Central Park NYC - Ramble & the Dene Thursday April 13, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Highlights: House & Winter Wrens, warblers & kinglets, Red-headed Woodpecker continues. Canada Goose Mallard Mourning Dove Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (Turtle Pond & the Point) Red-tailed Hawk - San Remo Red-headed Woodpecker - 1st-cycle bird molting into 2nd-cycle plumage continues at the Dene Red-bellied Woodpecker - several pairs throughout Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Maintenance field Downy Woodpecker - several pairs throughout Northern Flicker - 2 pairs (Warbler Rock & east of feeders) Blue Jay Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - 2 (feeders & Warbler Rock) Tufted Titmouse - 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Oven White-breasted Nuthatch - several (Turtle Pond, feeders, Bandshell) House Wren - continues Shakespeare Garden Winter Wren - 2 on the Point Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 top of Point/Oven Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12 (Turtle Pond dock, Oven, and along Point) Hermit Thrush - 5 American Robin House Finch - 2 males at feeders American Goldfinch - 10 (feeding on elms seeds Shakespeare Garden, feeders) Black-and-white Warbler - male at top of Oven Palm Warbler - 1 east side of Ramble Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 (2 Turtle Pond Dock, 6 at the Point) Eastern Towhee - 3 (Ramble, Dene area, E85th Street exit) Chipping Sparrow - 5 to 10 (Great Lawn, Bandshell) Song Sparrow - 2 (Maintenance Field & Bow Bridge) White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - Turtle Pond & feeders Common Grackle - many locations Brown-headed Cowbird - male & female Maintenance Field Others reported via twitter (#birdcp retweeted by @BirdCentralPark) Savannah Sparrow & Rusty Blackbird (Adrian Burke), Blue-headed Vireo (Bradley Kane), Golden-crowned Kinglet (Doug Kurz). Yesterday's Yellow-throated Warbler may have been seen at the Point this morning. -- In the Bronx, a small flock of Cedar Waxwings was perched at Rhinelander & Wallace (10462 zip code) at 6:35 this morning by Birding Bob (RDC). 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/ --
