Central Park NYC Sunday April 13, 2025 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Black-crowned Night-Heron, Green Heron, Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Winter Wren, Brown Thrasher, Rusty Blackbird, Louisiana Waterthrush and Other Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - 23, some nesting Northern Shoveler - 6 Gadwall - 8 Mallard - around 25 Bufflehead - 14 Ruddy Duck - 22 Mourning Dove - 15-20 American Coot - 6 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 30 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 7 Green Heron - 1 adult Lake north of Bow Bridge (Scott Brevda) Great Egret - 2 (Lake and Turtle Pond) Great Blue Heron - 1 Lake (Mary Kate Horbac) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 8 or 9 Peregrine Falcon - 1 flyover Eastern Phoebe - 12-14 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 at the Gill (Ryan Serio) Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 3 Black-capped Chickadee - 8-10 Tufted Titmouse - 7 or 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 14-15 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6-8 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Evodia Field, Tupelo Field) Winter Wren - 1 Laupot Bridge (Edmund Berry) Brown Thrasher - 1 Swampy Pin Oak (first-of-season) Hermit Thrush - 12-14 American Robin - 25-30 Fox Sparrow - 2 Ramble White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Song Sparrow - 5 Red-winged Blackbird - 1 male Bow Bridge Rusty Blackbird - 1 at the Gill (Ryan Serio) Common Grackle - 10-15 Louisiana Waterthrush - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 reported at Evodia Field Palm Warbler - 5 or 6 "Yellow" Pine Warbler - 8-10 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 southwest corner of Great Lawn Northern Cardinal - 5 or 6 -- 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/ --