Central Park NYC Sunday November 18, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Northern Saw-whet Owl and Barred Owl (titmice and crows very helpful today), Yellow-rumped Warblers, American Woodcock, and American Tree Sparrow. Canada Goose - 52 Wood Duck - 3 females Turtle Pond Northern Shoveler - 21 Mallard - 55+ Bufflehead - 14 Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 4 (3 female Reservoir, male Turtle Pond) Ruddy Duck - 88 Reservoir Rock Pigeon - flock of 50+ in usual area west of Pinetum Mourning Dove - 8 American Woodcock - Sparrow Rock (Deb - 7:49AM) Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - around 100 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 7 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 2 flyovers seen from Shakespeare Garden Cooper's Hawk - 2 (hatch-year male Turtle Pond, adult male feeders) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 local birds Barred Owl - continues in Ramble (mobbed by 11-12 American Crows) Northern Saw-whet Owl - Ramble (mobbed by Titmice, etc.) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - SW Reservoir Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Mugger's Wood & Evodia Field feeders) Northern Flicker - male Evodia Field feeders Blue Jay - 10+ American Crow - raucous flock of 12 (see Barred Owl) Black-capped Chickadee - 7 Tufted Titmouse - around 20 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Pinetum & feeders) White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 Brown Creeper - Evodia Field on trunk spread with suet mix Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (SW Great Lawn and also Turtle Pond) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Ramble & Upper Lobe (Carine Mitchell) Hermit Thrush - 5 American Robin - 25 Northern Mockingbird - Sparrow Rock Cedar Waxwing - 8 Sparrow Rock House Finch - 9 Azalea Pond (in Sweetgum & Amur Cork) American Goldfinch - 10 Eastern Towhee - male Shakespeare Garden American Tree Sparrow - Sparrow Rock (Deb 7:45AM] Fox Sparrow - 3 (2 Mugger's Woods, 1 Shakespeare Garden) Song Sparrow - 3 (1 Pinetum (Vicki Seabrook), 2 Sparrow Rock) Swamp Sparrow - Sparrow Rock (Deb 7:45AM) White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - around 15 Common Grackle - southbound flock 1000-1500 birds (over Boathouse around 9:30AM) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Mugger's Woods near Gill Overlook Northern Cardinal - few -- After lunch Bob & I went to Pelham Bay Park where Bob spotted our highlight, a Great Horned Owl perched high up in the open. 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/[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/ --
