Central Park, NYC Saturday February 12, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Wood Duck, Pine Warbler, Raptors and Gulls. Canada Goose - around 300 Wood Duck - male with female Mallard - Reservoir Northern Shoveler - around 50 Mallard - around 30 Bufflehead - 9 Hooded Merganser - 10 (3 at Turtle Pond) Ruddy Duck - 2 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 5-10 American Coot - 4 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 400 Iceland Gull - 2nd-winter north Reservoir (Deb & Karl Bakeman around 9am) Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 north Reservoir (reported by Anne Lazarus & Miriam Rakowski) Slaty-backed Gull - 3rd-winter rept'd n. Reservoir late morning (see @BirdCentralPark on twitter) Great Black-backed Gull - around 25 Cooper's Hawk - 2 or 3 (Ramble and Locust Grove) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Snowy Owl - harassed by 2 Peregrine Falcons on upper west side rooftop - late report to RDC Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4-6 Downy Woodpecker - 3-5 Peregrine Falcon - 2 Friday flying around east 80s, 2 today see Snowy Owl Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 3 Common Raven - heard east of Great Lawn (Deb - early) Brown Creeper - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Chez Armando (south of feeders)) Carolina Wren - 1 west of Belvedere Castle (Kris Mirasola) American Robin - 25-30 American Goldfinch - 2 Tupelo Field Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Shakespeare Garden White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Song Sparrow - 2 on Friday at 59th Street Pond (Bob) Red-winged Blackbird - 5 Common Grackle - 2 or 3 Pine Warbler - in pine west of Belvedere Castle (David Barrett) Northern Cardinal - 4-6 Deb Allen
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