Central Park NYC - Sunday February 21, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.on bird walk
At the Reservoir from 8 to 9am (DA, and some of the same birds seen with the group later): Canada Goose - 486 (more or less) American Black Duck Mallard - at least 60 Northern Shoveler - around 130 Bufflehead - at least 10 - males chasing females and displaying Red-breasted Merganser - distant female or first-winter - on walk 11:55am Ruddy Duck - around 70 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - adult collecting twigs east side American Coot - 3 Ring-billed & Herring gulls Great Black-backed Gull - 15 Red-belllied Woodpecker - 1 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Song Sparrow - 1 singing Common Grackle - flock of at least 70 Pinetum -- Cooper's Hawk - Tupelo Field and Shakespeare Garden Red-tailed Hawk - adult Pinetum Mourning Dove Downy Woodpecker - 2 at feeders Black-capped Chickadee - feeders Tufted Titmouse - notable a pair inspecting a knothole near the Reservoir White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 at feeders, others elsewhere Brown Creeper - feeders and source of the Gill American Robin - not many Song Sparrow - near Boathouse & heard at feeders Fox Sparrow - feeders White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal - many locations House Finch - 3 feeders American Goldfinch - around 10 at feeders American Woodcock reported by Andrew Rubenfeld flying toward the Tupelo field, not sure when but before 9:30. George Beckwith and Wendy Miller reported that they'd seen a Red-tailed Hawk collecting twigs at 72nd Street & Fifth Avenue. Arthur ____ reported a Gray Catbird in the Ramble. Looking forward to spring migration, 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/ --
