Central Park NYC Thursday, April 26, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
A slow day, but still some good birds around: Summer Tanager, Black-and-white, Yellow-rumped & Palm Warblers, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Wood Duck, Red-throated Loon, Indigo Bunting, Blue-headed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Field Sparrow, Peregrine Falcon. Canada Goose - Turtle Pond & Reservoir Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Mallard - not many, but males chasing females (Reservoir, Turtle Pond) Bufflehead - 4 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 6 Reservoir Mourning Dove - a dozen at feeders, pair Shakespeare Garden American Coot - Reservoir Herring Gull - 20 Reservoir Great black-backed Gull - 3 Reservoir Red-throated Loon - SW Reservoir (continuing) Double-crested Cormorant - a dozen (Reservoir, Turtle Pond, & flyovers) Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - adult seen at Riviera, then moved to Point/Oven (FOS)* Red-tailed Hawk - adult over Upper Lobe/Oak Bridge Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 pairs (2 Ramble, 1 Oven, 1 Locust Grove) Downy Woodpecker - several locations Northern Flicker - pair at/near Warbler Rock Peregrine Falcon - second-year (juvenile) female over Pinetum Blue-headed Vireo - Riviera Blue Jay - pairing up in small, noisy groups Barn Swallow - 2 Reservoir Tufted Titmouse - north side of Bow Bridge House Wren - singing Shakespeare Garden Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Oven Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 (4 of these on the north side of Bow Bridge) American Robin - nesting House Finch - 8 feeders American Goldfinch - a dozen (feeders & Pinetum) Eastern Towhee - 4 (3 male & 1 female - a pair at feeders) Chipping Sparrow - 2 (Summit Rock - early a.m.) Field Sparrow - bathing in a puddle at Maintenance Field Song Sparrow - Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - 15 Dark-eyed Junco - 4 Pinetum Red-winged Blackbird - 6 males Brown-headed Cowbird - female Swampy Pin Oak Common Grackle - 8-10 (Oven & Turtle Pond) Black-and-white Warbler - adult male (Riviera, moved to Oven) Palm Warbler - 2 (the Point & Turtle Pond) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15 Summer Tanager - female SW Reservoir (continuing) Northern Cardinal - residents Indigo Bunting - male lawn north of Met Museum (continuing) *The first-of-season Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was tweeted by Matthew Rymkiewicz at 6:26 this morning. See @BirdCentralPark for more NY County bird alerts. Congratulations to Peter Post for his Lesser Black-backed Gull at the Central Park Reservoir. Gull numbers are highest there at mid-day, making that the best time to check for rarities. 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/ --
