Central Park NYC - Reservoir & south Sunday Dec. 11, 2016 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Some ice on Turtle Pond and the Lake this morning with snow flurries after lunch. Highlights: female Rusty Blackbird, Common Yellowthroat, Fox Sparrows, Pied-billed Grebe, Northern Pintail, Great Blue Heron (2). Canada Goose - around 85 Reservoir plus skeins overhead (around 50 birds in one of them) Wood Duck - male at the Pond American Black Duck - 3 (Turtle Pond & the Pond) Mallard - at least 50 - Reservoir, others on the Lake and the Pond Northern Shoveler - 24 (2 Turtle Pond, 4 Reservoir, 18 Lake) Northern Pintail - immature male at the Pond Bufflehead - 3 males & 2 females Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 3 (male & 2 females) just south of Upper Lobe Ruddy Duck - more than 100 Reservoir Pied-billed Grebe - west side of Reservoir Mourning Dove American Coot - 14 (13 Reservoir (Emilie Storrs), 1 at the Pond) Ring-billed, Herring, and Great Black-backed Gulls - Reservoir (not many) Great Blue Heron - 2 (one at the Pond, another reported at Turtle Pond by Melody Andres) Sharp-shinned Hawk - immature flyover Cooper's Hawk - 2 (immature at Azalea Pond, 2nd- or 3rd-year west side of Hallett) Red-tailed Hawk - perched & flying - probably 4 in total Red-bellied Woodpecker - many locations Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (Balancing Rock & Sparrow Rock) Downy Woodpecker - several locations Northern Flicker - Turtle Pond Blue Jay - everywhere American Crow - heard Black-capped Chickadee - 8 Tufted Titmouse - at least 30 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (feeders & Shakespeare Garden) White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 Brown Creeper - Boathouse (Sandra Critelli) Hermit Thrush - the Point American Robin - fewer than 50 Northern Mockingbird - eating berries in floral arrangements at Boathouse European Starling - around 200 near the Pond Cedar Waxwing - small flock of 7 or 8 in crab apples at Alexander Hamilton statue House Finch - at least 10 (half a dozen in Sweetgums at Upper Lobe, others at feeders) American Goldfinch - not many, some in Sweetgums Fox Sparrow - 7 Song Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - plentiful Northern Cardinal - residents Rusty Blackbird - female Laupot Bridge Common Grackle Matthew Mellor visiting from Great Britain reported a Common Yellowthroat today at the Pond after lunch. A Pine Siskin was reported at the Upper Lobe on Saturday by Ed Gaillard via twitter #birdcp Deb Allen -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
