Central Park NYC Sunday March 19, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cold & blustery day: Turkey Vulture, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Fox Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Song Sparrow. Canada Goose - 86 including 5 pairs at the Reservoir Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir with Mallard hen Northern Shoveler - 38 Mallard - 54 Bufflehead - 11 Hooded Merganser - pair Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 16 Mourning Dove - 25-30 American Coot - 6 Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - 36 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir Turkey Vulture - 3 flyovers (Sandra Critelli) Cooper's Hawk - 1 Turtle Pond Island Red-tailed Hawk - 3-4 including an adult carrying nesting material over the Castle Great Horned Owl - 1 continues (David Barrett) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5-6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 males Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Northern Flicker - 1 Turtle Pond lawn Blue Jay - 20-30 American Crow - heard Black-capped Chickadee - 5-7 Tufted Titmouse - 25-35 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 male Shakespeare Garden Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden (David Barrett) White-breasted Nuthatch - 8-10 Carolina Wren - pair Evodia Field near feeders American Robin - 40-50 House Finch - 4-6 American Goldfinch - 3 Fox Sparrow - 4 Dark-eyed Junco - 8-10 White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Song Sparrow - 20-25 (3 singing) Red-winged Blackbird - 3-4 Common Grackle - 20-30 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Wolfgang Demisch reported a Great Blue Heron at the Pond (SE corner of the park). -- Deb Allen -- Respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz. (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/ --
