Registrar: Ursula Mitra
Participants: 9
Weather: Partly sunny, low 30’s F.
Bird Species: 32
The trip included Strawberry Fields, north along the Lake, across Oak Bridge, into the Ramble, Maintenance Meadow, the Feeders, the Oven and to the Boathouse for an early lunch. From there, back to the Ramble, the feeders (in hopes of some Purple Finches – but no success), along Turtle Pond, to the Pinetum, along the west side of the Reservoir and up to the west side of the Ballfields near 97th Street to see the immature Red-headed Woodpecker. The hardy bunch of the group continued up to the Pool to try and find the female Green-winged Teal (also no success).
The highlights were: Two Eastern Towhees, a Cooper’s Hawk being chased by a red-tailed Hawk, a male Red-winged Blackbird and a White-breasted Nuthatch in the Ramble, an American Coot, Pied-billed Grebe, Hooded Mergansers and Buffleheads on the Reservoir and the immature Red-headed Woodpecker near the West side of the Ballfields, this time we saw it South of the 96th Street transverse. We also saw the leucistic Common Grackle in the huge flock of Grackles near West 95th Street along the bridle path but missed the female Boat-tailed Grackle that had been seen with the flock previously.
Species Lists
Birds
Canada Goose
Northern Shoveler
Mallard
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker (immature)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
White-breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
White-throated Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle (one partially leucistic)
Northern Cardinal
