Central Park & Inwood Hill Park, NYC Sunday, February 18, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Inwood HIll Park (evening) - Eastern Screech-Owls; Central Park (morning) - Ring-necked Duck pair, male Wood Duck, Fox Sparrows, Brown Creepers. Central Park (morning): Canada Goose - around 300 Reservoir & pair at Turtle Pond Wood Duck - male Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 61 (3 Reservoir, at least 58 Turtle Pond) Mallard - 30+ Reservoir Ring-necked Duck - pair Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 3 (2 males, 1 female Turtle Pond) Ruddy Duck - 65+ Reservoir Mourning Dove - 2 Evodia Field feeders American Coot - 5 Reservoir Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - at least 200 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - around 30 Reservoir Red-tailed Hawk - over west side (Sandra Critelli) Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Blue Jay - several American Crow - heard White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 (near Laupot Bridge, Pinetum, feeders) Brown Creeper - 3 (feeders (Sandra Critelli), 2 near Boathouse (Sandra Critelli & Mark Siegeltuch)) House Finch - 7 (Maintenance Field & feeders) American Goldfinch - 6 (feeders & Maintenance Field) Fox Sparrow - 2 Evodia Field near feeders (Sandra Critelli) White-throated Sparrow - not many Red-winged Blackbird - male at feeders Common Grackle - a few near feeders Northern Cardinal - residents -- Inwood Hill Park (evening & late afternoon): Ring-billed, Herring & Great Black-backed gulls - Muscota Marsh Cooper's Hawk - juvenile Muscota Marsh Eastern Screech-Owl - 2 pairs (the first of these spotted by Matthieu Benoit) Northern Mockingbird - in Eastern Red Cedar Muscota Marsh Also at Inwood several Northern Flying Squirrels, a life mammal for most of us. We looked for, but didn't find, the drake Canvasback that sometimes visits Muscota Marsh. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @DAllenNYC & @BirdingBobNYC. See also @BirdCentralPark (Manhattan Bird Alert). -- 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/ --
