Central Park, NYC Sunday, December 18, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Phd, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Raptors, Waterfowl & Sparrows. Reservoir birds early moring (Deb) and early afternoon (Signe Hammer). Canada Goose - 75-80 Wood Duck - continuing male with female Mallard - Reservoir Northern Shoveler - around a hundred Mallard - 10-15 Bufflehead - 8-10 Hooded Merganser - 8 Ruddy Duck - 4 Mourning Dove - a dozen American Coot - 6 or 7 Ring-billed Gull - a few flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 1 north end Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - flyover Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 3 or 4 Great Horned Owl - continuing Northern Saw-whet Owl - reported early in the morning Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2-4 (all males) American Kestrel - Sparrow Rock early morning Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 8 Black-capped Chickadee - 3-5 Tufted Titmouse - 60-80 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Pinetum White-breasted Nuthatch - 4-6 Carolina Wren - 2 Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden Northern Mockingbird - 1 Ramble Hermit Thrush - 1 reported Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 9-12 House Finch - 4 Fox Sparrow - 4 (David Barrett) Dark-eyed Junco - 5 White-throated Sparrow - 20-30 Eastern Towhee - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Common Grackle - flyover flock of 20 Northern Cardinal - 5 -- We looked for but didn't find the Barred Owl. -- Happy Hanukah, Deb Allen -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
