Central Park NYC Sunday, March 1, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cold and quiet day: Brown Thrasher, E. Towhee, Gulls, Pied-billed Grebe, American Coot. Canada Goose - 258 Northern Shoveler - 398 Mallard - 61 Bufflehead - 9 Hooded Merganser - 4 Ruddy Duck - 14 Mourning Dove - 4 American Coot - 1 north end Reservoir Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - around 45 Lesser Black-backed Gull - photographed by David Barrett* Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Reservoir Great Blue Heron - 1 or 2 immature bird(s) at Bow Bridge & Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (the Oven & Pinetum) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - male Pinetum (Sandra Critelli) Downy Woodpecker - 1 Evodia Field Feeders (Bob - early) Blue Jay - 4 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Evodia Field Feeders (Bob - early) American Robin - 9 Brown Thrasher - 1 Swampy Pin Oak House Finch - 8 American Goldfinch - 22 Song Sparrow - 1 singing a few notes north end Reservoir (Deb - early) White-throated Sparrow - 125-175 Dark-eyed Junco - 4 Cedar Hill (Bob - early) Eastern Towhee - male Maintenance Field (Tom Walsh) & earlier by Bob Red-winged Blackbird - 1 male at Evodia Field feeders (Bob - early) Common Grackle - 90-100 Norther Cardinal - 4 *I had seen a candidate for Lesser Black-backed Gull at the Reservoir early this morning, smaller than a close Greater Black-backed, but the legs looked a bit greenish, so glad to get David's report. 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/ --
