Central Park NYC - North End Friday April 14, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Highlight: Lots of activity in the Loch including flycatching Pine Warblers. Canada Goose - pair Wood Duck - male Meer (rumpled-looking bird with a dark bill) Mallard - not many Meer Ruddy Duck - 2 males Meer Mourning Dove - several locations, some nest-building Double-crested Cormorant - 2 on Meer & flyovers Great Egret - flyover Conservatory Garden Red-tailed Hawk - adult circling overhead Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Great Hill (James) Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 7-10 (courtship displays at the Meer & Loch) Eastern Phoebe - Loch (Tom Ahlf) Blue Jay - residents, some courting American Crow - 5 noisy birds at the Great Hill Fish Crow - 2 heard & seen Wildflower Meadow before walk Tree Swallow - Blockhouse heading toward Meer Black-capped Chickadee - Loch Tufted Titmouse - several Loch White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Loch, North Woods) Brown Creeper - 2 (Loch) Winter Wren - Loch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - at least 3 Loch Golden-crowned Kinglet - Loch (James) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - at least 10 (Loch & Great Hill) Hermit Thrush - 2 Ridge Trail American Robin - many locations Brown Thrasher - singing Loch Palm Warbler - 2 Loch Pine Warbler - 4 or 5 (Loch) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 (Loch & Ridge Trail (Xander Vitarelli)) Eastern Towhee - at least 4 (Blockhouse, Great Hill) Chipping Sparrow - 15 Grassy Knoll after walk Savannah Sparrow - Grassy Knoll after walk Song Sparrow - 2 Swamp Sparrow - 3 (singing east side Meer, Meer island, Loch (Xander Vitarelli)) White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - at least 3 (Nutter's Battery before walk) Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - 5 including pair (Nutter's Battery & Meer), Common Grackle - around 20 Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 (2 males & 2 females) Loch Deb Allen For bird walk schedule see BirdingBob.com -- 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/ --
