-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Feb. 18, 2022 * NYNY2202.18
- Birds Mentioned SLATY-BACKED GULL+ WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE EURASIAN WIGEON KING EIDER Common Goldeneye BARROW'S GOLDENEYE Common Gallinule DOVEKIE Razorbill Black-legged Kittiwake LITTLE GULL Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull GLAUCOUS GULL American Bittern Bald Eagle Snowy Owl Peregrine Falcon Eastern Phoebe VESPER SPARROW Baltimore Oriole DICKCISSEL 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 nysarc44<at>nybirds<dot>org 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) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are SLATY-BACKED GULL, WESTERN TANAGER, LITTLE GULL, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER and BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, DOVEKIE, GLAUCOUS GULL, VESPER SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and more. The sub-adult SLATY-BACKED GULL, building up the suspense last Saturday in Central Park, finally appeared on the reservoir about noon time and provided satisfying views for the gathered crowd until soon thereafter flushed off along with a few hundred other Gulls by a passing BALD EAGLE. We are unaware of any confirmed visits since then, though ICELAND and LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS have continued to visit the reservoir on subsequent days. Manhattan's two WESTERN TANAGERS feature a more reliable one best seen in the morning at Carl Schurz Park around the feeders located off East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street, and an elusive one circulating around the neighborhood near Clinton Community Garden off West 48th Street east of 10th Avenue. Another interesting Manhattan visitor was a SNOWY OWL perched on an Upper West Side building, being harassed by PEREGRINE FALCONS last Saturday. Late Thursday afternoon an adult LITTLE GULL paid a surprise visit to Piermont Pier in Rockland County, the bird photographed as it very quickly continued its journey down the Hudson River. Single GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE this week included repeat sightings yesterday at Rockland Lake State Park and on Tung Ting Pond in Centerport, while the lower Westchester bird was today back on its now partially open pond off Bowman Avenue in Rye Brook. Last Sunday EURASIAN WIGEON were again seen at Bush Terminal Piers Park and on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and the drake KING EIDER was still around Great Kills Park on Staten Island on Wednesday. A female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was spotted Tuesday and also present Wednesday with COMMON GOLDENEYES off Culloden Point in Montauk. Also in Montauk, a highlight Wednesday morning were three DOVEKIES flying in off the Point but quickly disappearing once landing in the choppy sea. Featured too at the Point were 42 RAZORBILLS counted Tuesday, with 34 on Wednesday, and counts of 4 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES Tuesday, 6 more on Wednesday. ICELAND GULLS this week were spotted at Inwood Hill Park, Plumb Beach to Wednesday, and at Playland Park in Rye today, with a peak of three spotted Tuesday around Montauk Harbor Inlet, where a GLAUCOUS GULL was reported Saturday. Another GLAUCOUS appeared in the Bronx yesterday, A COMMON GALLINULE continues at Mill Pond Park in Bellmore, and AMERICAN BITTERNS were noted this week at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Tobay Sanctuary and out at Napeague. EASTERN PHOEBE and BALTIMORE ORIOLE were both still surviving at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn this week, and VESPER SPARROWS were still at Caumsett State Park and the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center on Thursday. A DICKCISSEL was spotted Sunday at feeders at the Trap House just east of Wolfe’s Pond Park on Staten Island. To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling. - End transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
