Central Park NYC Sunday April 24, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-throated and White-eyed Vireos, 9+ Species of Wood Warblers including Prairie and Yellow Warblers. Canada Goose - nests at Turtle Pond & the Oven, Goslings at the Harlem Meer Wood Duck - 4 (3 males, 1 female) Northern Shoveler - 2 Reservoir Gadwall - 3 at the Pool Mallard - 7 Bufflehead - pair Reservoir Mourning Dove - 18 Ring-billed Gull - first-cycle plumage Harlem Meer Double-crested Cormorant - a dozen Great Egret - flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (ad. Bow Bridge island, 1st-cycle at Harlem Meer island) Osprey - low flyover Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 in the Ramble Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 5 Northern Flicker - 2 east side of the Ramble American Kestrel - 1 flyover White-eyed Vireo - 3 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Humming Tombstone Blue-headed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 8 American Crow - flyover Cedar Hill Barn Swallow - 1 at the Pool Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10-15 Cedar Waxwing - 6 at Maintenance Field Brown Creeper - 2 (Turtle Pond & the Loch) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Winter Wren - 3 House Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden (David Barrett) Gray Catbird - 2 at the Loch Brown Thrasher - 3-5 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Boathouse Cafe Hermit Thrush - 6-8 Wood Thrush - 1 south of Tupelo Field American Robin - 15-20 House Finch - 6-9 Purple Finch - 1 in the Ramble (Sandra Critelli after lunch) American Goldfinch - 4-6 Chipping Sparrow - 15-20 Field Sparrow - 5 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 100-150 Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 4 Eastern Towhee - 7-10 (males & females) Red-winged Blackbird - female building a nest on the island in Harlem Meer - nearly completed Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 1 in the Ramble (Ryan Serio) Northern Waterthrush - 4 or 5 (Swampy Pin Oak, Oven, and Loch) Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 6 (4 males, 2 females) Palm Warbler - 3 Pine Warbler - 2 south side of Turtle Pond Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10-15 Prairie Warbler - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & south side of Turtle Pond) Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male Shakespeare Garden Northern Cardinal - 4-6 in the Ramble, others elsewhere -- Bill Heck reported a Solitary Sandpiper at the Pool. Orchard and Baltimore Orioles were reported in the Ramble. The Prothonotary Warbler was reported again at the North End, this time at the Loch. -- Deb Allen
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