- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 15, 2019
* NYNY1903.15

- Birds mentioned
Red-necked Grebe
Razorbill
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
GLAUCOUS GULL
ICELAND GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
TUNDRA SWAN
EURASIAN WIGEON
GREEN-WINGED TEAL
Blue-winged Teal
HARLEQUIN DUCK
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
American Woodcock
Piping Plover
Wilson's Snipe
Osprey
Eastern Phoebe
Rusty Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Evening Grosbeak
COMMON REDPOLL
Chipping Sparrow
Tree Swallow
Pine Warbler

- Transcript

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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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 15th 2019
at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are TUNDRA SWAN, GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, Eurasian form of GREEN-WINGED TEAL,
HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL,
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, COMMON REDPOLL and spring arrivals.

Ah, the March doldrums when birders anticipation generally well exceeds
realization. With waterfowl now strongly on the move some unusual species
lingering locally have included the two TUNDRA SWANS out on Georgica Pond,
the GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE still in the Rye area of lower Westchester
at least to Tuesday and a CACKLING GOOSE still at Arthur J. Hendrickson
Park in Valley Stream Tuesday. The Brooklyn EURASIAN WIGEON, a drake at the
Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center and a female at Bush Terminal Piers
Park were both still present today while the drake in Rye was still around
Tuesday. A drake Eurasian form of GREEN-WINGED TEAL was seen again at
Santapogue Creek in West Babylon from Saturday to Tuesday. A few HARLEQUIN
DUCKS were still around the Jones Beach West End jetty last weekend with a
pair also continuing around the Moriches Inlet east jetty at Smith Point
County Park to Thursday.

Also noted at Jones Beach West End on Monday were an immature BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKE and a RAZORBILL. An immature BLACK-HEADED GULL was spotted Sunday
at Georgica Pond and a presumably over wintering adult in Oldfield was seen
around the southwestern end of Conscience Bay on Wednesday. A GLAUCOUS GULL
visited Randall's Island Wednesday and another was still at the Bellport
Bay Yacht Club last Saturday. While an ICELAND GULL was seen again at the
Austin Nichols House in Brooklyn Tuesday. At least 4 LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULLS were noted along Long Island's south shore last weekend including at
Jones Beach West End, Heckscher State Park and Shinnecock Inlet. A
RED-NECKED GREBE spotted on Patchogue Lake on Wednesday was still present
today and 2 were off Pelham Bay Park yesterday.

A COMMON REDPOLL was found accompanying a flock of American Goldfinch in
Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery on Wednesday and has continued there through
today. A flock of 8 COMMON REDPOLLS appeared Wednesday near Cross River
Reservoir in northern Westchester but the bulk of the REDPOLLS this winter
have remained well north of our area.

The Riverside Park EVENING GROSBEAK continuing in northern Manhattan for an
unexpectedly long time was last reported on Tuesday but don't despair as
spring migration has begun. Arriving this week has been BLUE-WINGED TEAL,
the first few PIPING PLOVERS, some WILSON'S SNIPE, a couple of OSPREYS and
some of the earlier landbirds including EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW,
CHIPPING SPARROW, BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PINE WARBLER
with more on the way and AMERICAN WOODCOCK are now displaying nicely at
many appropriate locations.

To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or
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

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