Central Park, NYC Sunday, January 26, 2025 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Short-billed, Lesser Black-backed, and Glaucous Gulls, Snow Goose, Common Merganser, Brown Creeper, Eastern Towhee. Snow Goose - 1 adult Reservoir Canada Goose - around 300 Wood Duck - 6 Northern Shoveler - 50-60 Mallard - 60-80 American Black Duck - 10 Hooded Merganser - 3 Common Merganser - 2 Reservoir (Dan Stevenson) Ruddy Duck - 2 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 30-40 American Coot - 2 Reservoir Short-billed Gull - seen by NJ birder Andy Egan on Reservoir before 8:30am Ring-billed Gull - 400-500 Herring Gull - 75-100 Lesser Black-backed Gull - reported at Reservoir at around 11am Glaucous Gull - 1 on ice east of fountain at Reservoir (found by Andy Egan) Great Black-backed Gull - 15-20 Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Boathouse Cooper's Hawk - 2 or 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Maintenance Field Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Blue Jay - 2 or 3 American Crow - flock of 34 Black-capped Chickadee - 8-10 Tufted Titmouse - 20-25 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 male continuing today at Azalea Pond White-breasted Nuthatch - 8-10 Brown Creeper - 1 west of Azalea Pond (Dan Stevenson) Carolina Wren - pair Azalea Pond American Robin - 9-11 House Finch - 3 Maintenance Field (Andrea Hessel) American Goldfinch - 4-6 (Paul Curtis) White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Eastern Towhee - 1 male west side of Shakespeare Garden (Val from Minnesota) Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5 -- Deb Allen -- (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/ --
