Central Park NYC Tuesday, January 1, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PHD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Continuing Northern Saw-whet & Great Horned Owls, Peregrine Falcons, & Pied-billed Grebe. Canada Goose - around 300 Reservoir, others on the Lake* Northern Shoveler - 16+ (15 Reservoir, 1 Turtle Pond, others on the Lake) Gadwall - pair Reservoir Mallard - 35+ (25 Turtle Pond, 10, Reservoir, others on the Lake) Bufflehead - 31 Reservoir (high count) Hooded Merganser - 4 Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 101 Reservoir Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 5 American Coot - 6 Reservoir Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - Reservoir 350+ Great Black-backed Gull - 28 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - Harlem Meer Cooper's Hawk - at least 4 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 Great Horned Owl - continued Northern Saw-whet Owl - 2 continued at the North end Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - female at feeders Northern Flicker - Evodia Field Peregrine Falcon - pair perched & flying at El Dorado Blue Jay - 3 or 4 in most locations American Crow - 2 over Great Lawn Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Evodia Field feeders Tufted Titmouse - at least 30 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Shakespeare Garden (Alexi Kalogerakis) White-breasted Nuthatch - 7 Carolina Wren - west side of Azalea Pond American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Upper Lobe Lawn) Northern Mockingbird - North Meadow Rec. Center Cedar Waxwing - flock of at least 10 over Great Lawn House Finch - male Evodia Field feeders American Goldfinch - 15 Evodia Field Eastern Towhee - at least 3 (pair Maintenance Field, heard Shakespeare Garden) White-throated Sparrow - many Common Grackle - a few at the feeders Northern Cardinal - 8 *A Cackling Goose was recently reported at the Reservoir, but we did not see anything resembling a Cackling Goose in the Canada Goose flock. Several birders, including Alison Schondorf and Cathy Drake, told us about a Wood Duck on the east side of the Reservoir. 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/ --
