Central Park NYC Friday April 15, 2022 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Green Heron, Osprey, Tree and Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Pine, Palm, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Canada Goose - 18 (nesting on island at the Meer) Northern Shoveler - pair at the Pool, 36 on the Reservoir Gadwall - 4 (pairs at the Harlem Meer and Pool), also at the Reservoir Mallard - 6 Bufflehead - 8 on the Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 7 Harlem Meer, 11 on the Reservoir Mourning Dove - 6 near Compost American Coot - 7 Reservoir (2 of these reported by Dorothy Lourdou) Ring-billed Gull - 2 Harlem Meer Herring Gull - around 50 at the Reservoir, plus flyovers at the North End Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Harlem Meer one of them in an epic struggle with a Brown Bullhead Snowy Egret - 6 flyovers Harlem Meer Green Heron - adult Harlem Meer island Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Harlem Meer island Turkey Vulture - 2 flyovers at the Pool Osprey - low flyover Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (pair at 5th Ave. nest on Cardinal Cooke, adult at the Pool (Caren Jahre)) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 (Scott Brevda) Downy Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Northern Flicker - 3 Blue Jay - several Tree Swallow - 1 over Harlem Meer Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 over Harlem Meer Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8 Brown Creeper - 5 Brown Thrasher - 2 at the Maintenance Field after lunch Hermit Thrush - 4 American Robin - 15-20 Chipping Sparrow - 4 Field Sparrow - 3 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 near plant nursery (Scott Brevda) Song Sparrow - 4 Swamp Sparrow - 2 at the Pool (Peter Haskel and Dan Stevenson) Eastern Towhee - male Maintenance Field after lunch Red-winged Blackbird - 9 Rusty Blackbird - 1 male west end of the Pool Common Grackle - several Palm Warbler - 14-16 Pine Warbler - 1 male at the Pool Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal - 5 Peaceful Holidays to All, Deb Allen
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