Central Park NYC Sunday April 9, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am, with some pre-walk & after lunch birding.
Highlights: Louisiana Waterthrush (3 locations), Common Loons, Red-headed Woodpecker. Also see note below on E. Whip-poor-will. Canada Goose - small numbers (appears that just birds that will attempt breeding remain) Gadwall - 2 pairs Meer American Black Duck - female Meer Mallard - many locations Northern Shoveler - many fewer (3 Turtle Pond, around a dozen on Reservoir) Green-winged Teal - pair Oven/Point (Initially reported today from Bow Bridge by Ed Gaillard) Bufflehead - 9 or 10 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 48 (27 Reservoir, 21 Meer) Pied-billed Grebe - breeding plumage Reservoir Red-necked Grebe - with flock of Ruddy Ducks in SE Reservoir before the walk Mourning Dove - various locations Ring-billed, Herring, & Great Black-backed Gull - total around 60 birds for all 3 species (only around 30 at 8am) Common Loon - 2 (adult in breeding plumage NE Reservoir, immature seen early SW Reservoir moved to NE later) Double-crested Cormorant - several Reservoir, 4 Turtle Pond & some flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 6 (5 Turtle Pond, 1 island near Bow Bridge) Sharp-shinned Hawk - Oven (Sandra Critelli after lunch) (perhaps the same bird reported earlier by Janet Wooten at Warbler Rock) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (immature chased by American Crow at Reservoir, 2 circling over Willow Rock) Red-headed Woodpecker - immature still molting into 2nd cycle plumage at the Dene (E. 68th Street) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - several locations Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - male at Tupelo Field Eastern Phoebe -5 (Pinetum, Great Lawn, Shakespeare Garden, Meer, 2 Loch) Blue Jay - various locations American Crow - chasing Red-tailed Hawk at south end of Reservoir (others outside the park on the East Side) Black-capped Chickadee - at least 4 Tufted Titmouse - many fewer Red-breast Nuthatch - Swampy Pin Oak/Summer House Meadow White-breasted Nuthatch - various locations Brown Creeper - the Point (4 of us after lunch) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 13 (Turtle Pond Dock & south side Turtle Pond/Castle Walk) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Tupelo Field (Gillian Henry & Andrea Hessel) American Robin - dozens Northern Mockingbird - Meer near Conservatory Garden House Finch - singing Conservatory Garden American Goldfinch - a few at feeders (one male getting nice color) Louisiana Waterthrush - 3 (between Azalea Pond & Oven, Loch (Bob after lunch), Oak Bridge (Sandra Critelli after lunch) Palm Warbler - 2 Loch (Bob after lunch) Chipping Sparrow - feeders Field Sparrow - the Dene (Emilie Storrs) Fox Sparrow - Maintenance Field (Jane) Song Sparrow - Turtle Pond Swamp Sparrow - island Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - 2 locations Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - feeders Common Grackle - various locations Deborah Alperin found an injured male Eastern Whip-poor-will on 38th Street & Sixth Avenue on Friday morning (Apr. 7th) and delivered it to the Wild Bird Fund for treatment. This a fairly early date for the species in our region, but other records are earlier. 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/ --
