Central Park NYC Monday December 3, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights - Barred Owls Continue, Pine Siskins, Golden-crowned Kinglets, Fox Sparrows. Canada Goose - around 30 (Lake & Turtle Pond) Wood Duck - 3 females Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - around 10 (Lake & Turtle Pond) Mallard - around 40 (Lake & turtle Pond) Hooded Merganser - 2 (male & female) Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 4 feeders Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - continues at Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 2 hatch-year, 1 adult (one of the HYs chasing squirrels Barred Owl - 2 continue Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Balcony Bridge Downy Woodpecker - 2 (feeders & Ramble) Blue Jay - around 15 American Crow - 16 over the Ramble chasing a Red-tailed Hawk Black-capped Chickadee - 3 feeders Tufted Titmouse - around 25 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Ramble & pines at Upper Lobe Lawn) American Robin - around 20 Ramble Gray Catbird - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance Field near building) Cedar Waxwing - around 25 (Amur Cork in Ramble) House Finch - 2 feeders Purple Finch - female in Ramble south of feeders, north of Oven Pine Siskin - 4 (1 feeders, 1 Upper Lobe, 2 Ramble) American Goldfinch - 15 (various locations) Eastern Towhee - female Strawberry Fields Fox Sparrow - 3 Rmable Song Sparrow - Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - 75 Dark-eyed Junco - 40 (Great Lawn, Maintenance Field, etc.) Common Grackle - around 40 Alexander Hamilton Statue w. of the Met (Bob-early) Northern Cardinal - 7 Oven 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/ --
