Central Park, NYC Sunday January 23, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Glaucous Gull, Long-tailed Duck, Peregrine Falcon, Snow Goose, Wood Duck. Snow Goose - 1 immature Great Lawn with Canada Goose flock Canada Goose - 500-600 Wood Duck - 2 males Reservoir Northern Shoveler - around 150 Mallard - 45-50 American Black Duck - 2 males Reservoir Long-tailed Duck - 1 in Ruddy Duck flock Reservoir Bufflehead - 12 Hooded Merganser - 17 Ruddy Duck - 450-500 Mourning Dove - 47 American Coot - 8 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - sround 300 Glaucous Gull - 1 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - around 10 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flyover Reservoir Great Blue Heron - Balcony Bridge (Sandra Critelli) Cooper's Hawk - adult male Oven Red-tailed Hawk - 3 adults Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow -bellied Sapsucker - 1 flyover Maintenance Field Downy Woodpecker - 4 Peregrine Falcon - 2 (male & female) north Reservoir, male's color band reported to BBL Blue Jay - 3-5 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Ramble near Belvedere Castle (Bob - early) Brown Creeper - 2 (Boathouse (Ryan Serio), Castle (Dan Stevenson)) Hermit Thrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden House Finch - 15-25 American Goldfinch - 2 Shakespeare Garden, others at Oak Bridge Fox Sparrow - 2 Oak Bridge (Sandra Critelli) White-throated Sparrow - 30-50 Red-winged Blackbird - flock of 20-25 Northern Cardinal - 3-5 -- Late in the day Emily Bernay @emilybernay got a video of a Bald Eagle catching a gull at the Reservoir, reported on the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark managed by David Barrett. -- Deb Allen
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