Central Park NYC Saturday April 20, 2024 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Lesser Scaup, Hooded and Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Loon, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Five Species of Wood Warblers, Blue-headed Vireo, Fox Sparrow. Canada Goose - 7 Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - early) Northern Shoveler - 2 males Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 4 Lesser Scaup - 3 Bufflehead - 5 Hooded Merganser - 2 females Reservoir Red-breasted Merganser - 1 Reservoir (David Barrett) Mourning Dove - 50-60 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 male Belvedere Castle (first-of-season) Ring-billed Gull - 1 Reservoir Herring Gull - around 20 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Common Loon - 1 in near-breeding plumage Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 6 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 or 7 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 female tupelo Field Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 4 or 5 Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 8-10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 40-50 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 east side of Belvedere Castle Cedar Waxwing - 2 Maintenance Field House Wren - 1 Belvedere Castle (Anindya Seng) Brown Thrasher - 3 (Kris Mirasola) Hermit Thrush - 6-8 American Robin - 50-60 House Finch - 2 or 3 American Goldfinch - 1 Evodia Field feeders Chipping Sparrow - 20-30 Fox Sparrow - Tanner's Spring (Sandra Critelli, Karen Evans, Dan Stevenson) White-throated Sparrow - 60-70 Eastern Towhee - 6 or 7 Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6 Common Grackle - 20-25 Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 or 3 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle, Tupelo Field) Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Belvedere Castle Pine Warbler - 2 (male Shakespeare Garden, female Tupelo Field) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 or 5 Northern Cardinal - 6 or 7 -- 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/ --
