Central Park NY Friday April 9, 2021 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Eastern Meadowlark, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Golden- and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Eastern Phoebe.
Later at Carl Schurz Park, the first-spring female Western Tanager continued at the feeders showing a considerable amount of molt in the greater coverts and tail, and two fairly fresh tertials on each wing. Canada Goose - 17 + a bird sitting on eggs at the south end of the Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 32 Gadwall - 4 Mallard - not many Bufflehead - 5 Hooded Merganser - young male with a bit of white on the crest at Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 5 Mourning Dove - 4 American Coot - 3 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 150 Greater Black-backed Gull - 6 Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Red-tailed Hawk - 3, though none seen at 5th Ave/106th Street nest Barred Owl - continued (pointed out by Beth Goffe) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 on north side of the Pool Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 (Wildflower Meadow) Eastern Phoebe - North Woods Blue Jay - 12 (6 mobbing the Barred Owl) American Crow - 2 flyovers Tufted Titmouse - 4 or 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - heard at the Loch Golden-crowned Kinglet - the Loch Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Green Bench and the Pool) Hermit Thrush - North Woods American Robin - 50+ Northern Mockingbird - 2 Plant Propagation Area House Finch - heard Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Loch (Alison Schondorf) Song Sparrow - 3 (one singing) Eastern Meadowlark - lone bird continued at North Meadow Ball Fields Red-winged Blackbird - 4 singing males Common Grackle - half a dozen Yellow-rumped Warbler - female north side of the Pool Northern Cardinal - 5 Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
