Central Park - 27th Sept.

With terrible weather during the week on my day off, and no birding last weekend I decided to try an maximise my chances of good warblers in what remains of the autumn migration season by birding Central Park. It was just unfortunate that this was the day that the Global Citizen Festival was also to be held in CP. And the sound check started at 9:10am. Wow.

The birding itself had been pretty good up until that point however. At dawn I found myself on the northern edge of the Sheep Meadow surrounded by a flock of Eastern Towhees, Brown Thrashers, Eastern Wood-Pewee and a couple of Prairie Warblers. I took this as a good omen and proceeded to the Ramble. A fair amount there including numerous Magnolia Warblers, a couple of Northern Parula, Blue-headed Vireo, Brown Thrasher, Scarlet Tanager, White-throated Sparrow and several Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.

At about this time the sound check for the concert started up, so I retreated to the Strawberry Fields area which was very nice. As well as several more Magnolia Warblers and Northern Parula, there were also a Black-and-white Warbler, 2 American Redstart, 2 more Brown Thrashers and a female Canada Warbler.

Brown Thrasher. Loads about today. Very smart bird.

Female Northern Parula.

Female Magnolia Warbler. A real feature of today was the numbers of this species almost everywhere.