Central Park NYC Sunday April 2, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Canada Goose - 50+ Reservoir Gadwall - 4 Reservoir Mallard - at least 40 Reservoir Northern Shoveler - at least 54 (47 Reservoir, 7 Turtle Pond, others on the Lake) Bufflehead - 10 Reservoir Hooded Merganser - pair Reservoir Ruddy Duck - at least 14 Reservoir Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Reservoir Red-necked Grebe - Reservoir (probably the bird rehabbed by WBF) Mourning Dove - various locations - signs of nest-building (RDC) American Coot - 5 Reservoir Herring Gull - around 30 Reservoir & flyovers Great Black-backed Gull -at least 10 Reservoir & flyovers Common Loon - 2 Reservoir (north end (DA) & south end (Jeff Ward) before walk - north end bird also seen on walk Double-crested Cormorant - a least 4 (1 Reservoir, 4 Turtle Pond) Sharp-shinned Hawk - eating what looked like an American Robin Point/Oven (thanks to photographer Matthew) Red-tailed Hawk - probably 4 Red-headed Woodpecker - first-spring bird continues at the Dene (near E 68th Street) Red-bellied Woodpecker - several Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 (Pinetum, Turtle Pond, Upper Lobe, Tupelo Field, 2 Maintenance Field) Northern Flicker - one or two (Upper Lobe & Mugger's Woods) American Kestrel - over Turtle Pond (Jeff Ward) Eastern Phoebe - Great Lawn, Turtle Pond Blue Jay - various locations Common Raven - over Maintenance Field Black-capped Chickadee - several locations Tufted Titmouse - fewer than in March Red-breasted Nuthatch - Mugger's Wood (Karen Evans) White-breasted Nuthatch - (Pinetum (Carine Mitchell), Tupelo Field, Evodia Field, Top of Oven) Brown Creeper - top of Oven (Sandra Critelli), later spotted bathing at stream into Oven (Jeff Ward) Golden-crowned Kinglet - Oven Ruby-crowned Kinglet - at least 2 Holly near Gill Overlook (Noa Cruz) American Robin - around 50 Brown Thrasher - Maintenance Field (Jeff Ward) House Finch - male & female Evodia Field feeders American Goldfinch - at least 5 (feeders & near Gill Overlook) Yellow-rumped Warbler - east end of Turtle Pond Eastern Towhee - heard in hedge at Boathouse Fox Sparrow - at least 3 (2 Mugger's Woods, 1 Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli)) Song Sparrow - Pinetum (Dennis), 2 Reservoir, Great Lawn, Upper Lobe Swamp Sparrow - Upper Lobe (Jeff Ward) White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - flock of at least 12 Great Lawn/Locust Grove Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - feeders Common Grackle - at least 40 Deb Alperin reported a Pine Warbler at Tanner's Spring Mayra & Noa Cruz went down to the 59th Street pond while the rest of us were having lunch & found: Black-crowned Night-Heron, Northern Pintail, Palm Warbler, and Yellow Warbler. This is a very early Yellow Warbler, certainly the earliest arrival date for Central Park. Bob's Saturday walk (April 1st) featured a Hermit Thrush, male Tree Swallow, and 2 Common Ravens. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
