Central Park NYC Sunday March 14, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Double-crested Cormorant, Turkey Vulture, Common Raven, Brown Creeper, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, northbound Canada Geese overhead, diminishing numbers of wintering waterfowl. Canada Goose - around 200 Northern Shoveler - 10 Mallard - 69 Bufflehead - 9 Hooded Merganser - 5 Ruddy Duck - 3 Mourning Dove - 7 American Coot - 8 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - 49 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Great Blue Heron - 2 (1 flyover (Bob - early),1 adult near Hernshead) Turkey Vulture - 1 flyover Turtle Pond (Adam Bagun) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (immature on Great Lawn, adult over Central Park West) Barred Owl - continued Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8 Downy Woodpecker - 8-10 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 4 Common Raven - 1 low flyover Azalea Pond Black-capped Chickadee - 15 Tufted Titmouse - 18 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4-5 Brown Creeper - 2 Azalea Pond (Andrea Hessel) Carolina Wren - heard Azalea Pond Hermit Thrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 10 Northern Mockingbird - 79th Street & 5th Ave. (Bob - early) House Finch - 6 American Goldfinch - 6 Fox Sparrow - 2 Mugger's Woods Song Sparrow - 4 Dark-eyed Junco - a dozen White-throated Sparrow - 35-40 Red-winged Blackbird - 2 males (Feeders & Maintenance Field) Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 males (Feeders (David Barrett), Maintenance Field) Common Grackle - 15 Northern Cardinal - 6 Several Eastern Phoebes were reported in the Ramble and at the North End earlier in the week - right on schedule. For details see the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark on twitter maintained by David Barrett. Sandra Critelli reported a Black-crowned Night-Heron in the Ramble Saturday, possibly the same bird as the first-of-season Black-crowned Night-Heron she reported at the Pond on February 26th. -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
