On 23rd Street and the FDR -in the cove-there were 6 Red-breasted Mergansers, 1 Bufflehead, 3 Cormorants, 2 Black Ducks, 4 Mallards and 6 Ruddy Ducks (2 in breeding blue).
Two Peregrine falcons were performing aerial displays on 34th and Second Ave by the Midtown Tunnel. Stuyvesant Square (16th & 2nd) and Stuyvesant Village; Downy Woodpecker, Cardinals, White throated sparrows, Red-tailed hawks, Chickadees, Tufted Titmouse, American Crow, American Robin, Mockingbird, Mourning Doves and Blue Jay. The usual suspects at Union Square Park (14th St.) in addition; American Kestrel and Yellow Bellied Sapsucker. Good Birding, Debbie Becker BirdingAroundNYC.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
