Date: 10/9/26 3:28 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri., Oct. 9, 2026: Merlin, Yellow-throated Vireo, Nashville, Cape May and Other Warblers
Central Park NYC - North End
Friday, October 9, 2026
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a sunny, mild autumn morning: American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Merlin, Yellow-throated Vireo, Nashville, Cape May and Other Warblers. Several each of veteran and new birders today, plus visitors from Berlin and Mexico City.
In the Ramble, the American Bittern continued in the same shrub as on Thursday.
Canada Goose - 18-30 (2 locations)
Northern Shoveler - 14
Gadwall - 17
American Wigeon - 1 at the Pool
Mallard - around 60
Green-winged Teal - 3
Mourning Dove - 6
Chimney Swift - 4
American Herring Gull - 3 or 4 flyovers
Great Blue Heron - 1 immature Harlem Meer
Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover (Joaquin)
Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (2 perched immatures (Caren Jahre), 1 flyover adult (Joaquin))
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4-6
Northern Flicker - 2 (Loch, Green Bench)
Merlin - 1 female/immature perched Harlem Meer (thanks to Fred Cohen)
Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 probable Least Flycatcher Harlem Meer (Paul Curtis)
Eastern Phoebe - 8
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Lily Ponds
Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Grassy Knoll
Blue Jay - 6
American Crow - heard
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 18-25
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 Grassy Knoll
Cedar Waxwing - 3 Green Bench (Claire Buyens and Dan Stevenson)
Brown Creeper - 2 Loch (Paul Curtis, Claire Buyens)
Winter Wren - 1 Loch (Claire Buyens)
Gray Catbird - 5
Northern Mockingbird - heard
Wood Thrush - 1 Loch (Caren Jahre)
American Robin - 10-15
American Goldfinch -around 15
Chipping Sparrow - 5
Field Sparrow - 3 (Rowena Dodds)
Dark-eyed Junco - 3
White-throated Sparrow - around 15
Song Sparrow - 13-15
Swamp Sparrow - 3 or 4
Eastern Towhee - 1 heard Harlem Meer (Caren Jahre)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 Harlem Meer
Common Grackle - 2 flyovers
Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Harlem Meer (Amanda Vavilala and Dasha), Wildflower Meadow)
Nashville Warbler - 1 North Woods (Dan Stevenson)
Common Yellowthroat - 5
American Redstart - 2 (Loch (Dan Stevenson), Lily Ponds)
Cape May Warbler - 2 Great Hill (Claire Buyens)
Northern Parula - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 3 (Meer, Loch (Caren Jahre), Pool)
Pine Warbler - 1 Great Hill (Paul Curtis)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Grassy Knoll (Amanda Vavilala)
Scarlet Tanager - 2 Green Bench (seen earlier by Rubon Giron)
Northern Cardinal - 5 including a juvenile begging from an adult female
Indigo Bunting - 2 (Harlem Meer, Nutter's Battery) (Benny Romero reported others).
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A service for Lee Rogers is scheduled for 2pm this Saturday at the Rustic Shelter (Summer House) in the Ramble with Rev. Bartlett from Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church presiding. At 2:30 birders will meet at the Evodia Field (near the bird feeders) for an informal memorial.
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Deb Allen
