Central Park NYC Thursday, November 22, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cold & sunny Thanksgiving: Red-shouldered Hawk, Bald Eagle, Barred Owl, Purple Finches. Canada Goose - 76+ (12 Lake, 2 doz migrants in southbound "V", 40+ Reservoir) Wood Duck - 3 females Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - low numbers (2 Turtle Pond, a few others on the Lake) Mallard - 20 Lake Bufflehead - pair south side Reservoir Mourning Dove - 7 American Coot - 3 SW Reservoir Herring, Ring-billed & Great Black-backed Gulls(fewer than 40 Reservoir 8:30am) Cooper's Hawk - 1 first-cycle (immature) male west side of Great Lawn Red-shouldered Hawk - first-cycle flyover Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 3 local birds Bald Eagle - first-cycle transition to 2nd-cycle southbound east side Great Lawn (Deb & David Barrett) Barred Owl - continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker 2 (feeders & Shakespeare Garden) Blue Jay - 15 to 20 Black-capped Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 25-30 (10 at Evodia Field feeders this morning) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Pinetum & feeders) White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - SW Great Lawn Hermit Thrush - 4 American Robin - 20 in crab apples various locations Northern Mockingbird - Sparrow Rock Cedar Waxwing - at least 20 (flock of 20 Sparrow Rock, 5 Gill Overlook) House Finch - male at feeders Purple Finch - 4 (2 females near Upper Love, male & fem. Gill Overlook (Soumyajit)) American Goldfinch - 11-12 Fox Sparrow - 4 Ramble Song Sparrow - reported at Pinetum White-throated Sparrow - 75-100 Dark-eyed Junco - 20 Red-winged Blackbird - immature male perched above Winterdale Arch Common Grackle - 100+ (5 or 6 south of Azalea Pond, flock of around 100 E. of East Drive circa 75th Street) Northern Cardinal - 3 Happy Thanksgiving Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/ --
