Central Park NYC Sunday April 17, 2016 OBS: R. DeCandido, D. Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting at 9am from Turtle Pond until around noon.
A bit slower today than Saturday, but many FOS sightings of birders. Canada Goose - Lake, Turtle Pond Wood Duck - flyover male at Castle (DA) and flyover male at the Point (Jeff Ward) Bufflehead - 7 Reservoir (DA before walk) Double-crested Cormorant - flyover - Turtle Pond, also more than a dozen Reservoir (DA before walk) Great Egret - 2 not getting along at Turtle Pond, 1 west side of Lake Red-tailed Hawk - pair Upper Lobe & San Remo Herring Gull - many circling on thermals over the Ramble today Great Black-backed Gull - a few on the Reservoir (DA) American Kestrel - flyover Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker - 3 Tupelo Field Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 females Humming Tombstone Northern Flicker - Tupelo Field, male Warbler Rock/Summer House area Blue Jay - nest (Xander Vitarelli) Northern Rough-winged Swallow- 2 Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - Azalea Pond Tufted Titmouse - singing various locations Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Humming Tombstone, the Point (Jeff Ward) Hermit Thrush - Humming Tombstone Gray Catbird - between Maintenance Field & Gill Source Brown Thrasher - singing & singing Maintenance Field Pine Warbler - 4 south side of Turtle Pond, 1 Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - Humming Tombstone (Karen Evans) Eastern Towhee - at least 5 Chipping Sparrow - feeders Dark-eyed Junco - the Point Red-winged Blackbird - feeders & Oven Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 males at Summer House House Finch - Tupelo Field American Goldfinch - feeders I inadvertently omitted Eastern Phoebe, which appeared at 6:15am at the Maintenance Field, from Saturday's list. Deb Allen Wolfgang Demisch reported a male Wood Duck at the Reservoir fountain at 8am. Karen Evans reported a Field sparrow at Bow Bridge at 12:31pm. Ryan Zucker reported a Winter Wren on the Point this morning. -- 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/ --
