Central Park NYC Friday March 31, 2023 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Ring-necked Duck, Field & Savannah Sparrows, Rusty Blackbird.
Canada Goose - 14 Wood Duck - 1 male (Upper Lobe Lake (Scott Brevda), later at the Oven) Northern Shoveler - 47 Mallard - 36 Ring-necked Duck - 3 (pair Lake, female Conservatory Water) Bufflehead - 1 male Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 2 (young male, female) Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 10 Mourning Dove - 8 American Coot - 4 Ring-billed Gull 100+ (4 Harlem Meer, others on the Reservoir) Herring Gull - 65 Great Black-backed Gull - 15 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 (Reservoir & Lake) Black-crowned Night Heron - 2 Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Oak Bridge & the Point) Northern Flicker - 4 Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Wildflower Meadow Tufted Titmouse - 18-25 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Brown Creeper - 4 Hermit Thrush - 1 near East Blowdown (Scott Brevda) American Robin - 80-100 House Finch - 3 Field Sparrow - 2 Wildflower Meadow Dark-eyed Junco - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 20-25 Savannah Sparrow - 1 East Blowdown* Song Sparrow - 16 Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Harlem Meer, The Pool) Red-winged Blackbird - 7 Rusty Blackbird - 1 female west end of the Pool** Common Grackle - 5-10 Northern Cardinal - 4-6 -- Jean Shum reported an Osprey fishing at the Harlem Meer. The Osprey's opinion of the very low water level was not recorded. *Dawn Hannay, who we met on the Jughandle path told us about the Savannah Sparrow at the East Blowdown. She also mentioned some Fox Sparrows on the west side of the Jughandle path. **First reported Friday on twitter by @mitoGFP via @BirdCentralPark. A flyover Bald Eagle seen by Sandra Critelli was inadvertently omitted from Sunday's (3/26) report. -- 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/ --