-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 15, 2024
* NYNY2403.15
– Birds Mentioned
WESTERN GREBE+
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
PAINTED BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, EURASIAN FORM
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Clapper Rail
Piping Plover
Long-billed Dowitcher
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Great Egret
Eastern Phoebe
Orange-crowned Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
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 15,
2024 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, PAINTED
BUNTING, WESTERN GREBE, THICK-BILLED MURRE, EURASIAN FORM OF
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS,
recent arrivals and more.
The Prospect Park RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD has continued through today,
still hanging out around the hummingbird feeder and nearby flowering
honeysuckle plants near the hairpin turn on the Prospect Park Lake
side of Breeze Hill.
The female-type PAINTED BUNTING was still present yesterday at
Hempstead Lake State Park, where it has been frequenting the grassy
slope down from Lake Drive at the southern end of Hempstead Lake.
Park in Field 3 across from the southwest corner of Hempstead Lake and
take the path below the down slope, checking the heavy grasses along
the slope as far as McDonald’s Pond and watching for the often
accompanying sparrow flock.
The WESTERN GREBE recently off the south end of Staten Island was seen
nicely yesterday off Conference House Park, moving slowly northward
towards Tottenville. When not off Conference House Park, it has also
previously been spotted off the Tottenville train station at the end
of Bentley Street .
Last Sunday a THICK-BILLED MURRE was photographed up on the beach at
Jones Beach West End just east of the jetty, the bird presumably not
doing well.
Single drake EURASIAN forms of GREEN-WINGED TEAL were spotted at the
East Islip Marina off Bayview Avenue on Saturday and then on Shorts
Pond off Scuttlehole Road in Manorville on Monday, the latter a
continuing bird.
The HARLEQUIN DUCKS wintering in Jones Inlet still numbered about 22
around the Jones Beach West End jetty last Sunday, with 12 at the
Point Lookout jetties Wednesday, and two were still at Orient Point
yesterday.
Jones’s Inlet also has two lingering young BLACK-HEADED GULLS, often
seen up to yesterday along the West End beach, and an adult continues
in the Setauket area, seen at Flax Pond in Old Field Wednesday.
A young GLAUCOUS GULL was still around Hunts Point Landing in the
Bronx last Sunday, and another visited Wolfe’s Pond Park on Staten
Island Thursday. Wolfe’s Pond also attracted an ICELAND GULL last
Sunday, with another ICELAND appearing at Manhattan Beach Park in
Brooklyn Tuesday.
Lower numbers of RAZORBILLS still can be found along the outer coast.
Three LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS continue to be seen around the southeast
corner of the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
Recent arrivals have included a few CLAPPER RAILS, some PIPING PLOVERS
along the coast out to East Hampton, some GREAT EGRETS and more
EASTERN PHOEBES.
Several ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS have continued through the winter, and
there have been several reports of PINE and PALM WARBLERS recently.
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