Central Park NYC - North End Friday March 29, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido PhD, m.ob.
Highlights (Signs of Spring): Pine Warbler, Great Egret, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, Hairy Woodpecker, & more below. Canada Goose - pairs nesting at Reservoir since at least Thursday 3/28 Northern Shoveler - pair at the Pool Mallard - 20-30 Pool & Meer Ruddy Duck - 6 (5 males) Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - 2 or 3 American Woodcock - Great Hill Ring-billed Gull - 3 Harlem Meer Herring Gull - 5 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - around 5 Reservoir Great Blue Heron - perched at the Loch Great Egret - 2 (flyover North End, flyover Great Lawn) Cooper's Hawk - North Woods (Barry Pinchefsky) Red-tailed Hawk - immature perched Fort Clinton Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 males Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Hairy Woodpecker - female Blockhouse Northern Flicker - 7 Eastern Phoebe - 5 North Woods Blue Jay - 10-15 Crow species - 5 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Loch Tufted Titmouse - 20-30 mostly along the Loch White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 along the Loch Brown Creeper - Loch Winter Wren - Loch Golden-crowned Kinglet - 25 mostly along the Loch, some in North Woods Hermit Thrush - North Woods American Robin - many singing by 7am Chipping Sparrow - 2 (Great Hill & Green Bench) Field Sparrow - 3 Lily Ponds (David Barrett) Fox Sparrow - singing in North Woods Song Sparrow - around 20 (Gillian Henry) White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - flock of 30 Great Hill Red-winged Blackbird - 6 to 8 males at the Meer Common Grackle - 30-40 flyovers heading north Pine Warbler - 2 Lily Ponds Northern Cardinal - 2 males Conservatory Garden, others elsewhere A Palm Warbler was reported on the Great Lawn via twitter by Michael Waldron. A Northern Saw-whet Owl was reported at the North End on twitter Thursday (3/28/19) with video today from Ron Lugo. Barry Pinchefsky reported a pair of Red-tailed Hawks nesting on a building in the West 90s. For many more up-to-the-minute bird sightings see the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. 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/ --
