Central Park NYC Sunday April 24, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walks starting from Turtle Pond 9am to around noon
Many birds left the park overnight Sat/Sun, but there were a few new arrivals. Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Riviera (thanks to a tweet from Timothy Bush) Red-tailed Hawk - circling over Upper Lobe Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Great Lawn, Mugger's Woods Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker - 2 Pinetum, others elsewhere Blue-headed Vireo - 2 singing Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock (Sandra Critelli) Tufted Titmouse - heard at various locations White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Iron Railing near Gill Overlook Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Mugger's Woods (Barbara Green) Hermit Thrush - 2 source of the Gill, 3 Summer House (Sandra Critelli), etc. Brown Thrasher - Summer House Ovenbird - the Point (Sandra Critelli) Northern Waterthrush - Triplet's Bridge Black-and-white Warbler - Maintenance Field, male at the Point (Sandra Critelli) Cape May Warbler - first-spring (first-cycle) female at the Oven (found by Jeffrey Ward) Northern Parula - heard path south of Tupelo Field, heard Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock Palm Warbler - many various locations especially the Point and Bow Bridge Pine Warbler - path south of Tupelo Field Yellow-rumped Warbler - many at many locations - Pineteum, Upper Lobe, Tupelo, the Point, just about everywhere Prairie Warbler - singing male Captain's Bench/Balancing Rock (found by Doug Kurz, Ben King, etc.) Eastern Towhee - not as many today Evodia Field, Mugger's Woods Chipping Sparrow - Pinetum, Sparrow Rock Field Sparrow - Tupelo Field (Deb before walk) Savannah Sparrow - Shakespeare Garden Song Sparrow - the Point Swamp Sparrow - 2 at the Point White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - male at the Pinetum Red-winged Blackbird - Riviera Brown-headed Cowbird - male Upper Lobe, pair at feeders House Finch American Goldfinch - Upper Lobe Also common resident birds. Signe Hammer reported Ruddy Duck(s) on the Reservoir. Sandra Critelli reported a Red-eyed Vireo at Strawberry Fields after the walk. Tom Walsh reports 2 young in the 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawk nest. Others reported Louisiana Waterthrush. 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/ --
