- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Mar. 25, 2022 * NYNY2203.25
- Birds mentioned WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER HARLEQUIN DUCK American Oystercatcher Piping Plover Least Sandpiper American Woodcock Wilson's Snipe Greater Yellowlegs Willet Razorbill BLACK-HEADED GULL Laughing Gull ICELAND GULL Lesser Black-backed Gull GLAUCOUS GULL American Bittern Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White-eyed Vireo Purple Martin Golden-crowned Kinglet Brown Creeper House Wren Marsh Wren Purple Finch LAPLAND LONGSPUR Chipping Sparrow VESPER SPARROW Swamp Sparrow Orange-crowned Warbler - 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 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: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, March 25th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN TANAGER, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED, GLAUCOUS and ICELAND GULLS, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, VESPER SPARROW and more. Since the March doldrums seem to be loosening up, so never as quickly as hoped for, new migrants are slowly appearing. Locally though, Manhattan's two WESTERN TANAGERS continue to garner top billing. The more reliable female at Carl Schurz Park, still present today, usually seen visiting feeders just inside the park off East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street. The west side TANAGER was spotted again last Saturday still around the private Clinton Community Garden off West 48th Street east of 10th Avenue. Waterfowl are now moving north in good numbers while a decent variety continues locally these including the drake KING EIDER remaining at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and another drake KING spotted again Wednesday out near the Ponquogue Bridge at Shinnecock. Two drake HARLEQUIN DUCKS were also still out on the north fork at Southold on Thursday these seen off Horton Point at the end of Lighthouse Road. A BLACK-HEADED GULL was photographed last Saturday at Brooklyn's Plumb Beach where an ICELAND GULL was also present and a BLACK-HEADED in decent plumage was spotted last Sunday at Old Field Point and Lighthouse Park north of Stony Brook where a GLAUCOUS GULL was also still hanging around. Other GLAUCOUS GULLS featured one still around the Brooklyn side of the Verrazzano Bridge Wednesday and one seen off Playland Park in Rye last Sunday morning while another ICELAND GULL was spotted Monday at the Dyckman Street Pier in northern Manhattan. Among the few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were 2 at Floyd Bennett Field on Thursday and another at Jones Beach West End Monday. Up to 4 RAZORBILLS were spotted off Breezy Point during the week one venturing in towards Brighton Beach Thursday. A LEAST SANDPIPER was seen again at Great Kills Park Sunday and other shorebirds noted this week included some more PIPING PLOVERS as well as AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, WILLET, WILSON'S SNIPE and lots of displaying AMERICAN WOODCOCKS. An AMERICAN BITTERN was still around the JFK/Tobay Sanctuary Tuesday while other arriving non-passerines included LAUGHING GULL, SNOWY EGRET and YELLOW-CROWNED and BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS plus numbers of vultures, hawks and falcons. A breeding plumaged LAPLAND LONGSPUR was spotted Monday with Horned Larks along the runway at the old Grumman airport in Calverton and 2 VESPER SPARROWS were still at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue on Monday. Earlier were single WHITE-EYED VIREOS found at Sands Point Tuesday and Ketcham's Creek in Amityville Wednesday while other passerines on the move included PURPLE MARTIN, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE and MARSH WREN, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, PURPLE FINCH and CHIPPING and SWAMP SPARROWS. Late week ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were noted at Randall's Island and Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn and the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River. 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/ --
