Date: 10/17/26 2:56 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC, Sat. Oct. 17, 2026: Red-headed Woodpecker, E. Meadowlark, Tennessee Nashville, and Cape May Warblers
Central Park, NYC
Saturday, October 17, 2026
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Red-headed Woodpecker, Eastern Meadowlark, Tennessee, Nashville, and Cape May Warblers.
Canada Goose - 5
Mallard - 9
Mourning Dove - 10-15
American Herring Gull - 5-10 flyovers
Great Blue Heron - 1 Turtle Pond
Turkey Vulture - 5 flyovers
Cooper's Hawk - 3
Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 adult flying from the Point to the Ramble (Sandra Critelli)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 15-20
Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Northern Flicker - 1 Ramble
Eastern Phoebe - 3 or 4
Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Evodia Field
Blue Jay - 12-15
American Crow - 4 or 5
Tufted Titmouse - 2 (North Maintenance Field, the Point)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 or 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Ramble
Brown Creeper - 1 east of Azalea Pond
Gray Catbird - 10-12
Brown Thrasher - 2 or 3
Swainson's Thrush - 2 Ramble
Hermit Thrush - 20-25
American Robin - 25-35
Field Sparrow- 2 Pinetum
Dark-eyed Junco - 4 or 5
White-throated Sparrow - 40-50
Song Sparrow - 4 or 5
Eastern Towhee - 15-20
Eastern Meadowlark - 1 Great Lawn (David Barrett-close to 5pm)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 males northwest Great Lawn
Common Grackle - 3 or 4
Ovenbird - 1 Ramble
Black-and-white Warbler - 3
Tennessee Warbler - Pinetum (Dan Stevenson)
Nashville Warbler - Pinetum (Paul Curtis)
Cape May Warbler - 4 or 5 Pinetum
Northern Parula - 3
Pine Warbler - 4 or 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 or 4
Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5
