– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Feb. 5, 2021
* NYNY2102.05
– Birds mentioned
COMMON MURRE+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
HOARY REDPOLL+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Blue-winged Teal
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
EARED GREBE
Common Gallinule
Black-bellied Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Dunlin
Purple Sandpiper
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Snipe
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Rough-legged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
COMMON REDPOLL
RED CROSSBILL
Chipping Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Rusty Blackbird
Orange-crowned Warbler
Pine Warbler
– 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, February 5th 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON MURRE, THICK-BILLED MURRE, WESTERN TANAGER, LARK SPARROW, HOARY REDPOLL, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, EARED GREBE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, winter finches and more.
As the nor’easter approached our area last Sunday it produced a nice flight of over 80 RAZORBILLS in and around Jones Inlet and even better, reported in the inlet were a THICK-BILLED MURRE spotted off the West End jetty followed later by a COMMON MURRE landing in the inlet as viewed from the Point Lookout side. Also at Point Lookout were 3 HARLEQUIN DUCKS continuing around the jetties there and a good concentration of shorebirds featuring 67 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 3 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 23 RED KNOT, over 1,500 DUNLIN, 54 PURPLE SANDPIPERS and some SANDERLING.
The female WESTERN TANAGER wintering in Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park around East 86th Street and East End Avenue was taking advantage of feeders there today while the ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was closer to Gracie Mansion yesterday.
Last Saturday a LARK SPARROW was found along the western side of the ballfields at Fort Tilden continuing there through Sunday. While following the storm it wasn’t until Thursday that it was again seen in the same area. The storm has also produced small numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS widespread through our area. Up to 30 or more have been concentrated at Croton Point Park in Westchester while a pale individual seen occasionally in the flock on the landfill was thought to be a HOARY REDPOLL.
The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in Central Park recently was seen today on the lake but has also appeared on the reservoir and even on the Great Lawn last Sunday. Another WHITE-FRONTED was seen last Sunday off Sound Avenue in Riverhead east of Doctor’s Path.
The EURASIAN WIGEON was still on Fresh Pond in Fort Salonga yesterday and a drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE continues off Crab Meadow Beach. Single KING EIDER include a young male still in Shinnecock Inlet yesterday and females off Rockaway Beach last Sunday and at the Smith Point Park Marina Wednesday. An EARED GREBE was seen off Joline Avenue Beach on Staten Island last Sunday when 5 RED-NECKED GREBES appeared off Manhattan Beach Park in Brooklyn.
An immature BLACK-HEADED GULL was still around the Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 last Saturday and a GLAUCOUS GULL continued off Red Hook in Brooklyn at least to Wednesday. An ICELAND GULL again visited Central Park Reservoir yesterday and 3 were at Crab Meadow Beach and one at Plumb Beach Sunday.
Also notable from last weekend were a couple of BLUE-WINGED TEAL with a drake on Patchogue Lake and a female on Mill Pond Park in Bellmore where a COMMON GALLINULE continues.
While on Monday Central Park provided WILSON’S SNIPE and AMERICAN WOODCOCK. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were noted this week at the Calverton Grasslands and Croton Point Park. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues along the Paumanok Trail by Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville where about 20 RED CROSSBILLS were seen last Sunday. A VESPER SPARROW was seen in the Calverton Grasslands last Sunday and among some notable passerines lately have been EASTERN PHOEBE, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, CHIPPING and LINCOLN’S SPARROWS, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PINE WARBLER.
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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