Central Park NYC Sunday March 31, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a warm spring day: Lesser Scaup, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-throated and Common Loons, Great Blue and Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Egret, Eastern Phoebe, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, Fox and Swamp Sparrows. Canada Goose - 22 Wood Duck - 1 or 2 males (Reservoir & Turtle Pond) Northern Shoveler - 40 Gadwall - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 15 Lesser Scaup - 1 female Reservoir (Deb - early) Bufflehead - 30 Hooded Merganser - 4 or 5 females Red-breasted Merganser - 2 (adult and young males) Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 4 Mourning Dove - 20-25 American Coot - 5 Herring Gull - 20-25 Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Red-throated Loon - 1 north end Reservoir Common Loon - 1 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Great Blue Heron - 3 northbound flyovers (Bob - early) Great Egret - 1 west side of Lake Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 1 immature male near Boathouse Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 or 6 males Downy Woodpecker - 6-8 Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 American Kestrel - 1 northbound flyover Pinetum Eastern Phoebe - 4 or 5 Blue Jay - 5 or 6 American Crow - 2 flyovers Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 Northern Mockingbird - heard-only Hermit Thrush - 1 Evodia Field near feeders (Sandra Critelli) American Robin - 80-100 House Finch - 3 or 4 American Goldfinch - 1 Evodia Feeders Fox Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 60-80 Song Sparrow - 11 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Balcony Bridge (Bob - early) Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 20-25 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- On Saturday Dan Stevenson and Karen Evans saw an American Woodcock at Triplet's Bridge. Apologies for the late report. -- Happy Easter, Deb Allen -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
