Central Park, NYC Sunday March 5, 2017 Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Boathouse at 9:30am
Highlights on a windy & cold day: Central Park:Red-headed Woodpecker, Fox Sparrows, and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. Central Park notes include a brief walk along the south end of the Reservoir before the walk (DA). Canada Goose - Reservoir & Lake American Black Duck - 2 Reservoir Mallard - 55+ Reservoir Northern Shoveler - at least 60 Lake Bufflehead - 3 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - around 60 SW Reservoir Mourning Dove - a few under feeders Herring Gull - 2 Reservoir (no other gulls observed there at 8am) Cooper's Hawk - immature male Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (Pine Hill & feeders) Red-headed Woodpecker - first-winter bird continues at the Dene (inside the park at about E. 68th Street) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 at 3 locations Downy Woodpecker - stealing some sap Blue Jay - many Black-capped Chickadee - several Tufted Titmouse - 24 Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch - feeders & elsewhere Brown Creeper - east side of Belvedere Castle (Bruno Boni) American Robin - small numbers House Finch - at least 6 feeders American Goldfinch - 2 Fox Sparrow - 3 south of Azalea Pond Song Sparrow - 2 (one singing at Bow Bridge) White-throated Sparrow - many Northern Cardinal - residents Common Grackle - at least 70 Shakespeare Garden -- On Saturday (March 4th) a Long-eared Owl reported on ebird.org by David Barrett was seen by many observers in Central Park. One of the birds that came in to mob the owl was a nice surprise, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. (Golden- and Ruby-crowned Kinglets over-winter in Central Park in very small numbers). -- Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx Sunday March 5, 2017 Robert DeCandid, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting at 6:30 pm. Three Eastern Screech-Owls were present in two different parts of the park Sunday evening, one of these heard-only, the other two birds were both gray-morphs that perched close together. We did not see the red-morph owl that we found on our last visit two weeks ago. Numbers of Canada Geese on the Parade Ground have dropped-off dramatically. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
