-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 14, 2025
* NYNY2503.14
– Birds Mentioned
SWAINSON’S HAWK+
(+Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
KING EIDER
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Red-necked Grebe
Piping Plover
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Laughing Gull
Herring-type Gull (yellow-legged)
GLAUCOUS GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Iceland Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Red-headed Woodpecker
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED 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, March 14,
2025 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are PAINTED BUNTING, SWAINSON’S HAWK,
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER and
HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS and the enigmatic
Herring-type Gull, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY COLORED and VESPER SPARROWS
and more.
The female PAINTED BUNTING, last noted February 2nd in Far Rockaway
but perhaps not looked for very extensively, was relocated last
Saturday in the same area, as was the often-accompanying CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW. Both birds have continued along the beach front area though
have moved somewhat from the previous regular site that was between
Beach 26th and 27th Streets. Both remain in the brushy areas just
inland from the boardwalk along the beach, but today the Bunting was
near the end of Beach 20th Street, while the Sparrow was east of Beach
24th Street. Checking the stretch from Beach 20th to 27th Streets
carefully should hopefully produce the birds. Another CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW has been present since Sunday in Green-Wood Cemetery in
Brooklyn near the Dell Water
The adult SWAINSON’S HAWK in Brooklyn was spotted Saturday morning
over the Greenwood Heights area it also had visited the evening before
but has not been reported since.
A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE visited Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn
from last Saturday through Wednesday, while today a likely different
individual appeared on Prospect Park Lake, good records for the
County. The wintering WHITE-FRONTED in southern Westchester was still
on the Bowman Avenue Pond in Rye Brook Monday, and another was seen
again on the Reeves Avenue Buffalo Farm north of Riverhead on
Wednesday.
A drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE off Old Field Point and Lighthouse was
noted to Monday, with a young male still at Great Pond in Southold
Wednesday, and a female HARLEQUIN DUCK was still being seen off Coney
Island Beach Wednesday, while a female KING EIDER has continued off
the Mt. Loretto Unique Area at least to Tuesday.
Single BLACK-HEADED GULLS were still around Plumb Beach and Point
Lookout Saturday, with one at Old Field Point to Thursday, where the
yellow-legged Herring Gull also continues to attract attention but
needs further analysis to determine its specific identification. A
young GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted at the New Creek watershed on Staten
Island Tuesday, a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS continue locally, and
ICELAND GULLS were noted Tuesday from Fort Tryon Park, Old Field Point
and east of Smith Point County Park.
A RAZORBILL seen Saturday flying towards the inlet from Floyd Bennett
Field may have been the same one off Coney Island Monday, when a
RED-NECKED GREBE was also spotted from Floyd Bennett.
Lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS feature one still in Green-Wood
Cemetery today, another continuing at Sunken Meadow State Park, and
one on territory along the Paumanok Trail by Jones Pond, off Schultz
Road in Manorville.
A small group of LAPLAND LONGSPURS hanging around Jones Beach West End
recently has included up to eight individuals at least to Thursday,
and four VESPER SPARROWS were counted off Hulse Landing Road in
Calverton Wednesday.
As a note, there have been no reports of the NORTHERN LAPWING in the
Bridgehampton area since last Friday the 7th, but recent arrivals have
included PIPING PLOVER, LAUGHING GULL and DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT.
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.
– End transcript