Central Park NYC Sunday, January 29, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Gray Catbird, Eastern Towhee. Canada Goose - around 300 Wood Duck - 2 males Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 85-90 Mallard - around 0 Bufflehead - 14 Hooded Merganser - 16 Red-breasted Merganser - 3 Mourning Dove - 17 American Coot - 6-8 Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - 220-250 Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Cooper's Hawk - 2 (adult & first-winter) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 or 4 Eastern Screech-Owl - found yesterday (1/28) by Barbara Green, many other observers* Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 or 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 adult male Winterdale Arch Downy Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Peregrine Falcon - 1 of the pair on Central Park West spotted by Wolfgang Demisch Blue Jay - 6-10 American Crow - flock of 9 Black-capped Chickadee - 5-7 tufted Titmouse 50-60 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Pinetum (Sandra Critelli) White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Gray Catbird - 1 Shakespeare Garden - (Mary Kate Horbac) Hermit Thrush - 1 Shakespeare Garden American Robin - 25-30 American Goldfinch - 3-4 Fox Sparrow - 3 Dark-eyed Junco - 4 Song Sparrow - 1 singing north of Reservoir Eastern Towhee - 1 male Shakespeare Garden Northern Cardinal - 5-7 -- *The E. Screech-Owl wasn't seen again today, but may still be around. A couple of pairs of Eastern Screech-Owls nest in NY County, but they're very rare in Central Park. -- A Common Loon has been appearing on the Reservoir with some regularity and was reported again there later in the day. For timely bird reports see @BirdCentralPark on twitter. -- 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/ --
