Central Park NYC - North end Friday April 19, 2024 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Osprey, Six Species of Wood Warblers including Black-and-white Warbler and both Waterthrushes, Sparrows including Chipping, Field, Savannah and Eastern Towhee, Blue-headed Vireo, Rusty Blackbird. Canada Goose - 21 Mallard - 6 Green-winged Teal - pair continued at the Pool Ruddy Duck - 1 male Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - a dozen Chimney Swift - flock of around 20 over the Meer Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - 10-12 Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Meer (after lunch) Great Egret - 6-8 flyovers, and 1 perched at the Meer Osprey - 2 Meer (after lunch) 1 catching a Brown Bullhead, the other carrying a tail Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Loch Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 male Grassy Knoll Northern Flicker - half-a-dozen Blue-headed Vireo - 4 (Dan Stevenson) Blue Jay - pair building a nest and a few others Tree Swallow - reported at the Meer by PhillippeSoriano Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6-8 Barn Swallow - reported at the Meer by Ruben Giron Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20 Brown Creeper - 1 Loch (Scott Brevda) Carolina Wren - heard Conservatory Garden Winter Wren - 3 Brown Thrasher - 1 Loch (Caren Jahre) Northern Mockingbird - 1 or 2 (Conservatory Garden and Plant Nursery) Hermit Thrush - 5 or 6 American Robin - 30-40 Chipping Sparrow - 10-12 Field Sparrow - 1 Grassy Knoll (Scott Brevda) Dark-eyed Junco - 1 or 2 Grassy Knoll White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Savannah Sparrow - 2 Grassy Knoll Song Sparrow - 4 or 5 Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Loch and Pool) Eastern Towhee - 3 or 4 Red-winged Blackbird - 10-12 including a couple of females Rusty Blackbird - 1 male in breeding plumage at the Pool (Caren Jahre) Common Grackle - 10-12 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool Northern Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool Black-and-white Warbler - 1 male at the Loch (Caren Jahre) Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" at the Meer (Dan Stevenson) Pine Warbler - 1 female Green Bench (Caren Jahre and Anindya Seng) Yellow-rumped Warbler - male at the Pool (Russell Boehner) Northern Cardinal - female on nest (Scott Brevda) -- The Crabapple Allees at the Conservatory Garden are open. -- 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/ --