Central Park NYC Sunday January 17, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk
Snow Goose - 2 adults SE Reservoir and at 8am with Alice Deutsch, Susan Schulz, and Sally Weiner Canada Goose - many Reservoir American Black Duck - male Reservoir Mallard - Reservoir & Lake Ring-necked Duck - male Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 50+ the Lake Bufflehead - male & female Reservoir Ruddy Duck - at least 75 Reservoir Pied-billed Grebe - 1 or 2 Reservoir (Carine Mitchell) Double-crested Cormorant - 2 or 3 Reservoir Cooper's Hawk - adult with yellow eyes just west of Met Museum Red-tailed Hawk - immature (C. Mitchell) American Coot - Reservoir (C. Mitchell) Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - adult male near Met Museum in Leatherleaf Viburnum Downy Woodpecker - feeders Northern Flicker - Maintenance Field & Pinetum Blue Jay - very tame hand fed near Summer House Black-capped Chickadee - 2 or 3 Tufted Titmouse - at least 4 White-breasted Nuthatch - at least 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 or 2 in Shakespeare Garden (DA & Karen Evans) Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3 along the Gill and close to Azalea Pond (Peter Haskel, etc.) American Robin Orange-crowned Warbler - continues near Met Museum in Leatherleaf Viburnum Fox Sparrow - 2 (one at the Gill Overlook) House Finch - feeders American Goldfinch - feeders I walked around the Reservoir early this morning to look for any odd gulls, especially the Iceland Gull reported yesterday, but no luck. Xander Vitarelli called us this morning to let us know that late yesterday (1/16) he had seen the two Snow Geese grazing on the Great Lawn with a flock of Canada Geese. 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
