Central Park NYC Saturday December 12, 2015 OBS: Deborah Allen & others on bird walk
At the Reservoir we walked part way up the west side from the SW corner. Northern Shoveler - more than 50 Ring-necked Duck - SW Reservoir Bufflehead - at least 6 Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 2 adult and 1 immature male Turtle Pond Ruddy Duck - more than 100 Cooper's Hawk - juvenile & subadult Red-tailed Hawk - 5 various locations The usual Reservoir gulls: Herring, Ring-billed & Great Black-backed Red-belied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Bethesda Terrace (Andrea Hessel) Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker - 2 males at Locust Grove Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper - 4 at various locations Hermit Thrush - Shakespeare Garden before walk Cedar Waxwing - 3 bathing at Azalea Pond (Peter Haskel & Carine Mitchell), others at Shakespeare Garden before walk Fox Sparrow - Upper Lobe Dark-eyed Junco White-throated Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird House Finch American Goldfinch Jean (visiting from Guernsey) reported a possible Orange-crowned Warbler (drab Chiff-chaff like bird with yellow undertail) at the Evodia Field. Deb Allen -- 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/ --
