– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Dec. 11, 2020
* NYNY2012.11
– Birds mentioned
MEW GULL+
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
BARNACLE GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
EARED GREBE
Razorbill
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Bonaparte’s Gull
ICELAND GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Northern Gannet
Red-headed Woodpecker
Horned Lark
Wood Thrush
Common Redpoll
RED CROSSBILL
Snow Bunting
Lincoln’s Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Baltimore Oriole
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Cape May Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
– Transcript
If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at https://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/…
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, December 11th 2020 at 10pm. The highlights of today’s tape are MEW GULL, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, WESTERN TANAGER, EARED GREBE, BARNACLE GOOSE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL, RED CROSSBILL, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and more.
Last Tuesday a first winter gull spotted at the Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 was photographed and identified as a Eurasian form of MEW GULL, also referred to as Common Gull, this variety and age requiring careful separation from the same aged Ring-billed Gull. A MEW GULL may have also been seen at Pier 4 near noon today and should be looked for among the many gulls gathering there.
Last Sunday a bright WESTERN TANAGER, but not the individual seen previously in Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery, was found in the Chelsea section of lower Manhattan and has remained there through today. This TANAGER has been feeding in fruiting trees along West 22nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues usually closer to 10th including near a small playground park.
Just two ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHERS this week with the one at Nissequogue River State Park in King’s Park where it was being seen at least to Wednesday and the one in Green-wood Cemetery to last Sunday.
The EARED GREBE was still on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge today.
Two BARNACLE GEESE spotted December 1st were still being seen with Canada Geese along Deerfield Road north of Mill Pond in Watermill at least through yesterday. The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was seen on Hook Pond in East Hampton yesterday and today while the one in Rye Brook has recently become quite elusive. Single EURASIAN WIGEON this week were noted at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center to Monday and Hempstead Lake State Park to Thursday, on Mill Pond in Oyster Bay Sunday and on Pepperidge Lake north of East Moriches Boulevard Monday. A female BARROW’S GOLDENEYE was last reported last Saturday on the pond at Frank Melville Memorial Park in Setauket the previous day providing a drake flying by Crab Meadow Beach. A female HARLEQUIN DUCK was still present Wednesday at Shinnecock Inlet where 2 KING EIDER have been seen recently. Other recent KINGS have been spotted off Fort Tilden, Jacob Riis Park and Robert Moses State Park.
The GLAUCOUS GULL was photographed at Shinnecock Inlet Tuesday while last Saturday an ICELAND GULL visited the Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4. At Robert Moses State Park wind conditions on Monday provided 13 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES offshore with another 11 counted Wednesday. Other high totals at Moses featured 940 BONAPARTE’S GULLS, 121 HORNED LARKS and 173 SNOW BUNTINGS on Monday with another 520 BONAPARTES and 320 NORTHERN GANNETS Wednesday.
A RED-NECKED GREBE has been on Meadow Lake at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park since Tuesday. Sixty-five RAZORBILLS were counted off Montauk Point last Tuesday when a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was also seen again there.
Tuesday brought some COMMON REDPOLLS into our area while small numbers of RED CROSSBILLS today included 15 at Heckscher State Park and 25 along the Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road in Manorville where a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues.
The variety of lingering passerines currently includes WOOD THRUSH, LINCOLN’S SPARROW, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and various warblers including ORANGE-CROWNED plus NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, OVENBIRD, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE, CAPE MAY, BLACKPOLL and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT.
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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