Central Park NYC Saturday Nov. 5, 2016 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Boathouse at 9am.
Highlights: Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Cooper's Hawks including two hatch-year birds at the Oven, Hooded Mergansers, Buffleheads and a Wood Duck at the Reservoir. Canada Goose - a few on the Reservoir Wood Duck - male Reservoir (Deb before walk) Mallard - the usual numbers Turtle Pond & the Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 7 Turtle Pond Bufflehead - 2 males SE Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 5 SE Reservoir Ruddy Duck - around 50 south end, others north end Reservoir Mourning Dove Ring-billed, Herring & Great Black-backed Gulls - Reservoir Turkey Vulture - 7 over Sparrow Rock (Deb after lunch) Cooper's Hawk - adult over Sparrow Rock (Jeff Ward), 2 hatch-year birds at the Oven, one eating a small bird (Jeff Ward) Red-tailed Hawk - several flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Pinetum (Jeff Ward), another at Sparrow Rock before the walk Downy Woodpecker - Hamilton Statue near Met Museum Northern Flicker - Sparrow Rock (Ginny deLiagre) Blue Jay - usual numbers Crow sp. - flyover (silent) Black-capped Chickadee - many locations some feeding in hemlock in Shakespeare Garden Tufted Titmouse - everywhere Red-breasted Nuthatch - Pinetum (Alison Schondorf) White-breasted Nuthatch - Maintenance Field, Pinetum, & Oven Winter Wren - Tupelo Field (Deb after lunch) Carolina Wren - singing south of Evodia Field (Andrea Hessel, MD) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Reservoir (Tom Ahlf) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 (Maintenance Field, 2 Reservoir (Jeff Ward), Pinetum) Hermit Thrush - fewer than last week, but seen at most locations American Robin - many locations House Finch - Hamilton Statue near Met Museum Palm Warbler - Pinetum (Andrea Hessel MD), Sparrow Rock (Jeff Ward) Yellow-rumped Warbler - at least 3 Pinetum Chipping Sparrow - in mixed flock Alexander Hamilton Statue near Met Museum Field Sparrow - Hamilton Statue (tweeted by Gus Keri at Cleopatra's Needle on Nov. 2) Fox Sparrow - Pinetum (thanks to Isaiad Sigman-Wender) Song Sparrow - a few in many locations White-throated Sparrow - too many Dark-eyed Junco - numerous sparrow again today Northern Cardinal - residents Red-winged Blackbird - 2 females Turtle Pond (seen with Bradley Kane late afternoon) Common Grackle - flock of 80-100 wandering around Wolfgang Demisch reported 2 Peregrine Falcons circling over the Pinetum and 2 Common Ravens with 2 Red-tailed hawks over East 84th Street this morning. Elise Boeger reported an American Kestrel at the East Meadow seen with Ken Chaya. 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/ --
