Central Park NYC Saturday March 29, 2025 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Eight Species of Sparrows, Palm and Pine Warblers. Canada Goose - 31 Wood Duck - 2 males (Reservoir and Turtle Pond) Northern Shoveler - 71 Gadwall - 12 Mallard - 26 Bufflehead - 13 Hooded Merganser - 4 Bufflehead - 13 Hooded Merganser - 4 Red-breasted Merganser - 2 males Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 19 Mourning Dove - 35-45 American Coot - 5 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 50 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Great Egret - 1 Upper Lobe Great Blue Heron - 1 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - 1 Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Northern Flicker - 8-10 Merlin - 1 Ramble Peregrine Falcon - 1 Turtle Pond Eastern Phoebe - 12-15 Blue Jay - 6-8 Common Raven - 1 Reservoir Black-capped Chickadee - 5-7 Tufted Titmouse - 6-8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 or 5 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 25-30 White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 or 4 Brown Creeper - 5 or 6 Hermit Thrush - 1 Ramble (Edmund Berry) American Robin - 20-25 American Goldfinch - 7 Chipping Sparrow - 5-10 Field Sparrow - 2 or 3 Fox Sparrow - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Dark-eyed Junco - 4 or 5 White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Turtle Pond (Edmund Berry) Song Sparrow - 10-12 Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Laupot Bridge, the Point) Red-winged Blackbird - 3 or 4 Rusty Blackbird - 2 Ramble Palm Warbler - 2 or 3 "Yellow" Pine Warbler - 6-8 Northern Cardinal - 5-7 -- 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/ --
