Central Park NYC Saturday April 16, 2016 OBS: R. DeCandido, D. Allen, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the boathouse at 7:30 am and from 9:00 am until noon.
Bufflehead - Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers Great Egret - flyover & seen at Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - pair San Remo flying around with twigs Mourning Dove - pair together at nest Shakespeare Garden (forgot to check on other nest), others else where Red-bellied Woodpecker - various locations Downy Woodpecker - incl. female drumming at Cedar Hill, pair at Castle, Shakespeare Garden, etc. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - near Humming Tombstone Northern Flicker - at least 14 in total - flyovers Maintenance field, Humming Tombstone, 2 males Azalea Pond White-eyed Vireo - singing at Maintenance Field Black-capped Chickadee - feeders and Azalea Pond Tufted Titmouse - Laupot Bridge, Summer House White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Stone Arch Ruby-crowned Kinglet - many locations Hermit Thrush - various locations including 2 at Stone Arch (thanks Andrea Hessel) Gray Catbird - Gill Source Palm Warbler - Weather Station - spotted by Will Papp Pine Warbler - 2 north of Tupelo Field Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Turtle Pond, adult male Indian Cave Eastern Towhee - Maintenance Field, Turtle Pond, Humming Tombstone, Mugger's Woods, etc. Field Sparrow - very small pond Summer House Meadow/Swampy Pin Oak Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow - Oven Swamp Sparrow - Gill (Peter Haskel, Noa & Mayra Cruz), Oven (best seen from the Point) Dark-eyed Junco - females Northern Cardinal - female at nest Red-winged Blackbird - feeders, etc. Brown-headed Cowbird - Maintenance Field & Feeders House Finch - male & female at feeders American Goldfinch - several at feeders incl. bright yellow & black males Before the walk Doug Kurz pointed out a singing male Pine Warbler at Maintenance Field (thanks Doug). Malcolm Morris and John Wittenberg reported Savannah Sparrow, Black-and-white Warbler and a flyover Osprey at the north end Saturday morning. Tweet of the Day: Chris Cooper reported a Louisiana Waterthrush at the source of the Gill/Azalea Pond at 8:38AM via twitter. I don't know of any reports of the Yellow-throated Warbler today. 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/ --
