Central Park NYC Sunday Jan. 1, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Boathouse at 10am
Highlights: Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Fox Sparrows, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Cooper's Hawks, Common Raven, and Hermit Thrush. Canada Goose - 200+ Reservoir American Black Duck - Reservoir Am. Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - male Reservoir Mallard - 40+ Reservoir Northern Shoveler - female Reservoir & flock Wagner Cove (Mark Siegeltuch) Bufflehead - 5 Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 4 (pair Reservoir, pair Bow Bridge (Noa Cruz)) Ruddy Duck - 200+ (200+ Reservoir, male Bow Bridge) Pied-billed Grebe - Reservoir American Coot - 7 Reservoir Ring-billed, Herring & Great Black-backed Gulls - Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - 2 (near Summer House & in stream at the Oven) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (2 Pine Hill, Locust Grove) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Pinetum Downy Woodpecker - residents Hairy Woodpecker - male Upper Lobe (Carine Mitchell) Northern Flicker - 2 Great Lawn Blue Jay - residents American Crow - flock of 18 several locations Common Raven - 1 low flyover Belvedere Castle (Bob before walk) Black-capped Chickadee - 8 Tufted Titmouse - outnumbered Black-capped Chickadees Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (Pinetum, Pine Hill & Shakespeare Garden (Tom Walsh)) White-breasted Nuthatch - outnumbered Red-breasted Nuthatches Brown Creeper - near Warbler Rock Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Maintenance Field (Bob before walk) Hermit Thrush - Pinetum (Deb before walk) American Robin - 15 Great Lawn House Finch - 3 American Goldfinch - Maintenance Field Eastern Towhee- female near Summer House Fox Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - flock at Bocci Ball courts (Karen Evans) Northern Cardinal - residents 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/ --
