Central Park, NYC Sunday December 12, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Pine & Yellow-rumped Warblers, Cedar Waxwing, Fox Sparrow, Waterfowl & Raptors. Canada Goose - 25 Northern Shoveler - around 160 Gadwall - 2 at the Pool Mallard - around 100 American Black Duck - 1 male Reservoir Green-winged Teal - 1 female at the Pool Greater Scaup - 1 male at the Pool Hooded Merganser - 13 Common Merganser -1 female northbound flyover Reservoir Ruddy Duck - around 40 Mourning Dove - 4 American Coot - 7 Herring Gull - 35 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Great Blue Heron - 1 Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - 2 (immature Turtle Pond island, 1 adult male Maintenance Field (Sandra Critelli)) Red-tailed Hawk - 5-7 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Tupelo Field Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - at least 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 1 in the Ramble Blue Jay - 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Pinetum White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Evodia Field (feeders) Carolina Wren - 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Shakespeare Garden (Caren Jahre), Sparrow Rock) Hermit Thrush - 1 in crab apple Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 5 Cedar Waxwing - flock of 11 in and near crab apple Shakespeare Garden House Finch - 5 American Goldfinch - 7 Fox Sparrow - 2 Maintenance Field (Sandra Critelli) Dark-eyed Junco - 2 Maintenance Field (Sandra Critelli) White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Common Grackle - 5 Pine Warbler - 1 hatch-year female Pinetum (Barbara Green) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Pinetum (David Barrett) Northern Cardinal - 3-5 -- This morning a Peregrine Falcon was perched on a water tank on the roof of a building at 138th Street on the Bronx side of the Madison Avenue Bridge. -- Deb Allen
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