Central Park NYC Thursday April 20, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, et al on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
HIghlights: Yellow Warblers at 2 locations, Louisiana Waterthrush, & Green Heron. Canada Goose - Turtle Pond Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Gadwall - male Turtle Pond Mallard - 5+ Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Turtle Pond Great Egret - 2 Turtle Pond Green Heron - with orange legs - Point near the Boathouse Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Crow - flyover Pinetum Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee - feeders Tufted Titmouse Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Point & elsewhere - David Barrett) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3 American Robin American Goldfinch - some singing Louisiana Waterthrush - the Point Yellow Warbler - 2 (Point & Turtle Pond) Palm Warbler - 9 (5 Turtle Pond & 4 at the Point) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 13 (7Turtle Pond, 6 the Point) Eastern Towhee - 3 to 5 Chipping Sparrow - Sparrow Rock Field Sparrow - sparrow Rock Song Sparrow - pair island at Bow Bridge Swamp Sparrow - 3 Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - more today Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - feeders Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 or 2 Common Grackle 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/ --