Central Park NYC Sunday March 13, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk:
Nice to hear Fox and Song Sparrows singing today. Northern Shoveler - around 100 SW Reservoir Ruddy Ducks - small flock SW Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - Reservoir (Carine Mitchell) Red-tailed Hawk - building on Central Park West Great Black-backed Gull - Reservoir Red-bellied Woodpecker - Maintenance Field Downy Woodpecker - Feeders, The Riviera, Upper Lobe, Locust Grove Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Mugger's Woods, The Riviers (Sandra Critelli) Northern Flicker - Maintenance Field Black-capped Chickadee - Feeders, Locust Grove Tufted Titmouse - Azalea Pond, Mugger's Woods White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 at feeders, Summer House Meadow, Mugger's Woods, Oven Field Sparrow - Maintenance Field Fox Sparrow - 2 at feeders, Tupelo Field (Karen Evans), 3 Mugger's Woods, Upper Lobe, Oven (Jeff Ward) Song Sparrow - feeders, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, 4 Maintenance Field, 3 Tupelo Field, etc. Dark-eyed Junco - 3 at feeders, Turtle Pond (K. Evans) Red-winged Blackbird - male at feeders (Jeff Ward) American Goldfinch - 7 at feeders -- Bob DeCandido found an Eastern Phoebe in Shakespeare Garden before the walk. Between 8 & 9 am this morning I circled the Reservoir finding: Canada Goose - very few Mallard - around 40 Northern Shoveler - 52 (more than 100 later on bird walk) Bufflehead - 16 Hooded Merganser - 5 Red-breasted Merganser - male Ruddy Duck - 41 Double-crested Cormorant - 13 American Coot - 2 Ring-billed Gull - few Herring Gull - few Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Song Sparrow - singing at NE corner --- Roman Brewka reported an American Woodcock at the Tupelo Field this morning. Emilie Storrs reported a Pied-billed Grebe at the Reservoir. Sandra Critelli & Jeff Ward reported a Song Sparrow and Gray Catbird at Bryant Park. They also saw both American Woodcocks, but someone flushed one of them, and it hasn't been relocated as of 5pm. Sandra also reported a Great Blue Heron at the Pond in the SE corner of Central Park. -- Emilie Storrs reported around 20 Fox Sparrows in the Ramble on Saturday (3/12). Roman Brewka reported at more than 20 Fox Sparrows in the Ramble on Friday (3/11). Waiting for Warblers, Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
