– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 29, 2021
* NYNY2101.29
– Birds mentioned
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
MEW GULL+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Snowy Owl
EVENING GROSBEAK
COMMON REDPOLL
RED CROSSBILL
PINE SISKIN
Orange-crowned Warbler
Extralimital:
FERRUGINOUS HAWK+ (Orange County)
Not reported:
SPOTTED TOWHEE+
– 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, January 29th 2021 at 10pm. The highlights of today’s tape are extralimital FERRUGINOUS HAWK, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, MEW GULL, WESTERN TANAGER, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, winter finches and more.
The immature FERRUGINOUS HAWK spending time recently in the Black Dirt section of Orange County to our north was present at least through yesterday hunting over a large area mostly bordered on the west by Lynch Avenue and Pierce Circle Road and Onion Avenue and on the north by Maple Avenue and crossroad over to Pulaski Highway. Please respect private roads in the area and don’t disturb the farming activities or enter the fields.
Last weekend on the North Fork Winter Bird Count a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE was spotted on the restricted Veteran’s Administration Golf Course in Northport and was still noted at that location Monday but with no reports since. The golf course at Veteran’s Administration complex, located off Middleville Road, requires special permission for entry. While the golf course can be seen from Middleville Road it is an obstructed view and the road itself has no parking areas in that vicinity. Checking the roosting geese at Sunken Meadow State Park just east of there could be profitable.
An immature MEW GULL, of the European race canus, was found yesterday among Ring-billed Gulls feeding around Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 and reported again there today. This site has also recently been attracting an immature BLACK-HEADED GULL.
In Manhattan the WESTERN TANAGER visiting Carl Schurz Park located at East End Avenue around East 86th Street has been more difficult to find recently as it wanders around a bit but was still in the area yesterday as was the ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER hanging out near Gracie Mansion.
As a note we have no recent information on the SPOTTED TOWHEE visiting Baldwin Harbor Park but it very likely could still be present.
A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE continues to visit Central Park often on the lake but also appearing with Canada Geese on the reservoir. This bird was overshadowed in the park Wednesday with the appearance of a SNOWY OWL fortunately choosing a fenced in ballfield in the park’s north end as its roosting spot. Single GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were also noted on Tung Ting Pond in Centerport Sunday and on Playland Lake in Rye today. A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was still on Fresh Pond in Fort Salonga today and another was at Bayswater Park in Queens Monday. A drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE continues off Crab Meadow Beach in Fort Salonga with a female off Cedar Point County Park out in Northwest Harbor Saturday. A few HARLEQUIN DUCKS continue around Jones Inlet with a female remaining at Shinnecock Inlet while KING EIDERS include a female at Floyd Bennett Field to Tuesday, one again at Great Kills Park Thursday and a young male at Bayshore Marina yesterday and today.
Single GLAUCOUS GULLS were at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island Sunday, at the Red Hook section of Brooklyn at least to Tuesday and at Crab Meadow Beach Sunday where 3 ICELAND GULLS were also present with another ICELAND at Randall’s Island recently.
Also the upcoming storm may push more winter finches our way as currently we are enjoying small scattered numbers of RED CROSSBILL, EVENING GROSBEAK, COMMON REDPOLL and PINE SISKIN.
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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