Central Park NYC Saturday April 9, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Belted Kingfisher, Merlin, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 5 Species of Wood Warblers including Yellow-throated Warbler. Canada Goose - 8 Ramble & Turtle Pond (2 nests at the Reservoir so far) Wood Duck - 1 male on the Lake seen from the Oven Northern Shoveler - pair on the Lake at the Oven, others on the Reservoir Mallard - 5 Bufflehead - 9 Ruddy Duck - 11 Mourning Dove - 20-22 American Coot - 4 Herring Gull - around 20 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 5-6 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Balcony Bridge Osprey - flyover Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 Belted Kingfisher - 1 female Upper Lobe Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 20-25 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 15-20 Merlin - flyover eastbound over Great Lawn from Sparrow Rock (Deb-early) Eastern Phoebe - 5-10 Blue Jay - 5-7 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Oven Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4-7 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5-10 Brown Creeper - 4-5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 south end of Maintenance Field Brown Thrasher - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Hermit Thrush - 30-40 American Robin - 10-20 plus around 50 flyover northbound migrants (Bob-6:30am) House Finch - 4-6 American Goldfinch - 3-5 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Great Lawn (Sandra Critelli - after lunch) Field Sparrow - 1 Great Lawn (Sandra Critelli - after lunch) Fox Sparrow - 5-10 Dark-eyed Junco - 5-10 White-throated Sparrow - 15-25 Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Eastern Towhee - 1 male (Evodia feeders & the Oven (Liisi Fletcher)) Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 male Evodia Field feeders Common Grackle - 5-10 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 at the Oven Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" (1 Belvedere Castle, 1 Weather Station) Pine Warbler - 3 Ramble near Belvedere Castle Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (1 Upper Lobe (Sandra Critelli), 1 Humming Tombstone) Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 continued at the south end of the Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 5-7 including a female carrying nesting material -- Roger Pasquier reported a Rusty Blackbird in the Ramble. -- Wolfgang Demisch, @netudiant on twitter, reported two Red-breasted Mergansers at the north end of the Reservoir this morning. This and many other Central Park bird reports appeared on the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- Deb
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