- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Dec. 21, 2012 * NYNY1212.21
- Birds mentioned BARNACLE GOOSE+ AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+ COMMON MURRE+ CAVE SWALLOW+ LE CONTE'S SPARROW+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Cackling Goose Eurasian Wigeon Blue-winged Teal TUFTED DUCK Harlequin Duck BARROW'S GOLDENEYE Red-necked Grebe Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk BLACK RAIL American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover BLACK-HEADED GULL Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Parasitic Jaeger DOVEKIE Razorbill BLACK GUILLEMOT SNOWY OWL Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Nelson's Sparrow Lapland Longspur Indigo Bunting Boat-tailed Grackle Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll - Transcript If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm You can also send reports and digital image files via email to [email protected]. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 486 High Street Victor, NY 14564 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 To report sightings call: Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays, during the day) Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 (Long Island) Compiler: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, December 21st 2012 at 7pm. The highlights of today's tape are TUFTED DUCK, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, BARNACLE GOOSE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, BLACK RAIL, BLACK-HEADED GULL, DOVEKIE, COMMON MURRE, BLACK GUILLEMOT, SNOWY OWL, CAVE SWALLOW, LE CONTE'S SPARROW and much more. The first Saturday in this year's Christmas Count period proved to be a good one with the Brooklyn Count leading the way with 135 species. Highlights included a EURASIAN WIGEON at Marine Park, the drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE back again hopefully for the winter at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, RED-NECKED GREBE, their first AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN soaring over Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 37 RAZORBILLS, 2 NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS, a first CAVE SWALLOW, ORANGE-CROWNED, NASHVILLE, BLACK-THROATED BLUE and BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, NELSON'S SPARROW, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, 2 RED and 75 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS and 2 COMMON REDPOLLS. The Montauk Count was not far behind with 132 species including their first CACKLING GOOSE, 2 EURASIAN WIGEON, 4 RED-NECKED GREBES, 2 BALD EAGLES and 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Gardiner's Island, 1 ICELAND and 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, 4 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES, 58 DOVEKIES and 580 RAZORBILLS, the SNOWY OWL on Hick's Island off the tip of Napeague, SHORT-EARED and NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS, EASTERN PHOEBE, ORANGE-CROWNED and PINE WARBLERS, 146 RED and 104 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS, 6 COMMON REDPOLLS and a first BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE. For count period only at Montauk were a COMMON MURRE and a BLACK GUILLEMOT off the point Monday morning and the immature BLACK-HEADED GULL next count day was around the mouth of Montauk Harbor on Thursday. The Northern Nassau Count Saturday featured an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN flying east over Lloyd Harbor plus CACKLING GOOSE, EASTERN PHOEBE and NELSON'S SPARROW. Sunday's very poor weather produced lower results. Captree recorded 115 species including a lingering BARNACLE GOOSE at St. Charles Cemetery, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, a BLACK RAIL around Captree, a lingering AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at Heckscher State Park, a PARASITIC JAEGER off Robert Moses State Park, 19 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES, RAZORBILL and 6 DOVEKIES, 2 COMMON RAVENS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and 43 RED and 7 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS. The BARNACLE GOOSE and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE presumably are spending the night at Belmont Lake State Park and spending the day at St. Charles Cemetery nearby. The cemetery is east of Farmingdale between New Highway on the west and Wellwood Avenue on the east. The Queens Count netted 109 species highlighted by the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN at Powell's Cove, a DOVEKIE off Atlantic Beach, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS, INDIGO BUNTING, 6 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS and COMMON REDPOLL. An interesting count period bird was a LE CONTE'S SPARROW found Saturday at Edgemere Landfill but not relocated for the count. In Central Park Sunday as part of the Lower Hudson Count they recorded BARRED OWL, 4 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS and 2 COMMON REDPOLLS with NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL on count period. A drake TUFTED DUCK found Monday in Huntington Harbor was still present this morning but does move around the area quite a bit. Look especially around Knutson Marine or from the nearby Town Park in hail site. The Van Cortlandt Park BARNACLE GOOSE continues on the Parade Grounds there where the CACKLING GOOSE also noted there periodically. Two drake EURASIAN WIGEON and the hybrid Wigeon have been on the Massapequa Preserve pond that is east of the eastern end of Pittsburgh Avenue. The poor weather today produced a nice DOVEKIE flight in Brooklyn with 21 seen in Gravesend Bay and 2 more off Coney Island. Other birds included a RAZORBILL in Sheepshead Bay and an ICELAND GULL at Coney Island Beach. Three HARLEQUIN DUCKS were still recently around the Point Lookout jetties. In Setauket the immature BLACK-HEADED GULL was still present in Little Bay Thursday and a EURASIAN WIGEON was on the Sayville Golf Course today. A drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was back as of Wednesday at Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton. Today an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was roosting with other gulls along Further Lane in East Hampton and birds at Montauk Point included 4 DOVEKIES, 68 RAZORBILLS and 8 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES. To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. 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