Central Park NYC Monday April 24, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob., on bird walk starting from Strawberry Fields at 9:00am, pre-walk birding starting at 8am.
Highlights: A slow day with Red-breasted Nuthatch, Field Sparrows, Palm & Yellow-rumped Warblers. Mallard - Lake & Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - nesting Shakespeare Garden, others at feeders Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - Lake Great Egret - Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - pair building a nest on the San Remo Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - Strawberry Fields Blue-headed Vireo - south side of Turtle Pond (Bruno Boni) Blue Jay - nesting at the Oven Crow - silent flyover Barn Swallow - 2 Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - feeders Red-breasted Nuthatch - feeders House Wren - Strawberry Fields Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - stream south of Azalea Pond American Robin - residents House Finch American Goldfinch - 10 total (Strawberry Fields, Ramble & Tupelo Field) Palm Warbler - the Point Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (Turtle Pond & south side of Turtle Pond) Eastern Towhee - female Strawberry Fields Chipping Sparrow - 4 Strawberry Fields Field Sparrow - 2 Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - fewer than on Sunday Northern Cardinal - residents Brown-headed Cowbird - pair south side of Turtle Pond In the Bronx at 6:30am this morning RDC observed an American Kestrel pair copulating at Rhinelander Ave. & White Plains Road (10462). Deb Allen For info on bird walks see www.birdingbob.com -- 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/ --
