Central Park, NYC Saturday April 8, 2023 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Eastern Phoebe, Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Brown Creeper, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Brown Thrasher, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm Warbler, Pine Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler. AND see the note on Governor's Island this morning at the end of the list. Canada Goose - 10 Wood Duck - 1 male Lake near the Oven Mallard - 8-10 Ring-necked Duck - 1 female Conservatory Water Mourning Dove - 25-30 Herring Gull - 3 or 4 flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 1 flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 8-10 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Lake near the Boathouse Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Great Horned Owl - 1 continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6-8 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4-5 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 8-10 Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue Jay - 12-16 Black-capped Chickadee - 3 Tufted Titmouse - 40-50 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3-4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4-6 Brown Creeper - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (the Point (Sandra Critelli), Boathoue Hill (Karen Evans)) Carolina Wren - 2 (pair) Maintenance Field (Karen Evans) Brown Thrasher - 1 Shakespeare Garden Hermit Thrush - 6-8 American Robin - 30-40 House Finch - 6-8 American Goldfinch - 2 Evodia Field feeders Chipping Sparrow - 8 Fox Sparrow - 4 Dark-eyed Junco - 9-12 White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Song Sparrow - 3 or 4 Swamp Sparrow - 3 Eastern Towhee - 2 males Belvedere Castle Red-winged Blackbird - 6-8 Common Grackle - 20-25 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 Balcony Bridge Palm Warbler - "Yellow" 4 Pine Warbler - 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Bow Bridge Northern Cardinal - 8-10 -- Elsewhere in New York County Brent Bomkamp documented a very rare bird for the county, a Short-eared Owl on Governor's Island: https://ebird.org/checklist/S133043550 -- Deb Allen Happy Passover, Easter, and Ramadan -- 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/ --
