Central Park NYC Saturday April 3, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Northern Parula, Palm Warbler, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Common Raven. Canada Goose - 27 Northern Shoveler 64 Gadwall - 1 male Reservoir Mallard - 20 Bufflehead - 8 Hooded Merganser - 6 Ruddy Duck - 1 female Reservoir Mourning Dove - 11 American Coot - 8 Herring Gull - 16 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - one second-year/first-cycle male Evodia Field Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (one carrying nesting material) Barred Owl - continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 4 Eastern Phoebe - 3 (Pinetum, Turtle Pond, Ramble) Blue Jay - 6 or 7 American Crow - 3 Common Raven - flyover Great Lawn Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 Turtle Pond (found by Wolfgang Demisch*) Black-capped chickadee - 14 Tufted Titmouse - 15 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 Brown Creeper - 2 (Oven, Shakespeare Garden) Golden-crowned Kinglet - Turtle Pond Island (Carine Mitchell) Hermit Thrush - 1 Turtle Pond American Robin - 50+ House Finch - 8 American Goldfinch - 12-15 Dark-eyed Junco - 6 White-throated Sparrow - 40+ Song Sparrow - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 3 Brown-headed Cowbird - 6 common Grackle - 10 Northern Parula - singing male continued SW Reservoir Palm Warbler - east side of Turtle Pond (Sandra Critelli) Northern Cardinal - 8 Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC *For this other New York County bird reports see the Manhattan Bird Alert on twitter @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --