Central Park NYC Sunday January 12, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: American Kestrel, Great Blue Heron, Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper. No Black-capped Chickadees or Tufted Titmice to report today. Canada Goose - 350-400 Northern Shoveler - around 350 Gadwall - 3 males Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - fewer than last week, but still numerous Bufflehead - 6 Hooded Merganser - 7 including a female & young male at Turtle Pond Ruddy Duck - 84 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 southwest Reservoir (Deb - early) Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 500 (mostly Herring Gulls) Great Black-backed Gull - 41 Great Blue Heron - 2 Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - 3 in various locations Ramble & Great Lawn Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (male & female) at Evodia Field feeders American Kestrel - male west side of Great Lawn (Sandra Critelli) Blue Jay - 2 Locust Grove White-breasted Nuthatch - Evodia Field (Andrew Miller) Brown Creeper - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Evodia Field) Carolina Wren - pair continues in Shakespeare Garden American Robin - near Boathouse Cafe Northern Mockingbird - Boathouse Cafe House Finch - a few at feeders and Azalea Pond American Goldfinch - 3 at Evodia Field feeders Fox Sparrow - heard in Ramble White-throated Sparrow - 60-100 Northern Cardinal - 5 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/ --
