Central Park NYC Sunday, November 15, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Rusty Blackbird, Swainson's Thrush, Purple Finch and Fox Sparrow in Central Park and a continuing Cackling Goose at Randall's Island. Canada Goose - 17 Wood Duck - 5 Northern Shoveler - 170 Mallard - 80 Bufflehead - 9 Hooded Merganser - 2 Reservoir ruddy Duck - 25 Mourning Dove - 5 American Coot - 5 (Signe Hammer) Ring-billed Gull - around 200 Herring Gull - 120 Great Black-backed Gull - 36 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - 1 Upper Lobe Lawn close to Weather Station Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker 1 Ramble American Kestrel - male perched over SW corner Great Lawn (Deb) Blue Jay - 9 American Crow - 6 Black-capped Chickadee - 15 Tufted Titmouse - 60 Brown Creeper - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 Winter Wren - 1 Stone Arch Carolina Wren - 4 (2 pairs) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Swainson's Thrush - 1 NE Upper Lobe (late in season) Hermit Thrush - 3 American Robin - 20 Cedar Waxwing - 19 House Finch - 3 Purple Finch - 3 to 5 American Goldfinch - 15 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Pinetum Fox Sparrow - 2 (Evodia Field Feeders, Pinetum) Song Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field White-throated Sparrow - 75 Dark-eyed Junco - 25 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 females Rusty - Blackbird - 2 males Stone Arch Common Grackle - 75 Northern Cardinal - 7 -- The Cackling Goose continued at Randall's Island, seen flying over the northeast part of the island with 4 Canada Geese, also a flock of around 200 Brant with a lone Lesser Scaup in the Bronx Kill, and a Palm Warbler in the tide-flooded salt marsh near Field 42. -- 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/ --
