Central Park NYC - North End Friday April 21, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob., on bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Highlight: 3 Yellow Warblers, Chipping Sparrows. Wood Duck - male Meer Gadwall - pair Meer Mallard - 5 Meer + Indian Runner Duck (domestic Mallard) Double-crested Cormorant - 4 Meer Great Egret - 2 (flyover & Meer) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker -residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - female Children's Glade Downy Woodpecker - friendly bird at Loch Northern Flicker - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - below Fort Clinton Blue Jay - residents Crow - 2 together (pair?) with nesting material (flyovers) Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Meer Black-capped Chickadee - Loch Tufted Titmouse - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 Loch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Loch & Great Hill) Hermit Thrush - 4 (Xander Vitarelli) American Robin - residents Yellow Warbler - 3 Loch Palm Warbler - 2 Loch (the usual subspecies "Yellow") Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10-12 (3 Meer Island, 2-4 elsewhere on Meer, 5 Loch) Eastern Towhee - 2 or 3 (both sexes) Chipping Sparrow - 25 Blowdown south of Great Hill Swamp Sparrow - 3 (2 Loch, 1 Pool) Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - male & female Meer Brown-headed Cowbird - female Common Grackle - 10 Deb Allen For bird walk schedule see www.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/ --
