Central Park NYC Sunday March 3, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen m.ob.
Highlights on a beautiful, warm, spring-like morning: Wood Duck, Common Merganser, Pied-billed Grebe. Common Loon, Cooper's Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Eastern Towhee. Canada Goose - 150-200 Wood Duck - 1 male Lake near the Point Northern Shoveler - 160-170 Mallard - 10 Bufflehead - 18 Hooded Merganser - 9-10 Common Merganser - 2 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 3 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 southeast Reservoir Mourning Dove - 20-25 American Coot - 5 Herring and Ring-billed Gulls - around 30 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Common Loon - 1 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - 2 (Evodia Field, Turtle Pond) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 2-4 Brown Thrasher - 1 south side Turtle Pond (Caren Jahre) American Robin - 10-15 House Finch - 4 or 5, some singing White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Eastern Towhee - 1 male Shakespeare Garden (Kris Mirasola) Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 10-15 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- Other taxa: a Coyote appeared near the Turtle Pond island again this morning, spotted by Kris Mirasola. This is probably the animal we saw last week. -- On Friday evening, March 1st, @r2junot made a thermal video of a large owl, probably a Barred Owl, in Central Park, posted to twitter.com, a.k.a. X here: https://twitter.com/r2junot/status/1763801504257831170 -- 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/ --
