Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Sunday, 22 January, 2017
A first-winter-plumaged Red-headed Woodpecker continues today in the vicinity of (a path just west of) Fifth Avenue near East 68th Street, often a bit north of the rustic pavillion on the rock outcrop at The Dene (officiaI name of this area in Central) - this bird, which has begun to see some red yet in its head feathering, & has some wavy black stripes thru each of its white wing patches, has been seen by many hundreds of birders thru the past few weeks at this location.
Among additional species of wild birds seen in the past week in Central Park have been these, many ongoing, in various locations; the uncommon ducks at The Pond (Pintail, Teal, & Wood) there were with the lone Am. Coot on the east shore of the Hallett Sanctuary &/or in & around the phragmites in that vicinity this morning. A fair number of "half-hardy" types were continuning in the SE part of the park as well, such as R-c Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, & also species such as Brown Creeper, Carolina Wren, Fox Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, & more.
Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal ['American'] Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon American Coot Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Blue Jay Common Raven American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch [Eastern] White-breasted Nuthatch [Eastern] Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Eastern Towhee [Red] Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Slate-colored Junco Northern Cardinal Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow good birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
