Central Park NYC - North End Friday April 29, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am until around noon.
Gadwall - pair Meer Mallard - several Meer Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers Great Egret - flyovers Snowy Egret - flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Chimney Swift - 6 (over Meer) but no swallows today Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 pairs Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 female Northern Flicker - 2 pairs Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Warbling Vireo - 8 House Wren - 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - less than 10 (not common today after being very common for 3 days) Gray Catbird - few Ovenbird - before walk; Loch Northern Waterthrush - 3 along the Loch Black-and-white Warbler - 7 (6 males) Blue-winged Warbler - 3 males, 1 female - Loch and North Woods Orange-crowned Warbler - west of Ft. Clinton/photographed by Bruno B. de Oliveira (tweeted at 9:15am) Nashville Warbler - 2 males photographed by Bruno B. de Oliveira Northern Parula - 1 males west of Blockhouse Yellow Warbler - male SW corner of Meer Palm Warbler - none Yellow-rumped Warbler - not many today males & females (7 total) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 males along the Loch Eastern Towhee - 2 Chipping Sparrow - 10 Swamp Sparrow - 3 (before walk) White-throated Sparrow - fairly common Baltimore Oriole - 1 American Goldfinch - 20 along Loch plus Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, American Robin, etc. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
