My New Year's resolution is to do a little more birding and a little less photography during the non-nesting/fledgling period for hawks. (Basically the months outside of April, May, June and July.)
So today, I just went for a long walk around Central Park today with my scope and took an occasional digiscoping picture. My bird count 39 species. The highlight was seeing two Baltimore Orioles.
Count |
Species |
|
81 |
Canada Goose |
2 |
Wood Duck |
41 |
Mallard |
1 |
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) |
37 |
Northern Shoveler |
1 |
Ring-necked Duck |
8 |
Bufflehead |
9 |
Hooded Merganser |
10 |
Ruddy Duck |
4 |
Pied-billed Grebe |
1 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
1 |
Cooper's Hawk |
3 |
Red-tailed Hawk |
5 |
American Coot |
18 |
Ring-billed Gull |
6 |
Great Black-backed Gull |
23 |
Rock Pigeon |
1 |
Mourning Dove |
1 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
2 |
Downy Woodpecker |
1 |
Hairy Woodpecker |
11 |
Blue Jay |
1 |
American Crow |
2 |
Black-capped Chickadee |
2 |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
1 |
Brown Creeper |
1 |
Carolina Wren |
2 |
American Robin |
1 |
Northern Mockingbird |
4 |
European Starling |
1 |
Song Sparrow |
28 |
White-throated Sparrow |
8 |
Dark-eyed Junco |
2 |
Northern Cardinal |
1 |
Red-winged Blackbird |
6 |
Common Grackle
|
2 |
Baltimore Oriole |
11 |
House Finch |
8 |
American Goldfinch |
23 |
House Sparrow |






