre)
Blue Jay - 6
American Crow - 7-9
Tufted Titmouse - 1 Grassy Knoll
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8-10
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5
Carolina Wren - 1 Conservatory Garden
Northern House Wren - 1 Wildflower Meadow
Gray Catbird - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 2 Plant Nursery
Hermit Thrush - 2 north of the Pool (Dan Stevenson and Paul Curtis)
American Robin - 20-25
House Finch - 2 Conservatory Garden
American Goldfinch - 5
Chipping Sparrow - 2 Grassy Knoll
Dark-eyed Junco - 13-15
White-throated Sparrow - 30-35
Song Sparrow - 12-15
Swamp Sparrow - 2 Harlem Meer and Wildflower Meadow
Eastern Towhee - heard at Wildflower Meadow
Baltimore Oriole - 2 Harlem Meer (Brad Miles)
Brown-headed Cowbird - flock of 60-70
Common Grackle - 2 or 3
Northern Waterthrush - 1 west end of the Pool (Mary Kate Horbac)
Common Yellowthroat - 1 Harlem Meer (Caren Jahre)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Great Hill
Palm Warbler - 3 (Caren Jahre and Paul Curtis)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 14 or 15
Northern Cardinal - 3
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Deb Allen
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