Central Park, NYC Sunday February 6 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Bald Eagle (2) including R7, a.k.a. "Rover,", Brown Creeper, Fox Sparrow. Canada Goose - around 300 Northern Shoveler - 35 Mallard - 5 Bufflehead - 7 or 8 Hooded Merganser - 6-8 Ruddy Duck - none Mourning dove - 15 American Coot - 8 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 200 (mostly Ring-billed) Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Cooper's Hawk - eating a sparrow at the feeders (Sandra Critelli after lunch) Bald Eagle - 2 (4th-winter R7 "Rover" flyover Reservoir 8:31am, 1st-winter flew west from Reservoir) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 adults Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 4 American Kestrel - near west 88th Street (Sandra Critelli after lunch) Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - flyover of 7 Brown Creeper - 2 (1 Boathouse, 1 Chez Armando - top of the Oven) American Robin - 40-50 flyover over in flocks heading SSW House Finch - 28 American Goldfinch - 2 (Evodia Field feeders, later at Azalea Pond) Fox Sparrow - 3 Gill Overlook Dark-eyed Junco - 5 White-throated Sparrow - 50-75 Red-winged Blackbird - male Locust Grove Brown-headed Cowbird - male souuth of feeders Common Grackle - 10-15 Locust Grove Northern Cardinal - 5 Deb Allen
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