Central Park NYC Sunday February 12, 2023 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron, Eurasian Eagle Owl, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Fox Sparrow Canada Goose - around 350 Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 25 Mallard - around 120 Bufflehead - 6 Hooded Merganser - 8 Ruddy Duck - around 370 American Coot - 6 Mourning Dove - 15-20 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 100 (mostly Ring-billed) Great Black-backed Gull - 3 Great Blue Heron - 1 adult on island next to Bow Bridge Cooper's Hawk - 1 adult male - Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 3 or 4 Great Horned Owl - continued Eurasian Eagle Owl - continued (non-countable) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3 Northern Flicker - 1 Shakespeare Garden American Kestrel - 1 male NW Great Lawn Peregrine Falcon - 1 Central Park West Blue Jay - 10-15 American Crow - 5-7 Black-capped Chickadee - 4-6 Tufted Titmouse - 40-50 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 first-winter male Gapstow Bridge White-breasted Nuthatch - 8-10 Brown Creeper - 1 Hallett Sanctuary (Sandra Critelli) Northern Mockingbird - 1 Wagner Cove (Rebecca Pearl) American Robin - 2 dozen House Finch - 4-6 American Goldfinch - 2 Evodia Field feeders Fox Sparrow - 2 Ramble White-throated Sparrow - 40-50 Song Sparrow - 3 Common Grackle - 28-30 Northern Cardinal - 6-8 -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --