Central Park NYC Saturday April 8, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the Boathouse at 7:30 & 9am
Highlights: 7 Black-crowned Night-Herons, Louisiana Waterthrush, Common Raven, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches. Mallard Northern Shoveler - 15 (Lake & Turtle Pond) Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Turtle Pond, others on the Lake Black-crowned Night Heron - 7 Turtle Pond (3 on island, 4 in willow on the north side) Cooper's Hawk - 2 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Red-belied Woodpecker - residents on territory Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3, all males Downy Woodpecker - residents on territory Northern Flicker - 10 to 15 American Kestrel - Maintenance Field Eastern Phoebe - 2 Blue Jay American Crow - 4 Common Raven- flying over Oven (before walk) Black-capped chickadee - 6 Tufted Titmouse - 10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Maintenance Field White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Brown Creeper - Pinetum Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Skakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (Tupelo Field & Upper Lobe) Hermit Thrush - Tupelo Field American Robin Northern Mockingbird - Maintenance Field American Goldfinch - 8 (feeders & stream between Azalea Pond & Oven) Louisiana Waterthrush - fenced-in area of Ramble (thanks to Andrew Rubenfeld) Chipping Sparrow - 4 feeders Fox Sparrow - 2 feeders Song Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - good numbers, many locations Dark-eyed Junco - 6 (1 feeders, 5 SW Great Lawn) Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - 5 Common Grackle Mayra & Noa Cruz reported a Brown-headed Cowbird pair at the Maintenance Field before the walk. Another birder reported 3 Common Ravens perched at the Reservoir. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
