Central Park NYC Friday April 1, 2022 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Pine & Palm Warblers, Louisiana Waterthrush, Black Vulture, Ring-necked Duck, uptick in numbers of Eastern Phoebes. Canada Goose - 17 Northern Shoveler - 4 at the Harlem Meer, around 130 at the Reservoir Gadwall - 10 Mallard - 30-35 Ring-necked Duck - 1 male Harlem Meer Bufflehead - 9 Hooded Merganser - 4 Ruddy Duck - 15 Mourning Dove - 8 American Coot - 4 Ring-billed Gull - 3 Harlem Meer Herring Gull - around 25 Great Black-backed Gull - 15 Double-crested Cormorant - 9 Great Egret - 1 Harlem Meer Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 Harlem Meer Island Black Vulture - 3 flying east together over Conservatory Garden (Betsy) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 or 3 including pair nesting on Cardinal Cooke Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2, others heard Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 5 Northern Flicker - 2 (Blockhouse & North Woods) American Kestrel - 1 westbound flyover plant nursery north end Eastern Phoebe - 15 Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 2 flyovers Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (the Pool & the Loch - Karl Bakeman) Cedar Waxwing - 14 (2 flocks) Brown Creeper - 1 Blockhouse (Betsy), another in the Ramble after lunch Hermit Thrush - 2 (1 Wildflower Meadow, 1 Mugger's Woods after lunch) American Robin - 30-40 Chipping Sparrow - 3 Wildflower Meadow (Scott) Field Sparrow - 1 Wildflower Meadow Fox Sparrow - Mugger's Woods after lunch Dark-eyed Junco - 18 White-throated Sparrow - around 30 Song Sparrow - 17 Swamp Sparrow - 1 along the Gill (after lunch) Red-winged Blackbird - several males singing (Meer & Pool) Common Grackle - 1 at the Pool Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 west end of the Loch (first reported early a.m. by @Above96th) Palm Warbler - 2 at the Pool (Karl Bakeman) Pine Warbler - 1 male at the Pool Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5 Deb Allen
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