Central Park NYC Friday April 14, 2023 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a sweltering Friday: Rusty Blackbird, Black-and-white, Palm, Pine, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Canada Goose - 11 Mallard - 10 Mourning Dove - 8-10 Herring Gull - a few flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers Red-tailed Hawk - 1 or 2 probably the pair nesting at the Museum of the City of NY Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Loch Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Great Hill (Patty Pike and Paul Curtis) Northern Flicker - 5 Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Children's Glade, Great Hill) Blue Jay - 5 or 6 American Crow - 3 (disappointed not to find the Eurasian Eagle-Owl "Flaco" at the Loch) Fish Crow - 1 at the Loch Tufted Titmouse - 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 17 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Dan Stevenson) Brown Creeper - 1 Great Hill Carolina Wren - 1 singing at Conservatory Garden House Wren - heard at the Loch Gray Catbird - 1 Blockhouse Hermit Thrush - 20 American Robin - 10-15 American Goldfinch - 1 heard (David Barrett) Chipping Sparrow - 8 Field Sparrow - 1 near Nutter's Battery (Caren Jahre) Dark-eyed Junco - 19 White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Song Sparrow - 6 Swamp Sparrow - 3 Eastern Towhee - 2 (near Nutter's Battery (Scott Brevda), Blockhouse) Red-winged Blackbird - 6-8 Rusty Blackbird - 1 female east end of the Loch Common Grackle - 8 Black-and-Warbler - 1 or 2 adult males east end of the Loch (thanks to E. J. Bartolazo) Palm Warbler - 3 Pine Warbler - 1 Grassy Knoll (Dan Stevenson) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Grassy Knoll (Dad Stevenson) Northern Cardinal - 5 -- Miriam Rakowski reported a Turkey Vulture perched near the Blockhouse. In Central Park, we don't usually see these other than as flyovers. -- Barrie Raik reported a Blue-headed Vireo near the Lily Ponds. -- An American Bittern was reported at Laupot Bridge in the Ramble via @BirdCentralPark on Twitter. -- Congratulations to Mary Beth Kooper for the Smith's Longspur she found at Randall's Island, a first for NY County. -- 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/ --
