Central Park NYC Friday November 6, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Nashville & Palm Warblers, American Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Virginia Rail, Eastern Phoebe, Field Sparrow, Common Loon. Canada Goose - 42 Northern Shoveler - 50-60 Mallard - 40+ Bufflehead - at least 10 Hooded Merganser - 5 Ruddy Duck - 15 Mourning Dove - 8 Virginia Rail - continued at Triplet's Bridge (Deb around 2:30pm)* American Coot - 1 Reservoir Ring-billed Gull - 2 flyovers Herring Gull - around 60 flyovers At least 300 gulls on the Reservoir by mid-day, mostly Ring-billed & Herring Great Black-backed Gull - 2 or 3 Reservoir Common Loon - 1 continuing first-cycle bird SE Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Reservoir Great Blue Heron - 1 Harlem Meer Island Cooper's Hawk - 2 (immature at the Loch, adult or 2nd-year N. of Pool) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (Triplet's Bridge & Pinetum) Downy Woodpecker - Great Hill Northern Flicker - 3 American Kestrel - 1 male North Meadow Ball Fields (Bob - early a.m.) Peregrine Falcon - 86th Street & Lexington Ave. (Bob - early) Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Wildflower Meadow, Lily Ponds) Blue-headed Vireo - Bridle path west of Reservoir (Deb) Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - flock of 8 perched on Central Park West Black-capped Chickadee - 10 Tufted Titmouse - 15 White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 Pinetum Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 Hermit Thrush - 3 American Robin - 20 Cedar Waxwing - 20 (Conservatory Garden & Compost) & migrating flocks House Finch - 5 Pine Siskin - 1 Compost American Goldfinch - 5 Eastern Towhee - 1 male Boulder north of the Pool Chipping Sparrow - 5 Field Sparrow - 1 Green Bench Song Sparrow - 5 White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Dark-eyed Junco - around 10 Nashville Warbler - 1 Compost Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Conservatory Garden Northern Cardinal - 6 -- *Many observers of the Virginia Rail at Triplet's Bridge both yesterday & today. Triplet's Bridge is a small wooden bridge west of Balcony Bridge. -- 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/ --
