[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC: Sun. Dec. 6, 2020 - Winter Raptors & Ducks (Monday: Western Tanager continues W22nd & 10th Ave.)
Central Park NYC Sunday December 6, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Winter Raptors and Ducks. See note below re: Western Tanager. Canada Goose - around 50 including flocks of southbound migrants Northern Shoveler - around 50 Mallard - around 100 American Black Duck - 1 Reservoir Bufflehead - 5 Hooded Merganser - 4 Ruddy Duck - around 70 Mourning Dove - 20 American Coot - 3 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 150 Cooper's Hawk - immature male Evodia Field Bald Eagle - second-year flyover Reservoir (others reported) Red-shouldered Hawk - first-cycle over east side seen from Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 including one pursuing the Red-shouldered Hawk Great Horned Owl - continued Barred Owl - continued at two locations in NY County Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 5 (all at Great Lawn) Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 10 mobbing Great Horned Owl Black-capped Chickadee - 7 Tufted Titmouse - 30 (fewer than last week) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Pinetum White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Winter Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - heard in Ramble American Robin - 10 House Finch - 10 American Goldfinch - 7 Fox Sparrow - 5 Song sparrow - 1 turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - 40 Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum) Red-winged Blackbird - 5 Northern Cardinal - 5 Note: The Western Tanager reported Sunday in Chelsea at Clement Clarke Moore Park is again being reported Monday at the same Tenth Avenue and West 22nd Street location. Thanks to the original finder for his ebird Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S77137552 and to @BirdCentralPark for the continued alerts. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC: Sun. Dec. 6, 2020 - Winter Raptors & Ducks (Monday: Western Tanager continues W22nd & 10th Ave.)
Central Park NYC Sunday December 6, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Winter Raptors and Ducks. See note below re: Western Tanager. Canada Goose - around 50 including flocks of southbound migrants Northern Shoveler - around 50 Mallard - around 100 American Black Duck - 1 Reservoir Bufflehead - 5 Hooded Merganser - 4 Ruddy Duck - around 70 Mourning Dove - 20 American Coot - 3 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 150 Cooper's Hawk - immature male Evodia Field Bald Eagle - second-year flyover Reservoir (others reported) Red-shouldered Hawk - first-cycle over east side seen from Turtle Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 including one pursuing the Red-shouldered Hawk Great Horned Owl - continued Barred Owl - continued at two locations in NY County Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 5 (all at Great Lawn) Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 10 mobbing Great Horned Owl Black-capped Chickadee - 7 Tufted Titmouse - 30 (fewer than last week) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Pinetum White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Winter Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - heard in Ramble American Robin - 10 House Finch - 10 American Goldfinch - 7 Fox Sparrow - 5 Song sparrow - 1 turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - 40 Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum) Red-winged Blackbird - 5 Northern Cardinal - 5 Note: The Western Tanager reported Sunday in Chelsea at Clement Clarke Moore Park is again being reported Monday at the same Tenth Avenue and West 22nd Street location. Thanks to the original finder for his ebird Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S77137552 and to @BirdCentralPark for the continued alerts. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
