Central Park NYC Thursday April 13, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Wood Duck, Red-breasted Nuthatch, House Wren, Field Sparrow, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm and Pine Warblers. More Northern Flickers today, but a sharp drop in Tufted Titmouse numbers.
Canada Goose - 15-20 Wood Duck - 1 male Turtle Pond Mallard - 9-12 Mourning dove - 20-25 Herring Gull - 3 or 4 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 3 or 4 Red-tailed Hawk - 4-5 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5-7 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 10-12 Eastern Phoebe - 1 west side of Belvedere Castle Blue Jay - 8-12 Tufted Titmouse - 2 Tanner's Spring Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12-15 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 2 Maintenance Field House Wren - Maintenance Field Hermit Thrush - 6-8 American Robin - 20-25 House Finch - 3 Chipping Sparrow - 6-8 Field Sparrow - 1 Shakespeare Garden Dark-eyed Junco - 10-15 White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 3 Eastern Towhee - 2 males (Belvedere Castle, Tupelo Field) Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 male west of Belvedere Castle Common Grackle - 15-20 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 (Upper Lobe and Balcony Bridge) Palm Warbler - 3 "Yellow" Pine Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- The female Ring-necked Duck continued on the Conservatory Water as reported on Twitter with a photo by @soozenyc https://twitter.com/soozenyc/status/1646530849020542977/photo/1 For this and other up-to-the-minute bird reports from NY County see @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- 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/ --
