Central Park NYC - Ramble to Reservoir Sunday March 5, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, Brown Creeper, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow, Eastern Towhee. Canada Goose - around 400 Wood Duck - 1 male with female Mallard Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 14 Gadwall - 4 Mallard - 35 Ring-necked Duck - 1 male Reservoir Bufflehead - 8 Hooded Merganser - 5 Ruddy Duck - 7 (a big change for the 165 last week) Mourning Dove - a dozen American Coot - 5 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 50, mostly Ring-billed Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Great Blue Heron - 1 adult Island near Bow Bridge Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover heading toward West 81st Street Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Great Horned Owl - continuing Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 male Pinetum Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Northern Flicker - 1 male Turtle Pond Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - flyover flock of 24 Black-capped Chickadee - 4 or 5 Tufted Titmouse - 25-35 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5-8 Brown Creeper - 1 Azalea Pond Carolina Wren - 1 at the Oven Hermit Thrush - 1 Maintenance Field (Edmund Berry) American Robin - 26 House Finch - 8-10 some singing Fox Sparrow - 1 Ramble (Edmund Berry) White-throated Sparrow - 35-45 Song Sparrow - 1 singing south end of Reservoir Eastern Towhee - 1 male Turtle Pond Dock Red-winged Blackbird - 1 males singing Turtle Pond Common Grackle - 10-15 Northern Cardinal - 4-6 -- Additional reports: a male Green-winged Teal visited the Reservoir Saturday ( ), and the male Redhead continued at the Pool Sunday ( (https://twitter.com/CarenJahre/status/1632143859135176704/photo/1 (https://twitter.com/lorifaithnyc/status/1632105684316614660/photo/1)) ), both with multiple observers. See @BirdCentralPark on Twitter for details on these and other NY County bird reports. -- Deb Allen -- Respect for the rights of others is peace - Benito Juarez -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
