Central Park NYC - Saturday & Sunday March 26-27, 2016 Saturday March 26, 2016 OBS: R. DeCandido, D. Allen, m.ob. on bird walk
Bufflehead - male Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - adult over Shakespeare Garden (Jessica Newman), 2 over Upper Lobe Mourning Dove - pair at nest Shakespeare Garden (Brad Woodward) Red-bellied Woodpecker - excavating nest Locust Grove (Jeff Ward), Pinetum, Evodia Field Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Maintenance Field, Belvedere Castle (Ginny De Liagre), Shakespeare Garden, Great Lawn Northern Flicker - several Maintenance Field, 6 Locust Grove, Pinetum Eastern Phoebe - Boathouse, Great Lawn (Jeff W.), Upper Lobe Lawn, Mugger's Woods, the Oven American Crow - 6 over Maintenance Field Black-capped Chickadee - feeders & Laupot Bridge Tufted Titmouse - feeders & Mugger's Woods White-breasted Nuthatch - several locations Brown Creeper - the Oven (found by birders from Nova Scotia) Golden-crowned Kinglet - Pinetum 2 found by Alice Deutsch, Great Lawn and Oven (Jeff Ward) Pine Warbler - Belvedere Castle (found by Pedro from Spain), Pinetum Eastern Towhee - male Azalea Pond (Jeff W.) probably the bird seen later at the Oven Fox Sparrow - 2 at feeders, 5 or 6 Mugger's Woods Song Sparrow - various locations Dark-eyed Junco - Locust Grove, etc. White-throated Sparrow - various locations Red-winged Blackbird - several locations Common Grackle House Finch - Evodia Field & Upper Lobe American Goldfinch - Evodia Field Earlier at the Reservoir (3/26): Canada Goose - 4 Mallard - not many Northern Shoveler - around 180 Bufflehead - 3 males, 3 females Hooded Merganser - pair Ruddy Duck - 22 Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant - at least 8 American Coot - 3 & the usual 3 gull species - not many Sunday March 27, 2016 OBS: R. DeCandido, D. Allen, m.ob. on bird walk Bufflehead - male Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - Bow Bridge Mourning Dove - pair at nest deciduous tree in Shakespeare Garden (Jeff Ward), prob. nest Pinetum Red-bellied Woodpecker - feeders, Turtle Pond, pair still working on nest at Locust Grove Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Pinetum (Mayra & Noa Cruz), Mugger's Woods Downy Woodpecker - 2 Shakespeare Garden, 1 Upper Lobe Northern Flicker - Maintenance Field, Locust Grove Downy Woodpecker - Boathouse, feeders Eastern Phoebe - Turtle Pond, 2 Great Lawn/Locust Grove Black-capped Chickadee - Bow Bridge (Sandra Critelli) Tufted Titmouse - 2 in elm Upper Lobe White-breasted Nuthatch - feeders, 2 Locust Grove, Laupot Bridge Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Pinetum (Jeff W.) Pine Warbler - male Turtle Pond (Jeff Ward) Eastern Towhee - Boathouse Fox Sparrow - Feeders (Jeff W.), Laupot Bridge, 2 Mugger's Woods Song Sparrow - feeders, Pinetum, Gill Overlook (Andrea Hessel) Dark-eyed Junco - Maintenance Field (Louise Burns), the Point Red-winged Blackbird - feeders, the Point Brown-headed Cowbird - male at the Point (Jeff W.) House Finch - feeders American Goldfinch - feeders Tom Walsh reported a Tree Swallow at Turtle Pond Sunday afternoon. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --