Spring signs

Forsythia bud -- photo by Rob Jett

Rebekah Creshkoff continues the countdown to spring:

3/16/12 -early morning: Forsythia is starting to bloom… I saw a Golden-crowned Kinglet — and even some purple azaleas!

It begins with a trickle

From this morning's eBirdsNYC: March 15: golden-crowned kinglets nr oven and nr cedar hill

Eastern phoebe maintenance meadow
Alice Deutsch
Golden-Crowned Kinglet -- Photo by LLOYD SPITALNIK -- www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com

Go for it!

Pine Warbler - Central Park - 4/8/09

Photo by LLOYD SPITALNIK - http://www. lloydspitalnikphotos.com

Two hours ago--at 7:25 a.m.

Pine Warbler, singing frequently and moving along path from Oven to Riviera. --Matthew Rymkiewicz

The Hunt is On and P.S.

Eastern Phoebe in Central Park - 4/10/08

Photo by Lloyd Spitalnik http://www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com

From my records of years past, for the first Phoebe of the Spring::

date --- who found it --- where

3/14/11 -- Sharon Berlan - Tupelo Meadow

3/10/10 -- Tom Fiore- North Woods, near Bloickhouse

3/13/09- Alan Margolies - Turtle Pond

3/12/08--Prospect Park birders

3/11/07 Ben Cacase -- at S. end of Reservoir

3/15/06 - Early Birders-Tupelo Meadow

3/17/05 - Tom Fiore - North Woods, just S. of Blockhouse

3/10/1909 -- Ludlow Griscom --across the street from the American Museum of Natural History where he headed the Ornithology Department

P.S. This just in at eBirdsnyc, at 10:43 a.m. 3/12/2012

Hello all,

This morning I saw two Eastern Phoebes in the Park. The first one was at Tupelo Meadow and the second one at the NW end of the Great Lawn. The bird at Tupelo appeared duller than the second, so I am pretty sure that it was not the same bird that had moved. At Maintenance Field there were about 10 Song Sparrows feeding on the grass.

good birding,

Anders Peltomaa

First Warbler of the Spring Migration !!!

In Central Park TODAY, Saturday, 3/10/12

at 12:53 pm

reported by
Pat Pollock:

North end of park, Meer, Nutter's Battery
Pine Warbler, very bright, in thickest conifer (fos)
(seen with Tracy Daytin) @ 10:48 am.
On Meer, Gadwalls, Ruddy Ducks & American Coots


Also Northern Flicker
Song Sparrows on Great Hill

at 2:43 pm

reported by Andrew Bergen

Winter Wren near large willow west side of Loch
Carolina Wren (pair) near large willow west side of Loch
Fox Sparrow on up slope towards Park Drive near wooden bridge east of Glenspan Arch
Immature Pine Warbler in conifer just west of Andrew Haswell Green bench
Song Sparrow on east side of island in Meer
Red Bellied Woodpecker in Loch near willow
White Breasted Nuthatch in Loch near willow

Thursday in the park with Murray

On Thursday the temperature rose to 70 degrees and....voila!......

SPRING!