-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Feb. 15, 2019 * NYNY1902.15
- Birds Mentioned BARNACLE GOOSE+ PACIFIC LOON+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE ROSS’S GOOSE Cackling Goose EURASIAN WIGEON Blue-winged Teal HARLEQUIN DUCK Red-necked Grebe Spotted Sandpiper Razorbill BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE Bonaparte’s Gull BLACK-HEADED GULL LITTLE GULL ICELAND GULL Pileated Woodpecker VESPER SPARROW EVENING GROSBEAK 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 Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro 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, February 15, 2019 at 9:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are PACIFIC LOON, BARNACLE, ROSS’S and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, EURASIAN WIGEON, HARLEQUIN DUCK, LITTLE, BLACK-HEADED and ICELAND GULLS, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, VESPER SPARROW and EVENING GROSBEAK. The very enjoyable and accommodating PACIFIC LOON in Oyster Bay was still being seen today near the boat slips and piers at the Sagamore Yacht Club and along the surrounding shoreline. Enter Oyster Bay on Route 106 and continue on South Street, staying to the left at the end by the white tanks to enter the yacht club and adjacent Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park, where a large parking lot is available. A BARNACLE GOOSE continues in the Riverhead area, seen today on the favored sod fields along Route 105 and the Northville Turnpike south of Sound Avenue. This week it has also been seen roosting on Merritts Pond, located east of Roanoke Avenue in Riverhead, this pond mostly surrounded by private homes. A couple of GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were also seen on Merritts Pond Sunday and again Thursday, with one at least also on fields off the Northville Turnpike and as far west as Reeves Avenue during the week, while another continues to circulate around the Rye area in southern Westchester County. Last Saturday evening in Westchester an adult ROSS’S GOOSE flew into the estuary by the Croton Point train station as a nice conclusion to Eagle Fest. The Goose departed early Sunday morning and was conceivably the same individual appearing briefly in Ulster and, later, Orange Counties during the week. A high count of 5 CACKLING GEESE on Merritts Pond in Riverhead last Sunday was unusual for our region, with singles noted from a few other scattered locations. A EURASIAN WIGEON continued at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn for the week. A pair of HARLEQUIN DUCKS continues off Orient Point County Park, and another pair appeared in Moriches Inlet yesterday. An adult LITTLE GULL spotted off the restaurant at Montauk Point last Sunday was still frequenting the same area yesterday in the company of some BONAPARTE’S GULLS. A BLACK-HEADED GULL continued at the south end of Lake Montauk off South Lake Drive at least through Thursday, and another was seen again today at Brooklyn’s Gravesend Bay. A couple of BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES were also seen off Montauk Point Sunday, following 2 at Ditch Plains Saturday. Two ICELAND GULLS were reported in Gravesend Bay last Sunday, with 1 at Calvert Vaux Park Wednesday and another off the northwestern shore of Brooklyn during the week. An ICELAND was also still at Crab Meadow Beach in Fort Salonga Sunday. A RED-NECKED GREBE was off Montauk’s Culloden Point Sunday, and the count of RAZORBILLS off Montauk Point included 9 Sunday and 15 Thursday. Unexpected were a BLUE-WINGED TEAL on Patchogue’s Robinson Pond recently, a PILEATED WOODPECKER in Oyster Bay’s Shu Swamp Sunday, and a SPOTTED SANDPIPER recently at the West Meadow Wetlands Preserve in Stony Brook. VESPER SPARROWS were still being seen during the week at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue, and an EVENING GROSBEAK continues its usually long stay at Riverside Park in northern Manhattan. To phone in reports, on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734 4126 or call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a message. 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