- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 30, 2021 * NYNY2104.30
- Birds mentioned WHITE-FACED IBIS+ BURROWING OWL+ BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Iceland Gull Common Tern CATTLE EGRET Green Heron GOLDEN EAGLE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Olive-sided Flycatcher EVENING GROSBEAK Purple Finch RED CROSSBILL Pine Siskin CLAY-COLORED SPARROW Bobolink Worm-eating Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Nashville Warbler KENTUCKY WARBLER Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Cerulean Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler SUMMER TANAGER Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak BLUE GROSBEAK Indigo Bunting - Transcript 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: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, April 30th 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are BURROWING OWL, BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, WHITE-FACED IBIS, KING EIDER, GOLDEN EAGLE, CATTLE EGRET, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, KENTUCKY WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, EVENING GROSBEAK, RED CROSSBILL and much more. Two quite unexpected reports, both occurring last Wednesday but surfacing in unusual ways, were a BURROWING OWL photographed on a fence at the Lowe's in King's Plaza off Avenue U in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and a BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER described from the Tobay Sanctuary off Ocean Parkway. Despite searching neither bird has been relocated. An adult WHITE-FACED IBIS appeared today with a good sized group of Glossy Ibis in the marsh north of Captree Island. Please respect private property if looking for this bird. Lingering KING EIDER included a female off Riis Park Sunday and a male still at Great Kills Park on Staten Island Tuesday. An immature GOLDEN EAGLE was a nice surprise Wednesday passing over an informal hawkwatch conducted next to Alley Creek at the north end of Alley Pond Park. Also interesting was a CATTLE EGRET appearing at Pelham Bay Park Sunday evening. Some movement of RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS today produced adults in Prospect Park and at Sunset Cove Park in Far Rockaway while a pair remains along Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road in Manorville. An ICELAND GULL visited Rockaway Beach Wednesday and both YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS began appearing in Central Park this week. And finally, a week with some nicely diversified movement among the passerines despite continual barrage of northwest winds. Noteworthy birds included a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW visiting a Montrose home in Westchester County last Tuesday. A fine selection of warblers this week included PROTHONOTARYS lingering in Prospect Park to today, at Hempstead Lake State Park Sunday and Monday and another seen at Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens and one today on Randall's Island. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS also appeared at Ridgewood Reservoir last Sunday and then in Central Park Tuesday through today as well as at Bush Terminal Piers Park on Thursday while a KENTUCKY WARBLER in Central Park's north end to Saturday was replaced by another near mid-park Sunday to Tuesday. Other new and increasing warblers this week featured WORM-EATING, NASHVILLE, HOODED, CAPE MAY, one or two CERULEAN, MAGNOLIA, BLACKBURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKPOLL, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATEDS BLUE and GREEN. A few SUMMER TANAGERS this week featured appearances in Central and Prospect Parks from Wednesday as well as at Bayard Cutting Arboretum from Tuesday and Green-wood Cemetery today. BLUE GROSBEAKS were spotted at Pelham Bay Park last Saturday and Alley Pond Park Sunday to Tuesday and in Central Park's Ramble today. Other recent arrivals have included COMMON TERN, GREEN HERON, an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER in Central Park Thursday, BOBOLINK, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK and INDIGO BUNTING. And also coming through have been some winter finches returning north including several EVENING GROSBEAKS visiting the city parks along with some scattered RED CROSSBILLS, PINE SISKINS and PURPLE FINCHES. Good variety. 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/ --
