Central Park, NYC - North End and Reservoir Friday March 29, 2024 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a sunny, blustery day: Wood Duck, Lesser Scaup, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-throated Loon, Common Loon (3), Ruby-and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Eastern Phoebe, Field and Swamp Sparrows. Canada Goose - 26 Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir Northern Shoveler - around 160 Mallard - around 20 Green-winged Teal - pair continues at the Pool Lesser Scaup - 1 Reservoir Bufflehead - 26 Hooded Merganser - 3 Red-breasted Merganser - 2 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 13 Mourning Dove - a dozen American Coot - 6 Herring Gull - around 30 Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Red-throated Loon - 1 Reservoir Common Loon - 3 (one in breeding plumage) Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 5 (Mary Kate Horbac) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover adult North Meadow Ballfields (twigs on Mus. of the City on NY again) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 2 Eastern Phoebe - 9 or 10 Blue Jay - 4 American Crow - flyover flock of 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 11 or 12 Carolina Wren - 2 Conservatory Garden Northern Mockingbird - 1 Conservatory Garden American Robin - 35-40 Field Sparrow - 2 Green Bench Dark-eyed Junco - 3 White-throated Sparrow - more than 50 Song Sparrow - 10 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Plant Nursery (Scott Brevda) Red-winged Blackbird - 7 Common Grackle - a dozen Northern Cardinal - 5 -- 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/ --
