Central Park, NYC - North End Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD
Highlights: Red-shouldered Hawks & American Kestrel Canada Goose - 5 flyover flocks fewer than 100 birds ENE toward Hudson River Northern Shoveler - 10 Harlem Meer Mallard - 25-30 (Harlem Meer & the Pool) Hooded Merganser - 3 Harlem Meer Ruddy Duck - 7 Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - 3 Ring-billed Gull - around 10 Harlem Meer Herring Gull - flyovers Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 (flyover adult 8:45am N. Meadow Ball Fields, flyover juvenile 10:30am North Woods) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (Loch, North Woods, 110th Street) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (east & west sides of the Pool) Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - north side of the Pool American Kestrel - perched Central Park West & 103rd Street Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - flyover of 2 Tufted Titmouse - Children's Glade White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 at the Pool Brown Creeper - Fort Clinton Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Fort Clinton American Robin - around 20 feeding in Chinese Scholartree East Drive at 109th St. Northern Mockingbird - 2 (Harlem Meer & west side of Conservatory Garden) House Finch - 8 (Pool & west side of Harlem Meer) Song Sparrow - 7 White-throated Sparrow - 50 Red-winged Blackbird - flyover flock of 8 Common Grackle - flock of 100 Northern Cardinal - 6 Deb Allen www.birdingbob.com -- 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/ --