Date: 10/22/26 1:30 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Thu. Oct. 22, 2026: Western Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bald Eagle
Central Park NYC
Thursday, October 22, 2026
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cool, breezing morning: Western Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bald Eagle. Plenty of Sparrows, but no Gray Catbirds, and fewer species of Wood Warblers.
Mallard - 15
Mourning Dove - 15-20
American Herring Gull - 5-10 flyovers
Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover Ramble
Bald Eagle - 1 flyover in 3rd- to 4th-year plumage over Vista Rock
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 10-15
Northern Flicker - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 4 or 5
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 14-16
American Crow - 13
Tufted Titmouse - 2 (Shakespeare Garden (Paul Curtis), west side Great Lawn)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 west side Great Lawn
Brown Creeper - 1 on the Point
Winter Wren - 3
Gray Catbird - NONE on our route today
Swainson's Thrush - 1 south east Turtle Pond
Hermit Thrush - 60-80
American Robin - 30-40
American Goldfinch - 1 Vista Rock
Chipping Sparrow - 2 Great Lawn
Dark-eyed Junco - 100-125
White-throated Sparrow - 75-100
Song Sparrow - 60-80
Eastern Towhee - 1 female Evodia Field
Common Grackle - 1 Locust Grove
Cape May Warbler - 1 Pinetum
Palm Warbler - 6-8
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15-20
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Western "Audubon's" Pinetum*
Northern Cardinal - 1 male Maintenance Field
*I encourage anyone birding near the Pinetum to look for this bird, which had a buffy-yellow wash on the throat. It was seen at 10:30am in the fenced lawn southeast of the elms and circular paved path, that borders the Great Lawn.
