Central Park NYC Thursday April 20, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, et al, on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Highlights: Yellow Warblers & Green Heron Canada Goose - Turtle Pond Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Gadwall - male Turtle Pond Mallard - 5+ Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Turtle Pond Great Egret - 2 Turtle Pond Green Heron - the Point near the Boathouse Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 throughout Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Point & elsewhere - David Barrett)) Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3 American Goldfinch - Pinetum, etc, some singing Louisiana Waterthrush - the Point Yellow-Warbler - 2 (Turtle Pond & the Point) Palm Warbler - 9 (5 Turtle Pond, 4 on the Point) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 13 (7 Turtle Pond, 6 on the Point) Eastern Towhee - 3 to 5 Chipping Sparrow - Sparrow Rock Field Sparrow - Sparrow Rock Song Sparrow - pair island at Bow Bridge Swamp Sparrow - 3 Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - more today Red-winged Blackbird - feeders Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 or 2 Common Grackle My apologies for the late report, an earlier post did not go through. Thanks to David Barrett for calling my attention to a Wild Turkey at the Loch reported on ebird this evening. Deb Allen For bird walk schedule see www.birdingbob.com. The next walk is Friday at 9am, meeting at the Conservatory Garden. -- 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/ --
