New York City RBA
March 21, 2008
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- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* March 21, 2008
* NYNY0803.21
- Birds Mentioned:
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
BARNACLE GOOSE+ [not reported this week]
BLACK-NECKED STILT+ [not reported this week]
Tundra Swan
Eurasian Wigeon
King Eider
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Common Goldeneye
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Northern Gannet
Osprey
American Oystercatcher
Purple Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Short-eared Owl
Eastern Phoebe
Northern Shrike
Purple Martin
Pine Warbler
Ovenbird
Rusty Blackbird
Red Crossbill
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 nysarc1@nybirds.org .
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy
reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy
documentation should be mailed to:
Jeanne Skelly - Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
420 Chili-Scottsville Rd.
Churchville, NY 14428
~ Transcript ~
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070
To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 297-4804 (during the day except
Sunday)
Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126 (Long Island)
Compilers: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester
County
Transcriber: Karen Fung
[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for
Friday, March 21st at 2:00 p.m. The highlights of
today's tape are EARED GREBE, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE,
TUNDRA SWAN, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN
DUCK, NORTHERN SHRIKE, and RED CROSSBILL.
Last Sunday an EARED GREBE in winter plumage was
spotted off Cedar Beach. The EARED stayed close
offshore with a half dozen or more HORNED GREBES for a
nice study of the structural as well as plumage
differences between the two species. With some HORNED
GREBES now molting into breeding plumage, the plumage
differences can become much less obvious. Through
mid-day Sunday, the grebes remained close off the
beach just a little west of being directly in front of
the pavilion at the main Cedar Beach parking lot. A
drake HARLEQUIN DUCK and various expected seabirds
were also offshore there.
On Saturday a drake EURASIAN WIGEON was found at
Tobay, on the west end of the pond mixed in with a
good congregation of ducks. Another EURASIAN WIGEON
was still present Sunday on the large Massapequa
Preserve pond that is just north of Merrick Road. The
Massapequa Preserve pond adjacent to the eastern end
of Pittsburgh Avenue Sunday featured eight LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHERS and three WILSON'S SNIPE.
At Point Lookout Sunday afternoon a feeding frenzy of
2000+ NORTHERN GANNETS west of Jones Inlet was quite a
spectacle, and five AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS were on
the beach there, this species now appearing at most
locations along the south shore of Long Island.
A PINE WARBLER was heard singing at Hempstead Lake
State Park Sunday, and EASTERN PHOEBES are appearing
now at many locations.
Moving east, though missed by most birders looking for
it since the 12th, there is an Internet report of the
Stony Brook PINK-FOOTED GOOSE being seen yesterday
afternoon. Look for it on the mill pond on the west
side of Main Street in Stony Brook, just south of
Harbor Road.
At the former Grumman airport property in Calverton at
least two SHORT-EARED OWLS were still present Tuesday,
and a NORTHERN SHRIKE was spotted there on Sunday.
Four TUNDRA SWANS seem to have been drifting around
the South Fork last weekend appearing in Sagaponack on
Saturday, and on Sunday at Sag Harbor Golf Course on
Barcelona Neck, where seven RED CROSSBILLS were also
encountered.
The two BLACK-NECKED STILTS last Friday at Hook Pond
in East Hampton were not seen again despite some
searching Saturday and Sunday.
Off the main beach in the town of Montauk Sunday a
congregation of scoters and COMMON EIDER also
contained a drake KING EIDER, plus two immature males
and an apparent female KING.
Montauk Point still features an impressive
congregation of many thousands of scoters and a few
hundred COMMON EIDER, with more COMMONS also off Ditch
Plains.
At Culloden Point two RED-NECKED GREBES were present
Sunday.
Three WILSON'S SNIPE were at the Roosevelt County Park
Sunday, but there was no sign of the BARNACLE GOOSE at
adjacent Deep Hollow Ranch.
Some PURPLE SANDPIPERS remain in the Montauk area,
eight AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS were in Accabonac, and a
RUSTY BLACKBIRD was in Montauk Sunday, with an OSPREY
in Riverhead the same day.
Recent arrivals include a PURPLE MARTIN on Fire Island
today, and an OVENBIRD in Prospect Park yesterday.
In Central Park the first of several EASTERN PHOEBES
arrived Monday, a COMMON GOLDENEYE visited the
Reservoir Tuesday, and some AMERICAN WOODCOCK have
been moving through the park. Now that it's finally
Spring, many more migrants should be on their way.
To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at
(631) 734-4126, or during the day except Sunday call
Tom Burke at (212) 297-4804. This service is
sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
[~ END TAPE ~]
~ End Transcript ~
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