Date: 3/21/26 4:51 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC, Sat. March 21, 2026: Co. and Red-breasted Mergansers, Osprey, Chipping Sparrow
Central Park, NYC
Saturday March 21, 2026
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a warm and breezy morning: Common and Red-breasted Mergansers, Osprey, Cooper's Hawk, Eastern Phoebe, Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Chipping and Fox Sparrows.
Canada Goose - at least 60
Wood Duck - 3 males
Mallard - around 25
Bufflehead - 10
Hooded Merganser - 1 male Reservoir
Common Merganser - 4
Red-breasted Merganser - 6
Mourning Dove - 10-15
Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 250, mostly Ring-billed
Great Black-backed Gull - 8
Double-crested Cormorant - 2 (Reservoir and Lake)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 west side of the Lake
Osprey - 1 flyover (Sandra Critelli)
Cooper's Hawk - 1 or 2 in the Ramble
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 or 6
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (the Point, Great Lawn)
Eastern Phoebe - 1 Maintenance Field (Sam)
Blue Jay - 8
Tufted Titmouse - 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Azalea Pond
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Shakespeare Garden
Brown Creeper - 1 Mouth of the Gill
American Robin - around 20
American Goldfinch - 9 (Sandra Critelli)
Chipping Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli)
Fox Sparrow - 1 Humming Tombstone (Sandra Critelli)
White-throated Sparrow - 20-25
Song Sparrow - 1 Evodia field
Red-winged Blackbird - 2 or 3
Common Grackle - 40-50
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
