Central Park NYC - North End Friday, April 20, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Windy and cold this morning: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Blue-headed Vireo, Palm Warbler, many Hermit Thrushes & Ruby-crowned Kinglets, a nice selection of sparrows, and both American Kestrel & Peregrine Falcon. Canada Goose - 6 Meer Mallard - Meer Ruddy Duck - Meer Mourning Dove - 6 Green Bench Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 2 or 3 at the Meer & 2 or 3 flyovers Great Egret - Meer & 2 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 Meer Island (Duck Island) Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (pair 5th Ave. & 106/108th Street, pair Central Park West & 95/96) Red-bellied Woodpecker - male in willow on west side of the Pool Downy Woodpecker - female fed peanuts by hand south side of the Great Hill Northern Flicker - 6 to 8 American Kestrel - male caught sparrow on the south shore of the Meer around noon Peregrine Falcon - juvenile female chasing Red-tailed Hawks Eastern Phoebe - west side of the Pool (Bob - early) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Great Hill (David Barrett) & Loch) Blue Jay - residents Crow - 2 flyovers (silent) White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 or 2 (heard - David Barrett) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Green Bench (Bob - early) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25 to 30 Hermit Thrush - 50 American Robin - many (including 30 just on the North Meadow Ballfields) Brown Thrasher - along the Loch House Finch - a few along the Loch American Goldfinch - 2 or 3 along the Loch Eastern Towhee - 2 Loch Field Sparrow - south Great Hill Song Sparrow - Loch Swamp Sparrow - 2 Loch White-throated Sparrow - 20 Dark-eyed Junco - 12 Great Hill Red-winged Blackbird - 6 males Meer Common Grackle - 8 Meer Palm Warbler - 1 in 2 locations (Loch 7AM, and along Meer) Northern Cardinal - residents On twitter this morning @BirdCentralPark: Jordan Spindel reported an Ovenbird near West 86th Street Spencer Galen reported both Northern and Louisiana Waterthrushes at the Pond Matt Klein reported the Seaside Sparrow at the Pond Chris Cooper reported a Northern Waterthrush at Ladies' Pavilion -- 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/ --
