Central Park NYC Sunday December 25, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob on bird walk starting from the Boathouse Cafe at 10am.
Highlights - Cedar Hill to Reservoir: Red-breasted Nuthatches, Hermit Thrushes, Fox Sparrows, & American Wigeon. Canada Goose - 200+ Reservoir American Black Duck - 2 Reservoir American Wigeon - female Reservoir Mallard - at least 150 Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 22 Reservoir Bufflehead - 6 Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 6 Reservoir (before walk) Ruddy Duck - 180+ Reservoir Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Reservoir (before walk) Mourning Dove - residents American Coot - 5 Reservoir Ring-billed, Herring, & Great Black-backed Gulls - Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - immature at Oven Red-tailed Hawk - several (adult & immature) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Pinetum (Andrea Hessel, MD) Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker - male Cherry Hill (Karen Evans) Blue Jay - residents Common Raven - vocalizing near Summer House Black-capped Chickadee - 9 Tufted Titmouse - 23 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (2 Pinetum, 1 Evodia Field feeders) White-breasted Nuthatch - baker's dozen Brown Creeper - Sparrow Rock Hermit Thrush - 2 (Pinteum & Turtle Pond) American Robin - not many Northern Mockingbird - Cedar Hill (Karen Evans) Cedar Waxwing - 2 Great Lawn House Finch - male & female feeders American Goldfinch - feeders Fox Sparrow - 4 Maintenance Field White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - 4 (3 Cedar Hill, 1 Pinetum) Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged- Blackbird - adult male Cherry Hill Common Grackle - a few On Saturday, Dec. 24, Bob DeCandido, Carl Howard, and I paid a visit to the Pink-footed Goose on the Van Cortlandt Park parade ground then did a bit of after-dusk scouting for the Bronx CBC. We found three Eastern Screech-Owls (2 gray morph, 1 reddish-brown) in two locations in Van Cortlandt Park. Moving on to Pelham Bay Park we found a pair of Great Horned Owls. As to where exactly and how we found these owls - Who-hoo knows? 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/ --
