[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC: Sun. Dec. 27, 2020 - Greater White-fronted Goose, Red-shouldered Hawk, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC
Sunday December 27, 2020
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.

Highlights: Greater White-fronted Goose (first Central Park record), 
Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow.

Greater White-fronted Goose - northeast Reservoir 8:43-8:55am* (Deb only)
Canada Goose - 159
Northern Shoveler - 21
Mallard - 187
American Black Duck - 1 male Reservoir
Bufflehead - 8
Hooded Merganser - 9
Ruddy Duck - 49
Mourning Dove - 1 Reservoir
American Coot - 7
Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 80
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Cooper's Hawk - 3
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 immature Turtle Pond Island
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Pinetum
Barred Owl - 1 continues
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 south side of Turtle Pond
Downy Woodpecker - 1 Evodia Field feeders
American Kestrel - 1 male Delacorte Theater (Sandra Critelli)
Peregrine Falcon - adult female perched west of north gate house Reservoir 
(Deb-early))
Blue Jay - 15
American Crow - flyover Reservoir
Black-capped Chickadee - 9
Tufted Titmouse - around 30
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Belvedere Castle
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
Carolina Wren - 1 downslope from Weather Station SE of Castle
Hermit Thrush - 2 (E79th Street Entrance (Bob-Early), Castle)
American Robin - around 20
House Finch - 5 
American Goldfinch - 1 Evodia Field feeders
Fox Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field feeders (Barbara Green)
White-throated Sparrow - 30-40
Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Evodia Field feeders
Northern Cardinal - 5

*Photos of Greater White-fronted Goose on the Resservoir:
https://twitter.com/DAllenNYC/status/1343270987152957441/photo/1

Deb Allen
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[nysbirds-l] Crossbills Jones Beach WE

[Rob Bate]

A flock of 30+ Red Crossbills is feeding around the median at Jones Beach West 
End.

Rob Bate
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[nysbirds-l] Black-headed Gull, Queens

[Corey Finger]

Was seen on shore on the bay side of Breezy Point. Last seen flying out towards 
lower New York Harbor. Was loosely associating with Bonaparte’s Gulls, so check 
flocks of them anywhere around the area.

Good Birding,
Corey Finger

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