Central Park NYC Saturday March 30, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a mild and mostly-sunny Saturday: Pine Warbler (3), Brown Creeper (4), Osprey, Field, Fox, Chipping & other sparrows, Yellow-belied Sapsuckers & Northern Flickers, E. Phoebes. Canada Goose - at least 4 pairs Reservoir (nest at E. 89th), 4 Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - 41 (39 Reservoir, 2 Lake) Mallard - 12 Turtle Pond, others Lake & Reservoir Bufflehead - 3 (2 males & 1 female Reservoir) Hooded Merganser - pair Turtle Pond Ruddy Duck - 3 (2 males & 1 female Lake) Mourning Dove - 3 (2 Evodia Field, 1 Shakespeare Garden) American Coot - 3 east side Reservoir Ring-billed Gull - several Reservoir Herring Gull - several Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - second-year Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 3 or 4 (1 Turtle Pond, 2 or 3 Reservoir) Osprey - flyover (Matthieu Benoit) Cooper's Hawk - immature male (east side of Tupelo Field) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (immature low flyover Turtle Pond, adult over west side) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - around 10, all males Downy Woodpecker - 7 Northern Flicker - 10 to 15 (Pair together at Maintenance Field) Eastern Phoebe - 6 or 7 Blue Jay - quiet today American Crow - heard east of Willow Rock Black-capped Chickadee - 2 east end of Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - around 30 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Locust Grove (Karen Evans & Mark Siegeltuch) White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Brown Creeper - 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Azalea Pond Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3 in Ramble American Robin - at least 50 Northern Mockingbird - east side Turtle Pond, flew west Cedar Waxwing - uphill from Boathouse American Goldfinch - 13 mostly at feeders Eastern Towhee - female east end of Turtle Pond, another heard in Ramble Chipping Sparrow - east end Turtle Pond (Gillian Henry) Field Sparrow - Upper Lobe Lawn Fox Sparrow - 6 Song Sparrow - 15 White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - 30 Red-winged Blackbird - displaying male Bow Bridge, 4 at feeders incl. 2 females Common Grackle - around 30 Pine Warbler - 3 or 4 (1 feeders (David Barrett), 3 Maintenance Field) Northern Cardinal 10+ 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/ --
