Central & Riverside Parks, NYC Sunday, December 30, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Central Park: Northern Saw-whet Owl (2), Barred Owl, Great Horned Owl, Cooper's Hawk and other wintering birds. Between 7 & 7:20AM Bob & I watched a Barred Owl repeatedly flying from tree to tree in response to some rambunctious squirrels. Later on, the group watched a couple of American Crows mobbing the owl. The loud cawing attracted a Cooper's Hawk, which eventually chased away the crows, leaving the owl to sleep in peace. A male Evening Grosbeak continued in Riverside Park. Central Park: Canada Goose - 8 Northern Shoveler - 27 Lake Mallard - 75 (Lake & Turtle Pond) American Black Duck - male Turtle Pond Bufflehead - male Turtle Pond Mourning Dove - 16 (Evodia Field & Great Lawn) Great Blue Heron - 1 or 2 (Boathouse & Turtle Pond) Cooper's Hawk - 4 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 or 3 Great Horned Owl - continuing Barred Owl - continuing (mobbed by American Crows) Northern Saw-whet Owl - 2 continuing in same location Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 or 6 Downy Woodpecker - Warbler Rock Blue Jay - 20 American Crow - 7 (2 mobbing Barred Owl, flock of 5 Great Lawn) Black-capped Chickadee - 4 (2 Upper Lobe, 1 Turtle Pond, 1 feeders) Tufted Titmouse - 40-50 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Evodia Field feeders White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 Brown Creeper - the Oven Winter Wren - Delacorte Theater American Robin - small numbers Gray Catbird - Shakespeare Garden Northern Mockingbird - Winterdale Arch Cedar Waxwing - flock of around 10 over Shakespeare Garden American Goldfinch - 6 Eastern Towhee - heard in two locations White-throated Sparrow - many Common Grackle - around 300 Noorthern Cardinal - 15 Riverside Park: The male Evening Grosbeak, first reported on the Christmas Count Dec. 16th, continued, while a Peregrine Falcon called from a perch outside the Riverside Church nest and later circled overhead. 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/ --
