April 27 - Central Park

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! My Thursday AMNH bird walk group gets to cheer for three things today. 1) It didn't rain! 2) The Ramble paths were finally open! 3) There were finally some birds around! Now the small print - it wasn't raining, but it was very gray and foggy so visibility was not good. And, yes there were more birds around than any day so far this spring, but because of the difficult visibility conditions many were frustratingly hard to identify as just silhouettes in the tops of the trees. There were lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers all through the Ramble. Mixed in were a variety of other birds. Unfortunately there was no sign of the Barred Owl from yesterday.

Canada Goose (6)
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant (8)
Great Egret (1, Turtle Pond)
Red-tailed Hawk (2)
Ring-billed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1)
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Yellow-throated Vireo (1, heard near Azalea Pond)
Blue-headed Vireo (8, there were at least 4 near Belvedere)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee (2)
Tufted Titmouse (3)
White-breasted Nuthatch (1, heard)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (3)
Hermit Thrush (4)
American Robin
Brown Thrasher (1, Maintenance Meadow)
European Starling
Northern Waterthrush (2, Swampy Pin Oak area; Upper Lobe)
Black-and-white Warbler (5)
Yellow Warbler (2, Upper Lobe; Turtle Pond)
Palm Warbler (2)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (50, everywhere)
Black-throated Green Warbler (2, Turtle Pond and east of Upper Lobe)
Eastern Towhee (1)
Swamp Sparrow (1, Azalea Pond)
White-throated Sparrow (16)
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Purple Finch (2, female types)
House Sparrow