Windy and Cold Central Park

On Sunday, I spent most of the day in the park trying to see a Common Redpoll without success.  However, I did have a good time seeing a group of Red-winged Hawks for the first time this year, a very beautiful European Goldfinch (possibly an escapee rather than a wild bird), Owls and the Common Merganser on the Harlem Meer.  While I wasn’t trying for a long species list, I did end up with a respectable 37.

180 Canada Goose
3 Wood Duck
57 Mallard
6 Bufflehead
8 Hooded Merganser
1 Common Merganser
2 Ruddy Duck
1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Cooper’s Hawk
4 Red-tailed Hawk
2 American Coot
18 Ring-billed Gull
1 Great Black-backed Gull
4 Mourning Dove
2 Northern Saw-whet Owl
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
6 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
4 Blue Jay
8 Black-capped Chickadee
33 Tufted Titmouse
6 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
74 American Robin
2 European Starling
1 Song Sparrow
23 White-throated Sparrow
2 Dark-eyed Junco
4 Northern Cardinal
7 Red-winged Blackbird
20 Common Grackle
9 House Finch
11 American Goldfinch
1 European Goldfinch
15 House Sparrow
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