-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 16, 2021 * NYNY2104.16
WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER HARLEQUIN DUCK SANDHILL CRANE Solitary Sandpiper Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Green Heron Broad-winged Hawk RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Pileated Woodpecker White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Bank Swallow House Wren Purple Finch Pine Siskin Vesper Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Boat-tailed Grackle Louisiana Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Common Yellowthroat Northern Parula Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Wilson’s Warbler Indigo 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, April16, 2021 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WESTERN TANAGER, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, YELLOW-THROATED and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, spring migrants and more. Despite generally poor weather conditions for local migration, spring arrivals are making their way into and through our area. However, our highlight continues to be the female WESTERN TANAGER wintering in Manhattan's Carl Schurz Park, seen mostly when visiting the feeder area in the park located just east of East End Avenue and just south of East 86th Street. The lingering ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER there was also still present today, usually encountered along the northern edge of the park where it borders with Gracie Mansion, the latter strictly off limits. Adding to a few reports recently, another SANDHILL CRANE was spotted Tuesday moving north along the Hudson River over Garrison up in Putnam County. Ducks continuing around the jetties at Point Lookout on the west side of Jones Inlet included three KING EIDERS, two immature males and a female, plus a few HARLEQUIN DUCKS earlier this week, but they will presumably be leaving soon. This scenario also likely holds for the adult ICELAND GULL spotted yesterday in Brooklyn at the Austin Nichols House and then today at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, including an adult, were photographed at Pelham Bay Park yesterday. Last Saturday two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen again along the Paumanok Trail in Manorville, and another was still frequenting Cedar Point County Park out in Northwest Harbor, north of East Hampton, but more unexpected were single PILEATED WOODPECKERS showing up Wednesday in Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan and at Pelham Bay Park. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues on territory at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, but unexpected was an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER visiting a feeder Sunday in Hastings-on-Hudson. Among the other WARBLERS seen this week were an early WILSON’S found in Central Park on Wednesday, BLACK-AND-WHITE starting with one at Blydenburgh Park in Central Islip last Sunday, arriving COMMON YELLOWTHROATS as of Thursday, some more NORTHERN PARULAS and LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES, and increasing numbers of PALM, PINE and YELLOW-RUMPED. Some migrants occurring this week featured SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREEN HERON and BROAD-WINGED HAWK, while various passerines noted locally included YELLOW-THROATED VIREO as of Monday and WHITE-EYED VIREO beginning Wednesday, plus more BLUE-HEADED VIREOS and HOUSE WRENS, BANK SWALLOW in Great River Monday, and INDIGO BUNTING as of Tuesday at Owl’s Head Park in Brooklyn. A VESPER SPARROW visited Central Park’s north end Tuesday and Wednesday, with a wintering LINCOLN’S SPARROW also still in that area. A male BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye on Tuesday has continued this species’ now annual visits to Westchester County. With most now departed from our area, currently winter finches are represented here by only a few lingering PINE SISKINS and some PURPLE FINCHES moving through. 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 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
