Central Park NYC Sunday March 17, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob
Highlights: Hermit Thrush, uptick in Fox Sparrow numbers, Cooper's Hawks. Canada Goose - 70+ Reservoir incl. pairs looking for nest sites, 6 Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - 49 (14 Turtle Pond, 35 Lake) Mallard - more than 20 (Lake & Turtle Pond) Bufflehead - 3 south end Reservoir Ruddy Duck - Lake Mourning Dove - 8 Herring Gull - low numbers Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - 2 Evodia Field Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 perched on Beresford, 1 flyover) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Blue Jay - 28 American Crow - 8 in flyover flock E. 90th Street Black-capped Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 40+ Red-breasted Nuthatch - Evodia Field feeders White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Hermit Thrush - Mugger's Woods (over-wintered) American Robin - 56 including large flock on Great Lawn House Finch - pair Boathouse parking lot American Goldfinch - 12 Fox Sparrow - 11 (10 in Mugger's Woods) Song Sparrow - 7+ White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - 11 Red-winged Blackbird - singing at Oven, Evodia Field & Turtle Pond Common Grackle - 80+ Northern Cardinal - 8 A Common Raven flying south over Central Park West at 7:45am was inadvertently left out of Saturday's list. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
