Central Park NYC Sunday April 21, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cold, partly sunny day: Common Loon, Blue-headed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Field, Fox and Swamp Sparrows, Louisiana Waterthrush, Black-and-white, Palm, and Pine Warblers. A Virginia Rail seen Saturday continued north of the Gapstow Bridge Mud Flat, and was seen by several of the birders from our group, among others, after lunch*. Bradley Kane reported a Prairie Warbler at Turtle Pond. Canada Goose - 14, eggs visible in one of the nests Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 6 Bufflehead - 8 Hooded Merganser - 2 females Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 2 females Reservoir Mourning Dove - 60-70 Virginia Rail - 1 north of Gapstow Bridge Mudflat (after lunch)* Herring Gull - 12 Common Loon - 3 Reservoir (Deb and Signe Hammer) Double-crested Cormorant - 8 Green Heron - 1 reported at Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Tupelo Field, Bow Bridge) Blue Jay - 9-12 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Laupot Bridge (Sandra Critelli), Maintenance Field) Winter Wren - Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli) Hermit Thrush - 8-10 American Robin - 50-60, some on eggs House Finch - 1 male Evodia Field American Goldfinch - 5 or 6 Chipping Sparrow - 25-30 Field Sparrow - 7 Fox Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli) White-throated Sparrow - 60-70 Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Upper Lobe (Edmund Berry), Turtle Pond) Eastern Towhee - 7 or 8 including 2 females Red-winged Blackbird - 5-7 Common Grackle - 10-15 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 at the Oven Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Laupot Bridge (Sandra Critelli) Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Belvedere Castle Pine Warbler - 1 female Weather Station Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- *For photos and video of the Virginia Rail and other Central Park bird reports see the Manhattan Bird Alert maintained by David Barrett on X/Twitter @BirdCentralPark -- Deb Allen -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --