Central Park NYC - Sunday April 16, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Highlighs: 3 Falcon Day - American Kestrel, Merlin, & Peregrine Falcon. Canada Goose - Turtle Pond, Reservoir Wood Duck - dark-billed male Reservoir (before walk) Mallard - Turtle Pond & Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 8 Reservoir (before walk) Bufflehead - 8 Reservoir (before walk) Ruddy Duck - 6 Reservoir (before walk) Pied-billed Grebe - Reservoir (before walk) Mourning Dove - many locations Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - 28 Reservoir (before walk - 7:40am) Common Loon - immature Reservoir (before walk) Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Turtle Pond & flyovers Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Turkey Vulture - 2 flyovers (Jeff Ward) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Upper Lobe (Carine Mitchell) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - in Sweetgum south end of Maintenance Field (Jeff Ward) Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 4 (1 Oven, 3 Oak Bridge) American Kestrel - male Great Lawn (RDC before walk) Merlin - perched over Turtle Pond dock, flew over Great Lawn & turned west Peregrine Falcon - flyover feeders (Jeff Ward) Blue-headed Vireo - Castle Walk (Jeff Ward) Blue Jay - residents Barn Swallow - 2 Oak Bridge Black-capped Chickadee - feeders Tufted Titmouse - singing at the Point Red-breasted Nuthatch - Summer House (Jeff Ward) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 or 5 (Castle Walk, feeders (Deb Alperin), Point, Warbler Rock, Summer House) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7 (Turtle Pond (Will Schenck), Castle Walk, Maint. Field, Point, Summer House, 2 Tupelo Fld.) Hermit Thrush - 2 (Tupelo Field (Will Schenck) & Upper Lobe) House Finch - 2 males at feeders (Carine Mitchell) American Goldfinch - 5 feeders Black-and-white Warbler - male at the Point Palm Warbler - Tupelo Field (Will Schenck), 2 before walk (RDC) Pine Warbler - male on feeder at Evodia Field (Jeff Ward) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 (Pinetum (before walk), Bow Bridge (Jeff Ward), Summer House (Andrea Hessel)) Eastern Towhee - 2 Tupelo Field Chipping Sparrow - feeders (Carine Mitchell) Field Sparrow - Maintenance Field Song Sparrow - singing Bow Bridge Island (Andrea Hessel) Swamp Sparrow - 3 (Tupelo Field (Jeff Ward), 2 Upper Lobe) White-throated Sparrow - many fewer, but still many Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - 2 (female Tupelo Field, male feeders) Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 (Turtle Pond, Maintenance Field, 2 Summer House) Deb Allen Jeff Ward reported a Hairy Woodpecker at the North End, and there were lots of tweets from the northern part of the park this morning, especially from Chris Cooper (Northern Waterthrush & Merlin) and Andrew Bergen's Rusty Blackbird tweeted by Kyu Lee. The Red-necked Grebe was reported from the Reservoir late in the morning by Wolfgang Demisch. -- 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/ --
