Central Park NYC Sunday January 22, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Common Loon, Gray Catbird, Hermit Thrush, Fox and Song Sparrows, Eastern Towhee. Canada Goose - around 300 Wood Duck - 1 male southeast corner Reservoir (Deb - early) Northern Shoveler - 75-80 Mallard - around 90 Bufflehead - 7 Hooded Merganser - 12 Ruddy Duck - around 300 Mourning Dove - 15 American Coot - 4 Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - around 120 (mostly Ring-billed) Great Black-backed Gull - 8 Common Loon - 1 Reservoir on water then circling & flying west (Deb & Andrew Miller)* Cooper's Hawk - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Great Horned Owl - 1 continued Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 adult male Winterdale Arch Downy Woodpecker - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Northern Flicker - 1 Sparrow Rock Peregrine Falcon - 1 adult seen on Central Park West from NW Reservoir Blue Jay - 10-14 American Crow - flock of 25 Black-capped Chickadee - 4 or 5 Tufted Titmouse - 75-100 White-breasted Nuthatch - 4-6 Carolina Wren - 1 Swampy Pin Oak Gray Catbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden (Liisi Fletcher) Hermit Thrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 18 House Finch - 5-10 American Goldfinch - 3 Fox Sparrow - 3 Dark-eyed Junco - flock of 17 White-throated Sparrow - 60-80 Song Sparrow - 1 Turtle Pond Eastern Towhee - 3 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- *first reported on Saturday (1/21) by Wolfgang Demisch. -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
