Central Park NYC Sunday Nov. 6, 2016 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Highlights: Slow overall. Pied-billed Grebe at the Reservoir & American Kestrel near Conservatory Garden. Canada Goose - a dozen Reservoir Gadwall - pair Meer Mallard - 20+ Turtle Pond, others Reservoir & Meer Northern Shoveler - 25 (12 Turtle Pond, 2 Reservoir, 11 Meer) Bufflehead - 3 Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 5 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - fewer than 200 (Reservoir & Meer) Pied-billed Grebe - Reservoir (seen with Pat Pollock) Mourning Dove American Coot - 2 Reservoir Ring-billed, Herring, and Great Black-backed Gulls - fewer than 200 Reservoir, a few Ring-billed Gulls at the Meer Red-tailed Hawk - flyovers Reservoir & Conservatory Garden Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Pinetum & Meer (Sandra Critelli) Downy Woodpecker American Kestrel - male perched over compost area Peregrine Falcon - cacking at Red-tailed Hawk (David from Australia around 8am) Blue Jay American Crow - 3 together over Sparrow Rock Black-capped Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 13 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Pinetum White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Green Bench (Sandra Critelli) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 or 3 Pinetum Hermit Thrush - several American Robin Northern Mockingbird - 2 near Conservatory Garden Cedar Waxwing - 9 (8 Sparrow Rock (before walk), 1 Conservatory Garden) House Finch - near Conservatory Garden American Goldfinch - north of Reservoir Yellow-rumped Warbler - Pinetum Chipping Sparrow - Meer Song Sparrow - various locations White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - several locations Common Grackle - local flock Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 together Meer Reminder: Jeffrey M. Ward will lead tomorrow's walk at Strawberry Fields. 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/ --
