Central Park NYC Sunday February 21, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights for the Ramble & Reservoir from 8am to noon, except as otherwise noted: Mute Swan, Common Loon, Turkey Vulture, Common Raven, Brown Creeper, Hermit Thrush, Brown Thrasher, Fox Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird. Canada Goose - around 250 Mute Swan - 1 northeast Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 5 Mallard - 14 Hooded Merganser - 3 Ruddy Duck - 3 Mourning Dove - 5 American Coot - 8 Ring-billed Gull - 61 Herring Gull - 38 Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Common Loon - first-winter east side of Reservoir at 90th 8am (Deb) Turkey Vulture - flyover Pinetum 11:13am Cooper's Hawk - immature male near Boathouse Cafe 8:55am (Bob) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 immatures (Evodia Field & Azalea Pond) Barred Owl - continues Snowy Owl - continues, last reported well after dark on Saturday Feb. 20th* Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 5 Blue Jay - 4 or 5 Common Raven - circled up over northeast Reservoir & flew north at 8:20am (Deb) Black-capped Chickadee - 7 Tufted Titmouse - 14 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Gill Overlook & Chez Armando a.k.a. Top of the Oven) Brown Creeper - 1 Gill Overlook Hermit Thrush - 1 Chez Armando American Robin - 9 Brown Thrasher - 1 Shakespeare Garden House Finch - 6 or 7 American Goldfinch - 6 Fox Sparrow 1 Swampy Pin Oak** White-throated Sparrow - 75 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 Rusty Blackbird - 1 Swampy Pin Oak** Common Grackle - 8 Northern Cardinal - 7 *Not seen during daylight hours since her arrival on Jan. 27th. **The Swampy Pin Oak is a small wooded area in the Ramble south of Azalea Pond. Other Taxa: A Coyote was reported in Ramble early this morning. 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/ --
