Central Park NYC Sunday, November 17, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Winter Wren, Fox Sparrow, Hooded Merganser, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl (North End)* Canada Goose - 115 Northern Shoveler - 35 Gadwall - 4 (2 pairs) Mallard - 34 Bufflehead - pair Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 5 (3 males, 2 females) Turtle Pond Ruddy Duck - 19 Mourning Dove - 3 or 4 Great Blue Heron - low flyover Turtle Pond Ring-billed Gull - 40 Herring Gull - 40 and flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 15 Cooper's Hawk - 2 (hatch-year male Azalea Pond & flyover) Red-tailed Hawk - adult over Sparrow Rock Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 or 6 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (male & female) Evodia Field feeders Northern Flicker - 3 Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - heard Mugger's Woods Winter Wren - 1 top of the Point Hermit Thrush - 3 American Robin - 50 Cedar Waxwing - 7 Sparrow Rock House Finch - around 30 American Goldfinch - 5-10 Fox Sparrow - 3 Song Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - 65 Eastern Towhee - 2 males (Maintenance Field & Ramble) Red-winged Blackbird - 5 Common Grackle - 1 flyover Northern Cardinal - 11 -- *Ruben Giron @RubenGi02391602 found and photographed a Great Horned Owl at the Loch at the north end of Central Park, reporting the find on the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark on twitter maintained by David Barrett. 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/ --
