The Bronx-Westchester CBC held December 26 found apreliminary 116 species. Two new species were added to this 93 year count; thePink-footed Goose and Cackling Goose remained for count day in Van CortlandtPark. This brings the cumulative total of the count to 230 species.
Other highlights: Redhead in Edith G Read Preserve in Rye 55 Wood Duck on Crestwood Lake, Yonkers A high count of 1200 White-winged Scoter off City Island 180 Common Mergansers on Sprain Ridge Reservoir in Yonkers Tied high count of 7 Black Vultures 2 Black-bellied Plover at Edgewater Point, Mamaroneck, 11thcount record Black-headed Gull at Five Island Park, 4th countrecord Iceland Gull in Rye Red-headed Woodpecker, Hommocks Rd, Larchmont A new high count of 9 Merlin New high count of 312 Fish Crow New high count of 12 Common Raven 130 Red-breasted Nuthatch, obliterating the old record of 33in 2012 Nashville Warbler and Chipping Sparrow in Twin Lakes Park,Eastchester And 4 Red Crossbills in Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye For the first time in 70 years the count missed Canvasback. Other misses included Black-crowned Night Heron, BrownThrasher and Yellow-rumped Warbler Michael Bochnik -- 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/ --
