Central Park NYC Sunday December 31, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Pied-billed Grebe, Peregrine Falcon, Brown Creeper, Ruby-and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Brown Thrasher. Canada Goose - 225-250 Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 400-500 Mallard - 125-175 American Black Duck - 2 Lake Bufflehead - 10 Hooded Merganser - 19 Ruddy Duck - around 90 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Mourning Dove - 40-50 American Coot - 4 Herring and Ring-billed Gulls - 65 Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover immature (Deb - early) Cooper's Hawk - 1 or 2 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 Great Lawn American Kestrel - 1 flyover Peregrine Falcon - 1 adult perched Central Park West at 90th Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 25-30 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Triplet's Bridge (Bob - early) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5 Brown Creeper - 1 Triplet's Bridge (Bob - early) Carolina Wren - pair Maintenance Field Brown Thrasher - 1 Great Lawn Northern Mockingbird - 1 Locust Grove American Robin - 20-30 White-throated Sparrow - 75-100 Eastern Towhee - 1 Shakespeare Garden Saturday 12/20 (Caren Jahre) Red-winged Blackbird - 1 Great Lawn in Sweet Gum Northern Cardinal - 9-12 -- @Gigpalileo reported 2 Fox Sparrows at Swampy Pin Oak in the Ramble on Sunday on Twitter/X. -- Andrew Block's Townsend's Warbler was reported again Sunday on Independence Avenue in Riverdale. The Townsend's has mostly been seen in a conifer adjacent to a driveway on private property. The Christmas Count MacGillivray's Warbler continued nearby, although there is currently no access to the best viewing spot in the parking lot of the Schervier Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. -- Deb Allen Happy New Year to All -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
