-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Jan. 20, 2017 * NYNY1701.20
- Birds Mentioned PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+ BARNACLE GOOSE+ COMMON MURRE+ THICK-BILLED MURRE+ ATLANTIC PUFFIN+ TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE+ PAINTED BUNTING+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Greater White-fronted Goose ROSS’S GOOSE Canada Goose Tundra Swan Eurasian Wigeon KING EIDER Common Eider Harlequin Duck Common Goldeneye BARROW’S GOLDENEYE EARED GREBE NORTHERN FULMAR Northern Gannet Rough-legged Hawk SANDHILL CRANE DOVEKIE Razorbill Black-legged Kittiwake BLACK-HEADED GULL Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Red-headed Woodpecker Lapland Longspur Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat 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 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, January 20, 2017 at 7:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results including ATLANTIC PUFFIN, DOVEKIE, COMMON MURRE and NORTHERN FULMAR, plus TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE, PAINTED BUNTING, SANDHILL CRANE, THICK-BILLED MURRE, EARED GREBE, PINK-FOOTED, BARNACLE and ROSS’S GEESE, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER, BLACK-HEADED GULL and more. The rescheduled See Life Paulagics trip left Sheepshead Bay last Saturday morning aboard the Brooklyn VI and in moderate seas enjoyed a nice selection of winter pelagics. Highlights for the trip included 120 RAZORBILLS, 13 COMMON MURRES, 4 ATLANTIC PUFFINS and 165 DOVEKIES, 4 NORTHERN FULMARS, 20 NORTHERN GANNETS, 125 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES, and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. The TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE was still being seen on Long Island’s north fork as of Wednesday. Look for the SOLITAIRE along North Sea Drive, northwest of Southold, especially in the vicinity of blue house #1625 North Sea Drive, where it has been perching on power lines as well as feeding in the cedars along the roadside. The female plumaged PAINTED BUTING continued at least to Thursday on Staten Island in Annadale, usually seen feeding in weeds and grasses at the end of Arden Avenue near Ocean Drive, this site approached from Hylan Boulevard. The SANDHILL CRANE has remained in Wainscott on the south fork at least through Thursday, often around the north end of Wainscott Pond as best viewed from Wainscott Main Road. The PINK-FOOTED GOOSE is still visiting Hendrickson Park in Valley Stream through today, while the BARNACLE GOOSE has recently more often been located at Pinelawn or St. Charles Cemetery or on the adjacent golf course rather than on its traditional overnight roost to the east of there on the lake at Belmont Lake State Park. A ROSS’S GOOSE was also identified at St. Charles Cemetery today as well as earlier this week, and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was reported from St. Charles on Monday, with 1 also continuing around Hook Pond in East Hampton and another still in the Rye-Port Chester area in southern Westchester, moving around with CANADA GEESE. A drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE has returned to Sand’s Point, this almost entirely private area accessed best from Sands Point Preserve, which has a $10 entrance fee. Park and walk along the beach towards Prospect Point to the west, scanning the COMMON GOLDENEYE flocks for the BARROW’S. A female KING EIDER was spotted Wednesday in a COMMON EIDER flock on the north fork at Orient Point County Park; 3 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were also there. Other HARLEQUINS included 1 off Eaton’s Neck in Valley Grove Saturday and one or more continuing near the Shinnecock jetties. Drake EURASIAN WIGEONS include 1 seen again Monday at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Marine Park, Brooklyn, 1 at Crab Meadow Beach in Northport Saturday, and 1 continuing on Pepperidge Lake in Eastport or nearby Eastport Lake off Montauk Highway. Two TUNDRA SWANS were still on Lake Ronkonkoma today. An influx of BLACK-HEADED GULLS this week has featured an adult at Coney Island Creek, Brooklyn, Sunday and an adult at Little Reed Pond in Montauk last weekend, as well as the adult at Cammanns Pond in Merrick, this perhaps also the one feeding Sunday off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard bar, and the continuing Westchester bird at Five Islands Park in New Rochelle or at nearby Premium Mill Pond in Larchmont. Noteworthy reports from Point Lookout include an EARED GREBE near the jetties Saturday and a THICK-BILLED MURRE today moving west past the jetties and later seen off Nickerson Beach. Check coastal Gull flocks for GLAUCOUS and ICELAND, 2 of the latter of which were at Bush Terminal Piers Park today. YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS this week were noted at Dreier-Offerman Park Sunday to Thursday, at the Salt Marsh Nature Center with 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS Sunday, and at Jones Beach West End Monday. Four LAPLAND LONGSPURS were at Jones Beach West End Sunday, with a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK near the Meadowbrook Parkway. The RED CROSSBILL was still at Midland Beach Staten Island last Sunday, and some RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue at previously mentioned sites. To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483 on weekdays. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. 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