Central Park, NYC Sunday, December 17, 2017 Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Boat-tailed Grackle, Ring-necked Ducks, Wood Ducks, Cooper's Hawk, & Fox Sparrows. Reservoir birds observed from the Reservoir's south end. Canada Goose - flyovers Wood Duck - 3 males Reservoir Ring-necked Duck - 2 Reservoir Hooded Merganser - 10 Reservoir Pied-billed Grebe - Reservoir Mourning Dove American Coot - 2 Reservoir Ring-billed, Herring & Great Black-backed Gulls - Reservoir Great Blue Heron - immature standing on the frozen Lake near Bow Bridge Cooper's Hawk - NW Reservoir seen from the south end (Peter Haskel) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Ramble seen from Shakespeare Garden Red-bellied Woodpecker Yelllow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - (Matthew Mellor) between Evodia Field & Boathouse Blue Jay Common Raven - flyover heading south out of the park near Sixth Ave. with Sharon Berlan (SW section CBC) Black-capped Chickadee - Shakespeare Garden (Sandra Critelli) Tufted Titmouse - Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Shakespeare Garden Brown Creeper - Shakespeare Garden Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 (2 Shakespeare Garden (Matthew Mellor), 1 Upper Lobe) Hermit Thrush - Shakespeare Garden House Finch - 5-7 American Goldfinch - 10 Fox Sparrow - 7 (Mugger's Woods & Upper Lobe) Dark-eyed Junco - Evodia Field Red-winged Blackbird - 3 (1 male, 2 females) Evodia Field Common Grackle - 75-100 Boat-tailed Grackle - first-winter bird with dark eyes Evodia Field with Common Grackles Northern Cardinal Tweets today included a White-crowned Sparrow at the Pool (Stefan Passlick), a Gray Catbird north of Strawberry Fields (Jordan Spindel), and a Common Yellowthroat in the North Woods (Xander Vitarelli). I look forward to seeing the complete Central Park CBC list. 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/ --
