Central Park (North End through Ramble), NYC Friday December 14, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Northern Saw-whet & Barred Owls, American Kestrels, Merlin, and Peregrine Falcon. Canada Goose - 200 Reservoir Wood Duck - 3 (1 male, 2 female) Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 40 Reservoir Mallard - 150 Reservoir (also some on the Harlem Meer) Bufflehead - 3 (1 male, 2 female) Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 4 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 75 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 4 Evodia Field feeders American Coot - 1 Reservoir Ring-billed Gull - 250 Reservir Herring Gull - 75 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 30 Reservoir Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Barred Owl - 2 Northern Saw-whet Owl - roosting in Pine Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - 1 at feeders American Kestrel 2 (perched male Green Bench, female eating a bird West Drive & NW Reservoir) Merlin - chasing American Robins west side of Conservatory Garden Peregrine Falcon - female flying across Great Lawn Blue Jay - around 12 American Crow - 6 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Tupelo Field Tufted Titmouse - 15 Carolina Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Hermit Thrush - 1 Green Bench American Robin - 75 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Conservatory Garden Cedar Waxwing - 12 NW Great Lawn House Finch - 5 feeders American Goldfinch - 6 feeders Fox Sparrow - 1 feeders White-throated Sparrow - 30 Ramble Common Grackle - flock of 20 Northern Cardinal - 6 Vicki Seabrook reported a Rusty Blackbird at the Loch near one of the rustic bridges at around 1:30PM via twitter. See @BirdCentralPark, maintained by David Barrett, for instant info on NY County birds. 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/ --
