Date: 10/26/25 3:30 pm
From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...>
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. Oct. 26, 2025: Wood Duck, Purple Finch, 5 Wood Warbler Species
Central Park NYC
Sunday, October 26, 2025
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.


Highlights: Wood Duck, Purple Finch, 5 Wood Warbler Species.


Canada Goose - southbound flock of around 30
Wood Duck - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Turtle Pond
Mourning Dove - 30-35
American Herring Gull - 20+ flyovers
Great Blue Heron - 1 immature Turtle Pond
Cooper's Hawk - 2 or 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8-10
Downy Woodpecker - 1 female Tupelo Field
Northern Flicker - 1 Captain's Bench
Blue Jay - 7-9
American Crow - noisy flock of 25-35 chasing Cooper's Hawk in the Ramble
Tufted Titmouse - 4 or 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8-10
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Maintenance Field, Tupelo Field)
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 or 4
Brown Creeper - 3
Carolina Wren - 3
Winter Wren - 1 west side of Azalea Pond
Gray Catbird - 4
Hermit Thrush - 60-70
American Robin - 15-20
Purple Finch - 6 including 2 males
American Goldfinch - 1 Belvedere Castle
Chipping Sparrow - 5 or 6
Dark-eyed Junco - 10-12
White-throated Sparrow - 90-100
Song Sparrow - 9 or 10
Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Azalea Pond, Swampy Pin Oak) in the Ramble
Eastern Towhee - 1 male Pinetum
Ovenbird - 2 in the Ramble
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 Laupot Bridge (reported by MIriam Rakowski)
Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Pinetum
Pine Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10-12
Northern Cardinal - 3 or 4

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Deb Allen


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