Central Park NYC Sunday March 12, 2023 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Double-crested Cormorant, American Woodcock, Great Blue Heron, Brown Creeper, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, Red-winged Blackbird. Flaco, a Eurasian Eagle-Owl former denizen of the Central Park Zoo, reappeared at the north end. Canada Goose - around 400 Wood Duck - 1 male with Mallard hen Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 19 Gadwall - 1 at the Pool Mallard - 55 Bufflehead - 3 Ruddy Duck - 3 Mourning Dove - 22 American Coot - 6 American Woodcock - 1 below Balancing Rock (Sandra Critelli) Ring-billed Gull - 25 Herring Gull - 5 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 1 adult flyover Great Blue Heron - 2 (1 adult, 1 immature) Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - 2 (perched adult Evodia Field, flyover Swampy Pin Oak) Red-tailed Hawk - 4 including 2 perched on nest 5th Ave. & 74th Street (Tom Walsh) Great Horned Owl - continuing Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Pinetum Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 1 male Belvedere Castle overlook Blue Jay - 15-20 American Crow - 6 Black-caped Chickadee - 4-5 Tufted Titmouse - 30-40 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5-7 Brown Creeper - 2 (Laupot Bridge & the Oven) Carolina Wren - 1 singing at Willow Rock Hermit Thrush - 1 Ramble American Robin - 50-60 Fox Sparrow - 5-6, some singing White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Song Sparrow - 3 singing Eastern Towhee - 3 (singing male, female, one heard-only) Red-winged Blackbird - 4-8 Common Grackle - 10-20 Northern Cardinal - 10-12 Deb Allen -- Respect for the rights of others is peace. - Benito Juarez -- 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/ --
