The Garden's unofficial Christmas Bird Count (11am-2pm) turned up the following birds on a cloudy Saturday:
Barred Owl-1 Great Horned Owl-2 Red tailed hawk-2 Cooper's Hawk-3 American Crow-4 American Goldfinch-24+ Black capped Chickadee-26+ House Finch-35+ Tufted Titmice-7 European Starling-285 (on Japanese Pagoda Tree) White throated Sparrow-14 Song Sparrow-1 Winter Wren -2 Hairy Woodpecker-1 Downy Woodpecker -1 Red bellied woodpecker (heard) Mockingbird-1 Red breasted nuthatch-1 White breasted nuthatch (heard) American Robin-64 Northern Cardinal-4 Blue Jay-12 Hooded merganser-4 Mallard-6 Dark eyed junco-33 Mourning Dove-5 Thank you to all the birders who helped count! 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/[email protected]/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/ --
