Central Park NYC Sunday April 23, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob., on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am
Highlights: Beautiful weather but slow birding with Orange-crowned Warbler & 5 other Wood Warbler species, Common Ravens overhead, and a cooperative Belted Kingfisher Canada Goose - 6 (4 Turtle Pond, 2 Lake) Mallard - small numbers Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - small groups in several locations American Coot - lone bird on the Lake near the Point/Oven Double-crested Cormorant - 4 Turtle Pond & flyovers Great Egret - 1 or 2 (fishing at Turtle Pond, Lake south of Oven) Green Heron - the Point Red-tailed Hawk - pair of adults cirling over west side Belted Kingfisher - female in Willow Oak at Turtle Pond dock Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Bow Bridge Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 2 Summer House Blue-headed Vireo - Riviera slope (Andrea Hessel) Blue Jay - residents Fish Crow - calling near the Point Common Raven - pair calling overhead near Bow Bridge Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - Tupelo Field Tufted Titmouse - Summer House Red-breasted Nuthatch - seen at feeders (reported by many, photo by Bradley Kane) White-breasted Nuthatch - Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 (Turtle Pond (Sharon Kravitz), 2 Shakespeare Garden, Riviera slope (Alison Rea)) Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3 between Tupelo Field and Gill Source American Robin - nesting House Finch - feeders (Suzanne Telsey) American Goldfinch - feeders & Upper Lobe Northern Waterthrush - singing at the Oven Orange-crowned Warbler - singing at Riviera (before walk), later at Bow Bridge (thanks to Doug Kurz) Northern Parula - Shakespeare Garden (Ally) Palm Warbler - 3 (1 Turtle Pond, 2 Point) Pine Warbler - 3 (first-spring female Turtle Pond, male & female Shakespeare Garden) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 (Shakespeare Garden (Carine Mitchell), Turtle Pond, Tupelo Field (Ally)) Eastern Towhee - heard 2 locations Swamp Sparrow - Oven White-throated Sparrow - numbers down Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - singing male at the Point Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 (2 males top of Point (Ally), male Turtle Pond) Common Grackle - residents Deb Allen For info on bird walks - www.birdingbob.com -- 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/ --
