Central Park NYC Sunday March 30, 2025 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Palm and Pine Warblers. In addition a Barn Owl was photographed near Delacorte Theater Saturday evening (3/29) and posted to Instagram. Delacorte Theater and Shakespeare Garden are currently under construction and inaccessible. Canada Goose - 50-75 Wood Duck - 1 male Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - 80-100 Gadwall - 13 Mallard - around 30 Bufflehead - 14 Hooded Merganser - 3 Merganser species - 2 (Common or Red-breasted) Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 14 Mourning Dove - around 30 American Coot - 6 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 150 Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Double-crested Cormorant - 8 Great Egret - 1 Lake near Bow Bridge Cooper's Hawk - 2 second-year (first cycle) birds (male Evodia Field, female Turtle Pond) Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 5 or 6 Eastern Phoebe - 15-20 Blue Jay - 8-10 American Crow - 3 Black-capped Chickadee - 8-10 Tufted Titmouse - 5 or 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 or 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 15-20 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 or 5 Brown Creeper - 3 or 4 Hermit Thrush - 3 or 4 American Robin - 40-50 House Finch - 1 male Evodia Field feeders (Caren Jahre) American Goldfinch - 6-8 Chipping Sparrow - 4 or 5 Fox Sparrow - 2 Ramble Dark-eyed Junco - 25-30 White-throated Sparrow - 20-25 Song Sparrow - 6 or 7 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Laupot Bridge Red-winged Blackbird - 2 or 3 Common Grackle - 10-15 Palm Warbler - 3 "Yellow" Pine Warbler - 1 male east side of Turtle Pond Northern Cardinal - 6 or 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/ --
