-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Feb. 7, 2025
* NYNY2502.07
– Birds Mentioned
NORTHERN LAPWING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
KING EIDER
Common Eider
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
SANDHILL CRANE
Killdeer
Piping Plover
Long-billed Dowitcher
Razorbill
DOVEKIE
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Glaucous Gull
Iceland Gull
Red-headed Woodpecker
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
PAINTED BUNTING
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 7, 2025 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are NORTHERN LAPWING, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, PAINTED BUNTING, SANDHILL CRANE, PINK-FOOTED and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, DOVEKIE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS and more.
The NORTHERN LAPWING continues in Bridgehampton through today, now favoring farm fields along Halsey Lane a little north of its intersection with Mecox Road. It is often with KILLDEER in the fields, and 819 Halsey Lane is an address used today as a location, but the birds do move around, so also check fields further up Halsey Lane.
Today an adult BOHEMIAN WAXWING was photographed at Jones Beach West End along the entry road just west of the Meadowbrook Parkway, but there were no subsequent reports.
The female-type PAINTED BUNTING in Far Rockaway was seen again last Sunday, while the CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was also noted today, this odd couple lingering around the brushy area with the cat colony just inland from the boardwalk between Beach 26th and 27th Streets.
The SANDHILL CRANE, briefly encountered last Friday, stayed around the upper end of Sagg pond in Bridgehampton through Sunday.
A PINK-FOOTED GOOSE has been seen regularly recently on Eastport Lake in the section north of Montauk Highway and on nearby sod fields, with another still at Crab Meadow Beach last Saturday. Two GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were still visiting private Tung Ting Pond in Centerport early in the week, with another roosting with CANADA GEESE recently on Playland Lake in Rye. The young SWAN visiting Playland Lake to last Saturday, when it was retrieved for rehabilitation, passed away Sunday from severe malnutrition and at that time was re-identified as an emaciated MUTE SWAN – embarrassing, but that’s why pencils have erasers.
The drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE was still off Crab Meadow Beach on Wednesday, and the drake KING EIDER remains around Shinnecock Inlet in the COMMON EIDER flock, while the female KING continues off Mount Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island. Fourteen HARLEQUIN DUCKS were counted at Point Lookout last Saturday.
DOVEKIE reports included four at Shinnecock Inlet Monday and singles off Montauk Point Wednesday, along with over 2,700 RAZORBILLS, and at Culloden Point in Montauk, this joined by a RED-NECKED GREBE. Another RED-NECKED GREBE was in Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, Sunday.
A BLACK-HEADED GULL on Oakland Lake in Alley Pond Park Wednesday was very unusual there, while others continued in Brooklyn between Gravesend Bay and Plumb Beach and around Point Lookout. A couple of BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES were reported off Montauk Point Monday and Wednesday, with three ICELAND GULLS at the Lake Montauk inlet Monday. A GLAUCOUS GULL was still around Hunts Point in the Bronx on Tuesday.
A PIPING PLOVER continues at Point Lookout, and three LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were present this week at Terrell River County Park in Center Moriches.
A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, with another still at Siscowit Reservoir in Pound Ridge.
An adult LARK SPARROW remains around Corwith’s Farmstand, located at 851 Head of Pond Road in Watermill, and a few VESPER SPARROWS are wintering along Hulse Landing Road in Calverton.
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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