Central Park NYC Sunday April 10, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk from Turtle Pond at 9a.m. until around noon.
Bufflehead - male Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult west side of Lake near Balcony Bridge (Bob & Deb after walk) Double-crested Cormorant - 4 flyovers heading north Maintenance Field Turkey Vulture - flyover seen from Laupot Bridge (spotted by Tom Walsh) Bald Eagle - adult or 4th-year heading west seen from Shakespeare Garden Red-tailed Hawk - circling around over the Beresford and Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans) Mourning Dove - several locations Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Pinetum, Shakespeare Garden, Azalea Pond, 2 Turtle Pond incl. female with a black cap SE corner* Northern Flicker - male Pinetum & west side of Pinetum, male Locust Grove, Turtle Pond, 3 Maintenance Field Eastern Phoebe - west side Great Lawn, Turtle Pond Blue Jay - many, one with nesting material at Pinetum Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - Great Lawn, 2 Azalea Pond Tufted Titmouse - feeders, pair Laupot Bridge White-breasted Nuthatch - several locations Brown Creeper - near Boathouse Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 females SE Turtle Pond (Bob before walk) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - male Shakespeare Garden, Oven, also SE Turtle Pond (Bob before walk) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Oven (male with black eyebrow just coming in) Hermit Thrush - 2 south side Turtle Pond Gray Catbird - Evodia Field (wintered) Northern Mockingbird - the Point (Karen Evans) Brown Thrasher - south side Turtle Pond (James) Pine Warbler - male Pinetum (3 on the ground earlier at around 8:15), male singing Shakespeare Garden Eastern Towhee - male Maintenance Field Chipping Sparrow - 2 Pinetum Song Sparrow - Locust Grove & before the walk at Upper Lobe & Pinetum Dark-eyed Junco - Pinetum Red-winged Blackbird - male singing at feeders, male flyover Maintenance Field Rusty Blackbird - male in spring plumage Upper Lobe (Bob & Deb after walk) Brown-headed Cowbird - male Laupot Bridge House Finch American Goldfinch - Turtle Pond, feeders Sandra Critelli reported 2 Eastern Towhees near the Boathouse, an American Coot at the 59th Street Pond, & that the Canada Goose pair near Gapstow Bridge has five eggs in the nest. The Bald Eagle flyover was likely the same bird seen over the Point and tweeted by Adrian Burke (9:58AM), or seen over the Oven and tweeted by Edward Gaillard (10:11AM). Or were there two? For those not on twitter (#birdcp) Ryan Zucker tweeted the Louisiana Waterthrush at the Pond (10:04AM) with another tweet later from Jordan Spindel. *According to Kilham 17% of female Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers have black, not red, crowns (12 of 69 nests studied over a 25-year period). Kilham, L. 1977. Nesting Behavior of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 2, p. 310-324. Wishing for more migrants for us all, Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
