Central Park NYC Sunday April 9, 2023 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Great Egret, Osprey, Peregrine Falcon, Blue-headed Vireo, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Winter Wren, Palm & Pine Warblers. Canada Goose - 20 Wood Duck - 1 male on the Lake Mallard - 10-15 Ring-necked Duck - 1 female continues on the Conservatory Water Bufflehead - 6 Hooded Merganser - 4 Ruddy Duck - 3 Mourning Dove - 20-25 American Coot - 1 Reservoir Herring Gull - 18 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 11 Great Blue Heron - 1 Lake (Kris Mirasola) Great Egret - 1 Lake Osprey - 1 flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 Great Horned Owl - 1 continues (David Barrett) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5-7 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Ramble Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Northern Flicker - 6-8 Peregrine Falcon - 1 flyover Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Turtle Pond, Ramble) Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Turtle Pond near King of Poland Blue Jay - 15-20 including a pair building a nest at Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - 3 Tufted Titmouse - 20-30 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Tupelo Field, Sparrow Rock) White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 or 4 Brown Creeper - 1 Ramble Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Tupelo Field Carolina Wren - pair Evodia Field Winter Wren - 1 North of Tupelo Field Hermit Thrush - 3 or 4 American Robin - 20-30 House Finch - 4-6 American Goldfinch - 2 Evodia Field feeders Chipping Sparrow - 8-10 Dark-eyed Junco - 8-10 (one with white wing bars at Sparrow Rock) White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Song Sparrow - 3-5 Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Evodia Field, Upper Lobe) Eastern Towhee - 1 male Shakespeare Garden Red-winged Blackbird - 6-8 Common Grackle - 20-30 Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" on the Point Pine Warbler - 3 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Happy Easter, Passover, and Ramadan Deb Allen Respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz - 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/ --
