March Targets

Here is what I may see in March. It is expected to be an average to above average season, so early migrating species seem likely. I've already seen a woodcock and Red-Winged Blackbirds a few weeks earlier than last year. I expect to add 5-10 species if not more this month.

Green means seen
Orange means seen later
Asterisk (*) means seen by the end of this month last year

Probable

Pine Warbler (migrants arrive)

Winter Wren (migrants start to arrive)

Golden-Crowned Kinglet (migrants start to arrive)

Eastern Phoebe (migrants start to arrive)*

Swamp Sparrow (migrants start to arrive)

Possible

Common Loon (annual)

Great Egret (migrants start to arrive)*

Great Blue Heron (occasional winterer, one at pond)

Black-Crowned Night Heron (migrants start to arrive)*
Osprey (migrants start to arrive)

Sharp-Shinned Hawk (some winter)

Any kind of owl besides Great Horned (annual)

Gray Catbird (scarce winterer, may start to migrate)
Brown Thrasher (scarce winterer, may start to migrate)*

Tree Swallow (migrants start to arrive)
Louisiana Waterthrush (early migrants arrive)
Palm Warbler (early migrants arrive)

Yellow-Rumped Warbler (early migrants)

Field Sparrow (early migrants)

Purple Finch (migrants?)*

Longshots

Northern Pintail (annual)

Bald Eagle (occasional flyovers)*

Red-Shouldered Hawk (a few winter around the city, early migrants)

Merlin (sometimes wanders into the park)

Iceland Gull (wintered at the park for the past few years. Will it show again?)

Red-Headed Woodpecker (Can appear in winter and spring)

Eastern Bluebird (one could turn up)
Prairie Warbler (early migrants?)

White-Crowned Sparrow (sometimes seen in winter)

Unexpected

Horned Grebe (One seen at Reservoir 3/6-9)

Glaucous Gull (One briefly seen at Reservoir 3/6)

Lesser Black-Backed Gull (One reported at Reservoir 3/5)
Belted Kingfisher (One seen at the Pond 3/25)
Eastern Bluebird (One seen at the north end of Central Park 3/25)