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Central Park
New York
17 September 2007
Observers: F. Simpson
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Trip Reports | Home fssbirding.org.uk |
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Central Park New York |
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17 September 2007 |
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Observers: F. Simpson |
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INTRODUCTION
With a 10 hour stopover in New York, en route from Lima to
London, I had to visit to Central Park in Manhattan. I was last here in October
2002 on a quiet autumn day. Today the Big Apple was like the summer day London
never had this year. And the locals knew it too… it was thronged with people.
Despite this there were many birds to be found. American Robins were everywhere
(why did I take an overnight bus to Yorkshire for one earlier this year?) I was
happy enough to complete my set of New World kingfishers with a Belted and
another US hummer but it was also a good time for the fall migrants. I spent
most of the day in the undergrowth so probably missed out on any raptors heading
south. The only birders I met this time were at Belvedere Castle who were wondering
whether a Solitary Sandpiper on the Turtle Pond (admittedly, viewed from above –
not the best angle) was a Louisiana Waterthrush! I got there from JFK using the
Skytrain ($5 Metrocard), the Long Island Rail Road ($6 return) to Penn Station
followed by a big slow yellow taxi ($9)… probably quicker walking there! Didn’t
have time too eat so had a 100 Grand bar, yum.
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Mallard Anas platyrhyncos Gadwall Anas strepera Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Feral Pigeon Columba livia Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris Belted Kingfisher Ceryle torquata Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapilla Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus House Wren Troglodytes aedon Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula American Robin Turdus migratorius Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina Veery Catharus fuscescens Swainson's Thrush Catharaus ustulatus Gray-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum European Starling Sturnus vulgaris Tennessee Warbler Vermivora peregrina Nashville Warbler Vermivora ruficapilla Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanica Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroica coronata Pine Warbler Dendroica pinus Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus Northern Waterthrush Seiurus noveboracensis Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis Wilson's Warbler Wilsonia pusilla Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Two more from the train: Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
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All photographs © 2007 F. S. Simpson Fraser's Birding Website · fssbirding.org.uk |
