New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Saturday December 31, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.on bird walk starting at 10am.
Highlights: Rusty Blackbird, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and a small flock of very friendly Black-capped Chickadees that delighted us, including some first-time birders, by taking peanuts from our hands. Canada Goose - flyover skein of 20 Mallard - 6 Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull - flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 2 (1 immature, 1 subadult male) Red-tailed Hawk - adult Great Horned Owl - pair Red-bellied Woodpecker - several Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - immature Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker - male Fish Crow - flyover (before walk) Black-capped Chickadee - 15 Tufted Titmouse - 8 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4-5 White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Rock Garden (before walk) American Robin - 150 Northern Mockingbird House Finch - 5 American Goldfinch - 1 Song Sparrow - 3 Fox Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 20 Dark-eyed Junco - 30-40 Northern Cardinal - 8-10 Rusty Blackbird - Swale Strong evidence of a small owl around recently. Deb Allen -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
