Central Park NYC Saturday, November 14, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Turkey Vulture, Red-shouldered Hawk, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin, Fox Sparrow. Canada Goose - 2 dozen Wood Duck - 8 (5 male, 3 female) Northern Shoveler - around 250 Mallard - 40 American Black Duck - 1 Reservoir American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid - 2 Reservoir Bufflehead - 8 Ruddy Duck - around 45 Mourning Dove - 3 American Coot - 5 Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - around 100 Great Black-backed Gull - 10 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Turkey Vulture - 7 migrants Cooper's Hawk - 2 flyovers Maintenance Field Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 migrants Red-tailed Hawk - 2 or 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - male & female at Evodia Field feeders Northern Flicker - 4 Blue Jay - a dozen Black-capped Chickadee - 15 Tufted Titmouse - 30 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1 Pinetum (Sandra Critelli), 1 Belvedere Castle) White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Brown Creeper - 1 near feeders (Bob - early) Carolina Wren - 2 north end of Maintenance Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Hermit Thrush - 4 or 5 American Robin - 125 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Cedar Hill (Bob & Deb - early) Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 5 House Finch - 2 Pinetum Purple Finch - 3 Pine Siskin - 10 American Goldfinch - 12 Fox Sparrow - 2 north end of Maintenance Field White-throated Sparrow - 180 Dark-eyed Junco - 20 Red-winged Blackbird - 1 female (Oven) plus flyover flock of 40 migrants Brown-headed Cowbird - flyover flock of around 20 migrants Common Grackle - flyover flock of around 75 migrants Northern Cardinal - 5 -- Bob and I went to Randall's Island for the Cackling Goose found by Ethan Goodman yesterday, and refound by Dimitriy Aronov early this morning. It was still in the Bronx Kill (between Bronx & NY Counties) swimming east near the small salt marsh where Nelson's and Saltmarsh Sparrows are often reported when we left at 1pm. Wishing everyone a Happy Diwali, 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/ --
