Central Park, NYC Saturday March 21, 2026 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a warm and breezy morning: Common and Red-breasted Mergansers, Osprey, Cooper's Hawk, Eastern Phoebe, Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Chipping and Fox Sparrows. Canada Goose - at least 60 Wood Duck - 3 males Mallard - around 25 Bufflehead - 10 Hooded Merganser - 1 male Reservoir Common Merganser - 4 Red-breasted Merganser - 6 Mourning Dove - 10-15 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 250, mostly Ring-billed Great Black-backed Gull - 8 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 (Reservoir and Lake) Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 west side of the Lake Osprey - 1 flyover (Sandra Critelli) Cooper's Hawk - 1 or 2 in the Ramble Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 or 6 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (the Point, Great Lawn) Eastern Phoebe - 1 Maintenance Field (Sam) Blue Jay - 8 Tufted Titmouse - 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Azalea Pond Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Shakespeare Garden Brown Creeper - 1 Mouth of the Gill American Robin - around 20 American Goldfinch - 9 (Sandra Critelli) Chipping Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli) Fox Sparrow - 1 Humming Tombstone (Sandra Critelli) White-throated Sparrow - 20-25 Song Sparrow - 1 Evodia field Red-winged Blackbird - 2 or 3 Common Grackle - 40-50 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Visit: http://LISTS.cornell.edu for more information Posting Address: [email protected] Archives: The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Sightings: Please submit your observations to eBird at http://www.ebird.org --
