Just like to add that the American Bittern found yesterday was by a female
birder named Liz Slote, on a bird walk with Paul Sweet from the American
Natural History Museum & first reported @NYCountybirders here:
https://twitter.com/NYCountybirders/status/1646901179148820483?t=vut0F93ydOoy7MT6B7q4wg&s=19
Amazing find by Liz, on a great bird walk with Paul!
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 7:05 PM Deborah Allen wrote:
> Central Park NYC
> Friday April 14, 2023
> OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
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> Highlights on a sweltering Friday: Rusty Blackbird, Black-and-white, Palm,
> Pine, and Yellow-rumped Warblers.
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> Canada Goose - 11
> Mallard - 10
> Mourning Dove - 8-10
> Herring Gull - a few flyovers
> Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers
> Red-tailed Hawk - 1 or 2 probably the pair nesting at the Museum of the
> City of NY
> Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
> Downy Woodpecker - 2 Loch
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Great Hill (Patty Pike and Paul Curtis)
> Northern Flicker - 5
> Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Children's Glade, Great Hill)
> Blue Jay - 5 or 6
> American Crow - 3 (disappointed not to find the Eurasian Eagle-Owl "Flaco"
> at the Loch)
> Fish Crow - 1 at the Loch
> Tufted Titmouse - 4
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 17
> Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Dan Stevenson)
> Brown Creeper - 1 Great Hill
> Carolina Wren - 1 singing at Conservatory Garden
> House Wren - heard at the Loch
> Gray Catbird - 1 Blockhouse
> Hermit Thrush - 20
> American Robin - 10-15
> American Goldfinch - 1 heard (David Barrett)
> Chipping Sparrow - 8
> Field Sparrow - 1 near Nutter's Battery (Caren Jahre)
> Dark-eyed Junco - 19
> White-throated Sparrow - 20-30
> Song Sparrow - 6
> Swamp Sparrow - 3
> Eastern Towhee - 2 (near Nutter's Battery (Scott Brevda), Blockhouse)
> Red-winged Blackbird - 6-8
> Rusty Blackbird - 1 female east end of the Loch
> Common Grackle - 8
> Black-and-Warbler - 1 or 2 adult males east end of the Loch (thanks to E.
> J. Bartolazo)
> Palm Warbler - 3
> Pine Warbler - 1 Grassy Knoll (Dan Stevenson)
> Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Grassy Knoll (Dad Stevenson)
> Northern Cardinal - 5
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> Miriam Rakowski reported a Turkey Vulture perched near the Blockhouse. In
> Central Park, we don't usually see these other than as flyovers.
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> Barrie Raik reported a Blue-headed Vireo near the Lily Ponds.
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> An American Bittern was reported at Laupot Bridge in the Ramble via
> @BirdCentralPark on Twitter.
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>
> Congratulations to Mary Beth Kooper for the Smith's Longspur she found at
> Randall's Island, a first for NY County.
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> Deb Allen
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