Central Park NYC Sunday February 7, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk
Many thanks to Jeff Ward, Carine Mitchell, Karen Evans, Peter Haskel, Xander Vitarelli, Nell Semel, and Tom Ahlf for spotting so many of the birds on Sunday's walk. Canada Goose - many Reservoir Gadwall - 5 Reservoir American Black Duck - male Reservoir Mallard - many Reservoir Northern Shoveler - around 85 Reservoir Bufflehead - pair Reservoir Hooded Merganser - a few Reservoir Common Merganser - apparent female Reservoir Ruddy Duck - around 60 Reservoir Pied-billed Grebe - Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 4 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - Evodia Field (also 2 at Evodia field mixing it up with a Red-tailed Hawk before the walk) Ring-billed Gull - many Reservoir Herring Gull - Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - Reservoir Mourning Dove - 5, not including birds at the feeders Great Horned Owl - continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - several Northern Flicker - 3 Pinetum Blue Jay - several American Crow - 5 (Great Lawn & Reservoir) Black-capped Chickadee- 4 Tufted Titmouse - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Pinetum Hermit Thrush - Gill Overlook American Robin - more than 35 various locations Northern Mockingbird - Greywacke Arch Cedar Waxwing - 7 near Boathouse Eastern Towhee - male continues near Boathouse Fox Sparrow - 4 (1 Laupot Bridge, 3 Maintenance Field, plus 1 Bow Bridge before walk) Song Sparrow - near Boathouse Northern Cardinal - several Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 Locust Grove House Finch - several American Goldfinch - feeders & elsewhere Carl Howard reported a Brown Creeper at the feeders on Saturday (Feb. 6). Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --