Central Park NYC Friday March 24, 2023 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Ring-necked Duck, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Dark-eyed Junco, Rusty Blackbird.
Canada Goose - 23 Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 23 Mallard - 53 Ring-necked Duck - 1 female Reservoir Bufflehead - 9 Hooded Merganser - 3 Ruddy Duck - 11 Mourning Dove American Coot - 5 Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - 31 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 immature Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (immature Great Hill, adult 5th Ave. over nest)* Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Conservatory Garden Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 American Crow - 5 Black-capped Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 15-20 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Wildflower Meadow Brown Creeper - 1 Loch Carolina Wren - 1 singing Conservatory Garden American Robin - 40-50 Fox Sparrow - 1 Loch (Caren Jahre) Dark-eyed Junco - flock of 80 north of Sparrow Rock White-throated Sparrow - 25-30 Song Sparrow - 15 Red-winged Blackbird - 6 Rusty Blackbird - 1 male west end of the Pool Common Grackle - 8-10 -- *The Red-tailed Hawks which had been nesting on Cardinal Cooke have relocated two blocks south, and gardeners at the Conservatory Garden have been watching them moving some of the twigs from the old nest to the new one. -- The Eurasian Eagle-Owl "Flaco" formerly of the Central Park Zoo continued at the Loch, dining on a Norway Rat this morning. -- A Belted Kingfisher and Great Egret were reported at the Harlem Meer in the afternoon, and the park's Great Horned Owl was reported again this morning (see @BirdCentralPark on Twitter). -- Deb Allen Ramadam Mubarak Respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz. --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/ --
