Central Park NYC Sunday January 5, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Brown Thrasher, Great Blue Heron, Pied-billed Grebe, Peregrine Falcon. Canada Goose - 320-330 Northern Shoveler - 280-300 Mallard - 55 Bufflehead - 2 (male & female) Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 7 (4 at Turtle Pond) Ruddy Duck - 94 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Mourning Dove - 2 Evodia Field (above feeders) American Coot - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Ring-billed Gull - 3 Reservoir Herring Gull - 43 Great Black-backed Gull - 17 Great Blue Heron - 1 Upper Lobe Cooper's Hawk - 1 or 2 immature male(s) (Azalea Pond & Oven) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 3 at Evodia Field Peregrine Falcon - Reservoir (rept. from Ben Eisler at 10:34am - seen later by Louise Burns & Colman Rupp) Blue Jay - 4-6 White-breasted Nuthatch - north of Gill Source Carolina Wren - 2 Shakespeare Garden Brown Thrasher - Shakespeare Garden (Barbara Green) House Finch - 15-20 American Goldfinch - 2 or 3 (feeders & Azalea Pond) Fox Sparrow - 2 Willow Rock White-throated Sparrow - 100-200 Eastern Towhee - near Boathouse Cafe (Bob - early) Northern Cardinal - 4-6 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/ --