-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Mar. 14, 2025 * NYNY2503.14
- Birds Mentioned SWAINSON’S HAWK+ (+Details requested by NYSARC) GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE KING EIDER BARROW’S GOLDENEYE HARLEQUIN DUCK Red-necked Grebe Piping Plover Razorbill BLACK-HEADED GULL Laughing Gull Herring-type Gull (yellow-legged) GLAUCOUS GULL Lesser Black-backed Gull Iceland Gull Double-crested Cormorant Red-headed Woodpecker LAPLAND LONGSPUR CLAY-COLORED SPARROW VESPER SPARROW PAINTED 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, March 14, 2025 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are PAINTED BUNTING, SWAINSON’S HAWK, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS and the enigmatic Herring-type Gull, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY COLORED and VESPER SPARROWS and more. The female PAINTED BUNTING, last noted February 2nd in Far Rockaway but perhaps not looked for very extensively, was relocated last Saturday in the same area, as was the often-accompanying CLAY-COLORED SPARROW. Both birds have continued along the beach front area though have moved somewhat from the previous regular site that was between Beach 26th and 27th Streets. Both remain in the brushy areas just inland from the boardwalk along the beach, but today the Bunting was near the end of Beach 20th Street, while the Sparrow was east of Beach 24th Street. Checking the stretch from Beach 20th to 27th Streets carefully should hopefully produce the birds. Another CLAY-COLORED SPARROW has been present since Sunday in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn near the Dell Water The adult SWAINSON’S HAWK in Brooklyn was spotted Saturday morning over the Greenwood Heights area it also had visited the evening before but has not been reported since. A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE visited Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn from last Saturday through Wednesday, while today a likely different individual appeared on Prospect Park Lake, good records for the County. The wintering WHITE-FRONTED in southern Westchester was still on the Bowman Avenue Pond in Rye Brook Monday, and another was seen again on the Reeves Avenue Buffalo Farm north of Riverhead on Wednesday. A drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE off Old Field Point and Lighthouse was noted to Monday, with a young male still at Great Pond in Southold Wednesday, and a female HARLEQUIN DUCK was still being seen off Coney Island Beach Wednesday, while a female KING EIDER has continued off the Mt. Loretto Unique Area at least to Tuesday. Single BLACK-HEADED GULLS were still around Plumb Beach and Point Lookout Saturday, with one at Old Field Point to Thursday, where the yellow-legged Herring Gull also continues to attract attention but needs further analysis to determine its specific identification. A young GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted at the New Creek watershed on Staten Island Tuesday, a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS continue locally, and ICELAND GULLS were noted Tuesday from Fort Tryon Park, Old Field Point and east of Smith Point County Park. A RAZORBILL seen Saturday flying towards the inlet from Floyd Bennett Field may have been the same one off Coney Island Monday, when a RED-NECKED GREBE was also spotted from Floyd Bennett. Lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS feature one still in Green-Wood Cemetery today, another continuing at Sunken Meadow State Park, and one on territory along the Paumanok Trail by Jones Pond, off Schultz Road in Manorville. A small group of LAPLAND LONGSPURS hanging around Jones Beach West End recently has included up to eight individuals at least to Thursday, and four VESPER SPARROWS were counted off Hulse Landing Road in Calverton Wednesday. As a note, there have been no reports of the NORTHERN LAPWING in the Bridgehampton area since last Friday the 7th, but recent arrivals have included PIPING PLOVER, LAUGHING GULL and DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 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 -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
