-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 10, 2025
* NYNY2501.10
– Birds Mentioned
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE
Canada Goose
TUNDRA SWAN
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
Common Eider
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Mourning Dove
Semipalmated Plover
Long-billed Dowitcher
Razorbill
DOVEKIE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Glaucous Gull
Iceland Gull
Snowy Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Lapland Longspur
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Nelson’s Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
PAINTED BUNTING
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, January
10, 2025 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, WHITE-WINGED
DOVE, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, PAINTED BUNTING, TUNDRA SWAN, GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK,
DOVEKIE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.
The three PINK-FOOTED GEESE in Northport since December 28 were still
visiting the same soccer field as of Thursday, with at least 2 showing
up Friday – the address for this site is 337 Eatons Neck Road, which
leads to a parking lot next to the soccer field. If the Canada Goose
flock is present, look through the locked chain-link fence for the
PINK-FOOTS but do not enter the field.
A surprise visitor last Saturday to an Oakwood Beach yard on Staten
Island was a WHITE-WINGED DOVE visiting a feeder with some MOURNING
DOVES, where it was photographed before disappearing towards nearby
marshes.
The RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD visiting feeders at a home in Eastport since
November 2nd was last seen there this past Monday, and we thank the
very gracious homeowners for their hospitality in permitting so many
birders to enjoy this exciting visitor – well done!
The female-plumaged PAINTED BUNTING and the CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
continue to share habitat together in Far Rockaway, still present
today in the plantings along the beach boardwalk, currently between
Beach 26th and 27th Streets.|
Two TUNDRA SWANS paid a surprise visit Tuesday to the cove by the
Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station but were gone by the
following day.
The lower Westchester GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE has been alternating
roosting sites between Playland Lake in Rye and the Bowman Avenue
pond, depending on ice conditions, and another has been out in
Riverhead recently on fields by the Reeves Avenue buffalo farm or
nearby Doctor’s Path.
A EURASIAN WIGEON was seen again Monday from Cordwood Park in St.
James, with another reported again Saturday on the West Pond at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
A drake KING EIDER was noted through Thursday with COMMON EIDER in the
vicinity of the Ponquogue Bridge at Shinnecock, and a HARLEQUIN DUCK
was off Oakland Beach at Gilgo today, with others still in Jones
Inlet.
Out at Montauk Point last Saturday 3 DOVEKIES were reported along with
300 RAZORBILLS, and 18 RAZORBILLS were seen off Riis Park the next
day, but note that the Southern Nassau Christmas Count Saturday
recorded over 2,000 RAZOBILLS from Tobay west to beyond Jones Inlet in
a large early morning flight.
The Southern Nassau Count also recorded 5 BLACK-HEADED GULLS, these
recently hanging out mostly around the Jones Beach West End bar and
over to the Field 10 marshes.
During the week single GLAUCOUS GULLS were reported from the Brooklyn
Army Terminal Pier 4, Miller Field on Staten Island Saturday, in the
Bellport area and at Shinnecock Thursday and Friday, and ICELAND
GULLS have also been seen around Bellport, including at the Yacht
Club, and on Staten Island last weekend.
Two LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were at Smith Pond in Rockville Centre last
Saturday, another at Cedar Beach Wednesday.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and
at Sunken Meadow State Park.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT has been at Mill Pond Preserve in Wantagh since
last Saturday, and a DICKCISSEL continues in Riverside Park near the
suet feeder south of the tennis courts at about West 119th Street.
The Southern Nassau Christmas Count Saturday recorded 134 species,
including 12 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, 5 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 1 SNOWY and 3
NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS, 2 EASTERN PHOEBES, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, NELSON’S
SPARROW, and 7 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS.
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