– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 8, 2024
* NYNY2411.08
– Birds mentioned
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
WOOD STORK+
SAGE THRASHER+
BULLOCK’S ORIOLE+
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Long-billed Dowitcher
White-rumped Sandpiper
Black-legged Kittiwake
Caspian Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Rough-legged Hawk
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER
WESTERN KINGBIRD
RED CROSSBILL
Pine Siskin
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
– Transcript
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: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, November 8th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SAGE THRASHER, BULLOCK’S
ORIOLE, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, TOWNSEND’S WARBLER, WOOD STORK, AMERICAN WHITE
PELICAN, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, EURASIAN WIGEON,
HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED CROSSBILL, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED
SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD and more.
This morning out at Robert Moses State Park a SAGE THRASHER was found at
field 5 and though it disappeared for a while it was refound at dusk along
the northern edge of the parking lot a little east of the toll booths.
There’s nothing to determine whether this is the same individual as the
earlier Fire Island record at Smith Point County Park on October 22nd.
The male BULLOCK’S ORIOLE at Stillwell Woods Park in Woodbury was last
reported on Wednesday but it still may be worth checking the fruiting trees
east of the ballfields.
A female type RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was spotted last Saturday visiting feeders
out in Eastport, Suffolk County and has continued there through today. The
homeowner is very graciously permitting birders to view the feeders located
behind their house. The address is 353 Old Country Road. Visitors should
park on Union Street just east of the house and walk back to 353 entering
the yard carefully near shrubs marked by streamers to view the feeders.
The TOWNSEND’S WARBLER in Bay Ridge Brooklyn has not been reported since
Tuesday. To check the site look around 85th Street just west of 3rd Avenue.
The Staten Island WOOD STORK previously visiting North Mount Loretto State
Forest was last reported apparently back on October 29th but it appears a
different immature was photographed today at Blue Heron Park in Annadale
seen on Blue Heron Pond west of Barkley Avenue.
An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN spotted flying over the William Floyd Estate in
Mastic Beach last Saturday was a different individual from the one
frequenting the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge still reported
there today. Other Jamaica Bay birds this week included at least one drake
EURASIAN WIGEON usually seen on the East Pond but also reported from the
West Pond Thursday plus low shorebird numbers still including LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER along with CASPIAN TERN there on
Wednesday and a report of LAPLAND LONGSPUR Monday.
An ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was reported from the Sparrow Bowl in Prospect
Park last Saturday with a VESPER SPARROW also in the park that day.
A WESTERN KINGBIRD has spent the week at Jones Beach West End usually seen
near the inner turnaround and another was at Bush Terminal Piers Park in
Brooklyn yesterday and today.
Two HARLEQUIN DUCKS were back at Orient Point County Park as of Tuesday.
A good showing of shearwaters still lingering around Montauk Point last
weekend include a decent number of CORY’S with SCOPOLI’S also possibly
mixed in. Good luck with that. Similar numbers of GREAT and at least one
SOOTY and a couple of MANX. BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was also seen and 58
PINE SISKINS were counted Saturday.
Six RED CROSSBILLS were reported Thursday over the Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch
in Bedford with a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK there Sunday.
A LARK SPARROW visited the Fire Island hawkwatch site at Robert Moses State
Park last weekend and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were at Fort Tilden Saturday
and Prospect Park Sunday among others.
Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were noted in Brooklyn this week including one in
Prospect today and a male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was spotted flying west
over Jones Beach West End with Red-wingeds Thursday morning.
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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