Central Park - North End, NYC Friday April 7, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting at the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Highlights: Louisiana Waterthrush, Pine Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Turkey Vulture, Great Blue Herons, Northern Rough-winged Swallows. Wood Duck - male Meer (Tom Ahlf) Gadwall - 3 (2 males & female) Meer Ruddy Duck - 10 Meer Doule-crested Cormorant - 15 (10 flyovers) 5 at Meer Great Blue Heron - 2 flyovers (Brandon Keogh), 1 at Meer before walk Great Egret - Meer Turkey Vulture - flyover Cooper's Hawk - female SE Great Hill Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (one with jesses at Mt. Sinai before walk) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Green Bench Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 5-10 Eastern Phoebe - 10 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Meer Black-capped Chickadee - 3 or 4 Tufted Titmouse - many White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Brown Creeper - 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Blockhouse (Peter Haskel), Green Bench) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 along Meer Hermit Thrush - near Blockhouse American Robin House Finch - some singing Louisiana Waterthrush - west side of Loch Pine Warbler - 3 (2 Fort Clinton, 1 Green Bench before walk) Yellow-rumped Warbler - Meer (before walk) Song Sparrow - a few Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Loch & Meer) White-throated Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird - several males & females 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/ --
