Central Park, NYC Sunday April 2, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cold, blustery, and sunny Sunday: Ring-necked Duck, Osprey, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm, Pine and Yellow-rumped Warblers, Rusty Blackbird. Canada Goose - 6 Northern Shoveler - 50-60 Mallard - 2 dozen Ring-necked Duck - 1 female continuing on the Conservatory Water Bufflehead - 4 Ruddy Duck - 6 Mourning Dove - 15-20 American Coot - 4 Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - 15-20 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Turtle Pond Great Blue Heron - the Pond SE part of the park* Black-crowned Night-Heron - The Pond SE part of the park* Osprey - flyover Turtle Pond (Mary Kate Horbac after lunch) Red-tailed Hawk - 4-5 including an adult over the 5th Ave. and 74th Street nest Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5-6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 in the Ramble Northern Flicker - 4-6 Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue Jay - 7-10 Black-capped Chickadee - 4-5 Tufted Titmouse - 30-40 Golden-crowned Kinglet -9-11 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5-7 Brown Creeper - 4-6 Carolina Wren - 2 Ramble Hermit Thrush - 2 Ramble American Robin - 60-70 House Finch - 8-10 Chipping Sparrow - 2 (Great Lawn, Sparrow Rock) Field Sparrow - 3 Sparrow Rock Fox Sparrow - 4-5 Dark-eyed Junco - 10-15 White-throated Sparrow - 40-50 Song Sparrow - 7-9 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Upper Lobe Red-winged Blackbird - 5-7 Rusty Blackbird - 1 female Swampy Pin Oak (another continued today at the Pool) Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 Swampy Pin Oak (FOS for the park) Palm Warbler - "Yellow" 2 Great Lawn Pine Warbler - 2 (Pinetum (Caren Jahre), Great Lawn) Yellow-rumped Warber - 1 reported at the Pool yesterday and today (Edmund Berry)** Northern Cardinal - 4-6 -- *Reported on Twitter @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher was reported at the North End today. -- **Edmund Berry reported an Eastern Bluebird near the Pool on Saturday via Twitter @EspressoBird -- Deb Allen -- 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/ --
