Central Park NYC Sunday February 19, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, increase in Cooper's Hawk and Red-tailed Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Brown Creeper, Carolina Wren, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow, Eastern Towhee. Canada Goose - 285-300 Wood Duck - 1 male with female Mallard at the Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 43 Mallard - 45-50 Bufflehead - 4 Hooded Merganser - 6-7 Red-breasted Merganser - 1 female/first-winter Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 57 Mourning Dove - 20-25 American Coot - 3 Ring-billed Gull - around 100 Herring Gull - 7-10 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir Great Blue Heron - flyover Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - 3 (1 adult male, 1 first-cycle male, 1 first-cycle female) Red-tailed Hawk - 5-6 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4-6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 male Cedar Hill Downy Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Peregrine Falcon - 1 perched Central Park West Blue Jay - 20-25 American Crow - flyover flock of 16 Black-capped Chickadee - 5-7 Tufted Titmouse - 30-40 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4-6 Brown Creeper - 1 Ramble Carolina Wren - 1 Oven Hermit Thrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 30-40 House Finch - 4-5 American Goldfinch - 2 Evodia Field feeders Fox Sparrow - 2 (Mugger's Woods & Oven) White-throated Sparrow - 30-40 Eastern Towhee - 2 males Shakespeare Garden Common Grackle - 3 Northern Cardinal - 13-15 -- Others reported the continuing Belted Kingfisher at the Harlem Meer, and the continuing male Redhead at the Pool. See @BirdCentralPark on twitter maintained by David Barrett for these reports. -- Deb Allen -- 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/ --
