- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Dec. 16, 2022 * NYNY2212.16
- Birds mentioned HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER+ (Sullivan County) TOWNSEND'S WARBLER+ PAINTED BUNTING+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE MARBLED GODWIT Western Sandpiper BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE BLACK-HEADED GULL ICELAND GULL Lesser Black-backed Gull RED CROSSBILL CLAY-COLORED SPARROW LARK SPARROW YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Ovenbird Black-and-white Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler SUMMER TANAGER - 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 (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, December 16th 2022* at 1am. The highlights of today's tape are TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, PAINTED BUNTING, an extralimital HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, MARBLED GODWIT, BLACK-HEADED and ICELAND GULLS and BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, RED CROSSBILL, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER TANAGER and more. Of three excellent rarities in our region recently two seemed to have moved on these being the female plumaged PAINTED BUNTING appearing at the feeders at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area on Thursday the 8th and last reported there last Sunday and the HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER occurring slightly to our north up at Bashakill in Sullivan County found on Friday the 9th and also relocated and photographed the following day. However, one rarity thought to have moved on, as it had not been reported since November 24th, this the TOWNSEND'S WARBLER at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn was relocated there last Saturday and still present Thursday making it into the Christmas Count period and hopefully staying on for the count. The Westchester GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE usually seen on the Bowman Avenue pond in Rye Brook appeared on Playland Lake with some Canada Geese Thursday morning. At least 3 MARBLED GODWITS have continued to Wednesday around the bar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End where other interesting birds last Saturday featured a BLACK-HEADED GULL flying by with some Bonaparte's Gulls and 2 WESTERN SANDPIPERS. Other interesting gulls include Brooklyn ICELAND GULLS with an adult on the East River at the Austin Nichols House last Sunday followed by an immature at Veterans Memorial Pier Tuesday. A few lingering LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS along the coast and a small number of BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES seen most regularly out in the Montauk area. RED CROSSBILLS last weekend featured 4 at Jones Beach West End and singles in Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery and at Heckscher State Park where a LARK SPARROW was seen and nicely photographed on Monday and Tuesday. A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW on private property out in Mattituck reminds us to continue to look over sparrow flocks closely. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was seen Tuesday along Riverside Drive near West 111th Street the same day a SUMMER TANAGER was photographed at Cedar's in Islip. Several late lingering warblers, besides a decent number of ORANGE-CROWNEDS, provides some potential excitement for local Christmas Counts these including OVENBIRD, BLACK-AND-WHITE, NASHVILLE, CAPE MAY, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW and BLACK-THROATED BLUE, so good luck. Please call in count results so we can mention them here. 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/ --
