Birds in my highly urban Backyard in NYC

I'm in the country so we get hundreds of birds everyday but many more this year due to habitat destruction in areas of close proximity. I've always gotten a good 25 or so Mourning Doves. They love hiding from the Red-tailed hawks that sit in the highest trees behind me and keep watch of the Doves. I can get upwards of 100+ Red-winged Blackbirds in my yard displaced from the pond across the street that the new owners destroyed by cutting down everything around it and colored the water blue (how beautiful is that?). I get upwards of 20 maybe 25 cardinals back there at any one time but it usually just ten or so that take shifts hitting the feeders. Blue Jays come maybe a dozen at a time and struggle for dominance as to who rules the feeders at any one time. Crows are the early birds of which I might get seven or eight. American goldfinches come maybe a dozen at a time but perhaps a few less on average. Purple finches only come maybe two or three a day. Downy Woodpeckers probably less than previous years with maybe three of four at any one time. I've only been getting a pair of Red-breasted woodpeckers this year - fewer than usual. The usual suspects like black capped chickadees, tufted titmouses, white-breasted nuthatches, tree sparrows, are common all year round. Other common woodpeckers such as Northern sapsuckers and Hairy Woodpecker don't stop by too often though one female supsucker comes everyday in the warmer months to yank worms out of my wood chips along with the robins, on the side of the house where I can get no shots due to a screen on the bathroom window.. Black-eyed Juncos come by the dozens but only in winter. Most of the year House Sparrows are rare but when they do arrive they come in good numbers.
To sum it up there were far more birds this year than in previous years which I believe is due to habitat destruction . I have never seen a pigeon back there but one or two across the street on the neighbor's lawn.

@ken-potter, nice! you should make that into a journal post of your own!

@tresfisher, thanks for the live migration map link -- really cool! The buds on the white mulberry here in the backyard are just barely starting to open a tiny bit, so there won't be any berries for a couple of months at least.
I was very glad to hear that you "always enjoy my observations and thoughts". :)

@dcoopercem -- So you mean set up a spot in the backyard with some potted plants and a coffee can with water in it, suspended over a plate so it will drip? I can think about trying to do that although I am not sure where in the backyard I would do that.

The last two days I have not seen any birds in the backyard in the morning. I don't know why.

On Sunday April 7th I again saw no birds at all in the morning in the backyard.

@susanhewitt
To be quite honest "backyard birds" bore me because I get so many so my only interest here was to contribute to whatever it is you are trying to do here. I hope didn't misread your intent. If so yell at me! I contribute to others projects even those bore me personally like documenting all the ant mounds around here (which is actually starting to interest me). KP