[nysbirds-l] Find out about Construction in Jones Beach West End 2! North Shore Audubon, Tues Jan 28, 7pm

[Nancy Tognan]

The North Shore Audubon Society will hold its monthly program this Tuesday, 
January 28, from 7pm to 9pm, at the Manhasset Public Library, 30 Onderdonk 
Avenue, Manhasset NY 11030.  All are invited, free of charge.

Public transit users:  This location is a half-mile walk from the Manhasset 
LIRR station.

Our presentation will be “Energy and Nature Center at Jones Beach” by George 
Gorman, Jr.   
 Find out about the construction in the Jones Beach West End #2 Parking 
lot! 
 New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, in 
partnership with Long Island Power Authority, is building an Energy and Nature 
Center at West End #2 in Jones Beach State Park.
 George Gorman, Jr. is Regional Director of the New York State Office of 
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.  He was recently promoted to the 
top spot of running all of Long Island's three dozen state parks, preserves, 
historic sites and golf courses, and is in charge of 2,500 employees.  He will 
show diagrams and discuss the Jones Beach project, and will take questions and 
comments at the end of the presentation.

This is a rare opportunity to meet the person in charge of all New York State 
Parks on Long Island.

For more information on NSAS programs and weekly walks, see 
www.northshoreaudubon.org  

Nancy Tognan
Publicity volunteer, North Shore Audubon Society
nancy.tog...@gmail.com 
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[nysbirds-l] Eurasian Wigeon - Centerport, Suffolk

[Christopher Gangemi]

Haven’t seen a report on this in awhile. Still present at the south end of Mill 
Pond. 

Sent from my iPod

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[nysbirds-l] American White Pelican at Sans Souci Lakes (Suffolk) - YES

[John Gluth]

Still present this morning 7:15-7:20, visible from Montauk Highway. 
Unfortunately it swam north through a gap in an old dam to the next pond in the 
‘strand’ that make up the lake, where it could no longer be seen. I then tried 
all vantage points accessible from the north, but it was still not visible. 
Patience will probably be required to see this bird.

John Gluth, sent from my iPhone

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[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 24 January 2020

[Ben Cacace]

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 24, 2020
* NYNY2001.24

- Birds mentioned
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+
BARNACLE GOOSE+
PAINTED BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Red-necked Grebe
Razorbill
Iceland Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE (deceased)
TUNDRA SWAN
Rough-legged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Boat-tailed Grackle
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
Orange-crowned Warbler
VARIED THRUSH

- Transcript

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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, January 24th
2020 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are PAINTED BUNTING, VARIED
THRUSH, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, BARNACLE GOOSE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GOOSE, plus an apparent deceased PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, TUNDRA SWAN, EURASIAN
WIGEON, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, GRASSHOPPER
SPARROW and more.

A female plumaged PAINTED BUNTING at Jones Beach was seen as recently as
Wednesday in the shrubbery around the Children's Playground that is next to
the parking lot for the Gatsby Restaurant. This parking lot is off
eastbound Ocean Parkway just west of the circle around Jones Beach water
tower. Though the Brooklyn Bridge Park BUNTING was not reported this week
the VARIED THRUSH in Prospect Park, after going unobserved for awhile, was
refound Monday and seen daily through today still in the vicinity of the
Nethermead Arches and Ravine.

Yesterday an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was spotted on Mill Pond in Sayville
located on the north side of Montauk Highway. Today the PELICAN was moving
around a bit returning a couple of times to Mill Pond but later in the day
it seems to have settled onto the pond at the San Souci County Nature
Preserve located a little east of Mill Pond but also on the north side of
Montauk Highway.

We have received word of a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE shot by a hunter recently, the
carcass on its way apparently to the American Museum of Natural History.
But we as yet have no details.

BARNACLE GOOSE continues to visits Belmont Lake State Park roosting there
overnight and seen on the lake at various times during the day. Out on
eastern Long Island in the Riverhead area another BARNACLE GOOSE has been
traveling with Canada Geese being seen at a few sites from the Northville
Turnpike on Route 105 sod fields to areas further west including Doctor's
Path around Reeves Avenue and even as far as Hulse Landing Road. Perhaps
more than one BARNACLE GOOSE is involved. Recent GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GEESE include one today with a Snow Goose on Van Cortlandt Park lake in the
Bronx these birds perhaps relocating from the Rye area, a group of 4 on
Amawalk Reservoir in northern Westchester today, one in the Riverhead area
recently and one at Hook Pond in East Hampton earlier in the week. Two
TUNDRA SWANS were also on Hook Pond on Tuesday. A female EURASIAN WIGEON
was spotted again today at Bush Terminal Piers Park and the young male
HARLEQUIN DUCK was still present today in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay with 4
also continuing at Orient Point.

An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL remains around the sand spit off the Jones Beach
West End Coast Guard Station with another still at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Tuesday. ICELAND GULLS were noted this week in Brooklyn around the
Sheepshead and Gravesend Bay area and at the Brooklyn Bridge Park with a
report today also from Central Park Reservoir.

The occasional RAZORBILL has been appearing along the Brooklyn shoreline
and 2 were reported off Pelham Bay Park today with many more along the
Atlantic shore.

Single ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS continue along Ocean Parkway in the Captree area
and around the Riverhead sod fields, a COMMON GALLINULE was still on the
Bellmore Mill Pond Wednesday, a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues in Central
Park's north end and only a few RED-NECKED GREBE reports include singles at
Breezy Point and Brooklyn's Dead Horse Bay and at Montauk's Culloden Point.

Amongst the interesting passerines were a LAPLAND LONGSPUR at Nickerson
Beach last weekend, a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW remaining at Playland Park in
Rye, a female BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE continuing in Central Park's north end
and up to 3 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS together in the Willow Lake section of
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park this week.

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