Central Park NYC Monday April 10, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned night-Heron, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Gray Catbird, Field Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Swamp sparrow, Palm and Pine Warblers. Hooded Warbler reported by Wolfgang Demisch*.
Canada Goose - 10-15 Wood duck - 1 male Lake Mallard - 6-8 Mourning Dove - 15-20 Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 25-27 including northbound flyover flock of 17 Great Blue Heron - 1 west side of the Lake Black-crowned Night-Heron - Bow Bridge Island (a.k.a. Duck Island) Red-tailed Hawk - 4-6 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6-8 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 6-8 Blue Jay - 15-20 Black-capped Chickadee - 3-4 Tufted Titmouse - 15-20 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Turtle Pond Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6-8 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Ramble Carolina Wren - pair Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden (probably the bird that wintered) Northern Mockingbird - 1 Strawberry Fields Hermit Thrush - 3 American Robin - 20-25 House Finch - 6-8 American Goldfinch - 1 Evodia Field feeders Chipping Sparrow - 8-10 Field Sparrow - 6 Fox Sparrow - 1 Ramble Dark-eyed Junco - around 10 White-throated Sparrow - 25-35 Song Sparrow - 5 Swamp Sparrow - 2 shore of the Lake Eastern Towhee - 5 males Common Grackle - 25-30 Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Bow Bridge Pine Warbler - 1 male Turtle Pond Northern Cardinal - 4-6 -- *Wolfgang Demisch's report of the Hooded Warbler at the "Polish Rider statue" posted on Twitter at 8:14am on Monday here: https://twitter.com/netudiant/status/1645399824567615488 The Polish Statue is east of the east end of Turtle Pond and depicts the victor of the battle of Grunewald in 1410, the Polish king Wladyslaw Jagiello. For up-to-the-minute reports of New York County birds see @BirdCentralPark on Twitter maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
