– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Feb. 23, 2024
* NYNY2402.23
– Birds mentioned
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
PAINTED BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
ROSS’S GOOSE
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Red-necked Grebe
DOVEKIE
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
Red-headed Woodpecker
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (western subspecies “Audubon’s” form)
– Transcript
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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, February 23rd 2024 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, PAINTED BUNTING, ROSS’S and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, EURASIAN WIGEON, HARLEQUIN DUCK, DOVEKIE, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, “Audubon’s” YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER and more.
The RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, first noted in Prospect Park on February 10th, was still present today on Breeze Hill where it has been visiting a hummingbird feeder and the nearby honeysuckle plants near the hairpin turn on the Prospect Park Lake side of Breeze Hill.
Out at Jones Beach State Park a BOHEMIAN WAXWING was spotted last Saturday in the trees and vegetation around the maintenance buildings at field 10 often providing nice views but many searches the following day were unable to pin the WAXWING down.
On Thursday a somewhat drab female type PAINTED BUNTING was found at Hempstead Lake State Park and that bird did continue there through today feeding in tall grasses on the downward slope off Lake Drive as it traverses the southern end of Hempstead Lake. Park in field 3 across from the southwest corner of the lake and take a path that goes along the bottom of the downward slope below Lake Drive. The BUNTING and a sizable flock of sparrows have been feeding along this slope especially as it gets closer to McDonald’s Pond at the far end of the path. Patience may be required.
Last Tuesday a ROSS’S GOOSE was spotted in the Canada Goose flock at the College of Staten Island campus. It was refound Wednesday at nearby Willowbrook Park but has not been seen in that area since then.
The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was present again this afternoon on the pond off Bowman Avenue next to the Rye Brook shopping center in Westchester County.
The drake EURASIAN WIGEON, now more elusive, was present again last Saturday on the main pond at Connetquot River State Park and some HARLEQUIN DUCKS continue around Jones Inlet seen at both the Jones Beach West End jetty and the Point Lookout jetty and 4 were counted at Orient Point today. A DOVEKIE was also spotted at Point Lookout last Sunday and a decent number of RAZORBILLS remain in that area including 48 on Wednesday. Another DOVEKIE was reported off Shinnecock Wednesday.
An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was seen at Bush Terminal Piers Park Tuesday and Wednesday and at least one immature BLACK-HEADED continues in the Jones Inlet area at times drifting as far east as field 10. An immature GLAUCOUS GULL has been frequenting the area around the Fulton Fish Market at Hunt’s Point in the Bronx recently and an ICELAND GULL continues around the beach at Glen Island Park in Westchester as well as at Bush Terminal Piers Park with another at Floyd Bennett Field Sunday.
A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK spotted Monday morning over Douglaston Queens. During the week RED-NECKED GREBES were noted from Coney Island Beach, in Westchester’s Glen Island Park out to Culloden Point in Montauk. Our RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue at Willowbrook Park on Staten Island and in Westchester’s Croton Point Park and Marshlands Conservancy. A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was still present along Hulse Landing Road in Calverton at least to Tuesday and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was a good find at Jones Beach West End last Saturday while the “Audubon’s” YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER was reported from Jones Beach West End near the Coast Guard Station on Monday.
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.
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