Central Park NYC Friday March 17, 2023 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Wood Duck, Cooper's Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, Eastern Phoebe, Brown Creeper, Fox Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco. Reported: American Woodcock (at the Oven) & Pine Warbler (at the Evodia Field Feeders). Note: work at the south end of the Conservatory Garden continues on the perimeter path.
Canada Goose - 300+ including northbound flyover V of 80-100 Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 26 Mallard - around 20 Bufflehead - 7 Hooded Merganser - 10 Ruddy Duck - 22 Mourning Dove - around a dozen American Coot - 5 Ring-billed Gull - 3 at the Meer, others at the Reservoir Herring Gull - small numbers Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 8 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flyover Harlem Meer Cooper's Hawk - adult male dining on Song Sparrow Evodia Field Feeders (Paul Curtis) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Great Horned Owl - 1 continues (Paul Curtis) Eurasian Eagle-Owl - 1 (non-countable zoo escape "Flaco") continues Belted Kingfisher - 1 young male Harlem Meer Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 including one making a hole near the North End compost Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Conservatory Garden (Scott Brevda) Eastern Phoebe - 2 at the Pool Blue Jay - 5-6 American Crow - 10 Black-capped Chickadee - 8 Tufted Titmouse - 25-30 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5-6 Brown Creeper - 1 Evodia Field (Caren Jahre) Northern Mockingbird - 2 (Conservatory Garden & Compost) American Robin - 30-40 House Finch - Evodia Field feeders American Goldfinch - Evodia Field feeders Fox Sparrow - 1 Compost (Scott Brevda) Dark-eyed Junco - 6 White-throated Sparrow - around 20 Song Sparrow - 14 Swamp Sparrow - 2 (1 Harlem Meer, 1 Oven) Red-winged Blackbird - 9 (1 female) Northern Cardinal - 5-6 Deb Allen -- Respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz. (Respect for the rights of others is peace). --Benito Juarez -- 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/ --
