Central Park NYC Sunday March 26, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Ring-necked Duck, Great Blue Heron, Eastern Phoebe, Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets. Canada Goose - 8 (all paired, no sign of the big over-wintering flock) Northern Shoveler - 30 Mallard - 55 Ring-necked Duck - 2 males Reservoir Bufflehead - 11 Hooded Merganser - 2 (male & female) northwest Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 20 Mourning Dove - 15-20 including pair building nest at Pinetum American Coot - 6 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 50 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 2 flyovers Great Blue Heron - flyover Reservoir seen from Pinetum (Ryan Serio) Cooper's Hawk - flyover Cedar Hill Red-tailed Hawk - 6 Great Horned Owl - 1 continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4-6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 males Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 2 (Turtle Pond, Evodia Field feeders) Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue Jay - 20-25 American Crow - heard Black-capped Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 20-30 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Belvedere Castle overlook Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 White-breasted Nuthatch - 8-10 Brown Creeper - 2 Laupot Bridge in the Ramble Carolina Wren - pair at Evodia Field feeders Northern Mockingbird - 1 (Turtle Pond Island & again at Belvedere Castle) American Robin - 60-80 Fox Sparrow - 3-4 Dark-eyed Junco - 5-10 White-throated Sparrow - 40-50 Song Sparrow - 6-8 Eastern Towhee - 1 male Belvedere Castle Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6 Common Grackle - 100-120 Northern Cardinal - 4-6 -- Deb Allen -- 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/ --
