Central Park NYC Sunday December 27, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Greater White-fronted Goose (first Central Park record), Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow. Greater White-fronted Goose - northeast Reservoir 8:43-8:55am* (Deb only) Canada Goose - 159 Northern Shoveler - 21 Mallard - 187 American Black Duck - 1 male Reservoir Bufflehead - 8 Hooded Merganser - 9 Ruddy Duck - 49 Mourning Dove - 1 Reservoir American Coot - 7 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 80 Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 3 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 immature Turtle Pond Island Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Pinetum Barred Owl - 1 continues Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 south side of Turtle Pond Downy Woodpecker - 1 Evodia Field feeders American Kestrel - 1 male Delacorte Theater (Sandra Critelli) Peregrine Falcon - adult female perched west of north gate house Reservoir (Deb-early)) Blue Jay - 15 American Crow - flyover Reservoir Black-capped Chickadee - 9 Tufted Titmouse - around 30 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Belvedere Castle White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Carolina Wren - 1 downslope from Weather Station SE of Castle Hermit Thrush - 2 (E79th Street Entrance (Bob-Early), Castle) American Robin - around 20 House Finch - 5 American Goldfinch - 1 Evodia Field feeders Fox Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field feeders (Barbara Green) White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Evodia Field feeders Northern Cardinal - 5 *Photos of Greater White-fronted Goose on the Resservoir: https://twitter.com/DAllenNYC/status/1343270987152957441/photo/1 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/ --
