Date: 10/24/26 3:03 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC & Wave Hill, Bronx: Pine Siskin, 6 Warbler Sp. in CPK, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Rufous Hummingbird at Wave Hill
Central Park NYC & Wave Hill, Bronx
Saturday, October 24, 2026
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Central Park Highlights: Great Blue Heron, Pine siskinFlock, 6 Species of Wood Warblers including Black-and-white Warbler, NorthernParula, and Black-throated Blue Warbler.
Wave Hill, Bronx Highlights Only: The Black-throated GrayWarbler continued for a second day. Also nearby were both a RufousHummingbird and a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, all with many observersthroughout the day.
Central Park List:
Canada Goose - 10
Wood Duck - 1 male Upper Lobe
Mallard - 15
Hooded Merganser - 3
Mourning Dove - 9-12
Laughing Gull - 5
American Herring Gull - 30 flyovers
Ring-billed and American Herring Gulls - around 350
Great Black-backed Gull - 4
Great Blue Heron - 1 Turtle Pond
Cooper's Hawk - 2 Ramble
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8-10
Downy Woodpecker - 1 Maintenance Field
Northern Flicker - 3
Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Oven
Blue Jay - 14-16
American Crow - 8 or 9
Tufted Titmouse - 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Oven
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Brown Creeper - 1 Ramble (Sandra Critelli)
Gray Catbird - 1 southeast Turtle Pond
Brown Thrasher - 2 Evodia Field
Northern Mockingbird - 1 Sparrow Rock
Hermit Thrush - 60-80
American Robin - 30-40
Pine Siskin - flock of around 50 Pinetum (Deb)
Dark-eyed Junco - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 30-40
Song Sparrow - 8-10
Eastern Towhee - 5
Common Grackle - 6-8
Black-and-white Warbler - 2 Ramble
Northern Parula - 2 (Pinetum (Edmund Berry), Oven (Deb))
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Summer House
Palm Warbler - 1 Pinetum
Pine Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Pinetum (Edmund Berry,Paul Curtis))
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15-20
Northern Cardinal - 7-9
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