[nysbirds-l] Greater White-fronted & Emperor Goose in s. Westchester
The Greater White-fronted Goose that was at the pond south of Bowman Ave. in Rye Brook last winter is back with the Canada Goose flock. One of the Canada Geese has an all black head. The previously reported Emperor Goose in White Plains at the abandoned golf course off Hathaway Lane was not there today even though a large flock of Canada Geese was there. On the pond were many Mallards, some Buffleheads, American Black Ducks, some Hooded Mergansers. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4629 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Greater White-fronted & Emperor Goose in s. Westchester
The Greater White-fronted Goose that was at the pond south of Bowman Ave. in Rye Brook last winter is back with the Canada Goose flock. One of the Canada Geese has an all black head. The previously reported Emperor Goose in White Plains at the abandoned golf course off Hathaway Lane was not there today even though a large flock of Canada Geese was there. On the pond were many Mallards, some Buffleheads, American Black Ducks, some Hooded Mergansers. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4629 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums -- 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/ --
Re: [nysbirds-l] Barnacle Goose and Cackling Goose, Suffolk County
Shaibal Mitra reports the Barnacle Goose is presently at Belmont State Park. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 4:05 PM, Brendan Fogarty wrote: Barnacle still present at 4pm at N end Lake. Brendan On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:45 AM Patricia Lindsay wrote: Shai Mitra reports a Barnacle Goose at Belmont Lake SP and a Cackling Goose at Elda Lake in North Babylon this morning. Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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/ --
Re: [nysbirds-l] Barnacle Goose and Cackling Goose, Suffolk County
Shaibal Mitra reports the Barnacle Goose is presently at Belmont State Park. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 4:05 PM, Brendan Fogarty wrote: Barnacle still present at 4pm at N end Lake. Brendan On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:45 AM Patricia Lindsay wrote: Shai Mitra reports a Barnacle Goose at Belmont Lake SP and a Cackling Goose at Elda Lake in North Babylon this morning. Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 6 December 2019
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Dec. 6, 2019
* NYNY1912.06
- Birds mentioned
BROWN PELICAN+
BARNACLE GOOSE+
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Red-necked Grebe
Razorbill
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
SANDHILL CRANE
American Woodcock
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
Red-headed Woodpecker
Baltimore Oriole
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Lincoln's Sparrow
Nashville Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Wilson's Warbler
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Wood Thrush
Veery
- 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
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, December 6th
2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN PELICAN, SANDHILL
CRANE, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, BARNACLE GOOSE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, HARLEQUIN DUCK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, LAPLAND
LONGSPUR, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and more.
Interestingly BROWN PELICANS continue locally. In Brooklyn an immature
BROWN PELICAN was spotted last Saturday from Manhattan Beach Park and then
on Sunday in the Narrows north of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Out in the
Montauk area there have apparently been 3 young BROWN PELICANS recently.
Due to deteriorating weather conditions, especially as regards to the
continuing well being of these pelicans, local rehabilitators captured
single pelicans on Tuesday and Wednesday. These banded birds, as it turns
out, were both from Beacon Island in North Carolina's Ocracoke Inlet. A
third immature pelican has so far apparently eluded capture near Lake
Montauk.
Yesterday morning a SANDHILL CRANE was spotted at Mill Pond Park in
Bellmore the bird seen flying off with a Great Blue Heron. This park has
also recently hosted a COMMON GALLINULE at least to last Saturday and a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT still present today in the southwest portion of the
park.
Two sightings of ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER last weekend involved one Saturday
in the Riverhead area along Doctor's Path near Reeves Avenue and one Sunday
at Conference House Park at the southern tip of Staten Island. Neither was
reported thereafter.
Last Sunday's storm finally produced some rarer geese locally preceded on
Saturday by thousands of SNOW GEESE moving overhead in large skeins. On
Tuesday a BARNACLE GOOSE was spotted with Canada's on Belmont Lake State
Park in Babylon and was there Wednesday as well. When not roosting here the
BARNACLE historically has joined other geese feeding on golf courses or at
St. Charles Cemetery to the west. Also on Tuesday a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GOOSE was spotted on a pond off Bowman Avenue in Rye Brook this an historic
site for this bird. Also present today these geese are usually off feeding
on local golf courses. Another adult WHITE-FRONTED visited Pelham Bay Park
in the Bronx yesterday and today in the Thomas Pelham Marsh area. Out at
Schmidt's farm in Melville an adult GREATER WHITE-FRONTED and 2
accompanying apparent Canada X WHITE-FRONTED hybrids, presumably this
adults offspring, had been present there for a few days. This site is east
of Pine Lawn Road. Several CACKLING GEESE were reported this week.
A EURASIAN WIGEON was spotted Saturday at a traditional spot along Deep
Hole Creek off New Suffolk Avenue in Mattituck and a HARLEQUIN DUCK was
back off Shell Beach on Shelter Island as of Monday.
An ICELAND GULL on Staten Island Saturday was followed on Sunday by one at
Battery Park on Manhattan and Brooklyn sightings at Coney Island Creek and
Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4. Two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were at Robert
Moses State Park Monday when a RAZORBILL was also spotted offshore there.
Single RED-NECKED GREBES were noted Saturday off Coney Island Creek and
Plumb Beach in Brooklyn and off Staten Island was one seen Sunday off
Battery Park.
This Thursday a light phased ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was photographed along Ocean
Parkway just east of Zach's Bay. An influx of AMERICAN WOODCOCK has taken
place recently due to the latest weather events. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
was still in Central Park's north end today and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was
reported last Saturday near Icehouse Pond in the town of Montauk.
With Christmas Counts coming up rather soon more interest is turning to
some
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 6 December 2019
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Dec. 6, 2019
* NYNY1912.06
- Birds mentioned
BROWN PELICAN+
BARNACLE GOOSE+
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Red-necked Grebe
Razorbill
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
SANDHILL CRANE
American Woodcock
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
Red-headed Woodpecker
Baltimore Oriole
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Lincoln's Sparrow
Nashville Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Wilson's Warbler
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Wood Thrush
Veery
- 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
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, December 6th
2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN PELICAN, SANDHILL
CRANE, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, BARNACLE GOOSE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, HARLEQUIN DUCK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, LAPLAND
LONGSPUR, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and more.
Interestingly BROWN PELICANS continue locally. In Brooklyn an immature
BROWN PELICAN was spotted last Saturday from Manhattan Beach Park and then
on Sunday in the Narrows north of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Out in the
Montauk area there have apparently been 3 young BROWN PELICANS recently.
Due to deteriorating weather conditions, especially as regards to the
continuing well being of these pelicans, local rehabilitators captured
single pelicans on Tuesday and Wednesday. These banded birds, as it turns
out, were both from Beacon Island in North Carolina's Ocracoke Inlet. A
third immature pelican has so far apparently eluded capture near Lake
Montauk.
Yesterday morning a SANDHILL CRANE was spotted at Mill Pond Park in
Bellmore the bird seen flying off with a Great Blue Heron. This park has
also recently hosted a COMMON GALLINULE at least to last Saturday and a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT still present today in the southwest portion of the
park.
Two sightings of ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER last weekend involved one Saturday
in the Riverhead area along Doctor's Path near Reeves Avenue and one Sunday
at Conference House Park at the southern tip of Staten Island. Neither was
reported thereafter.
Last Sunday's storm finally produced some rarer geese locally preceded on
Saturday by thousands of SNOW GEESE moving overhead in large skeins. On
Tuesday a BARNACLE GOOSE was spotted with Canada's on Belmont Lake State
Park in Babylon and was there Wednesday as well. When not roosting here the
BARNACLE historically has joined other geese feeding on golf courses or at
St. Charles Cemetery to the west. Also on Tuesday a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GOOSE was spotted on a pond off Bowman Avenue in Rye Brook this an historic
site for this bird. Also present today these geese are usually off feeding
on local golf courses. Another adult WHITE-FRONTED visited Pelham Bay Park
in the Bronx yesterday and today in the Thomas Pelham Marsh area. Out at
Schmidt's farm in Melville an adult GREATER WHITE-FRONTED and 2
accompanying apparent Canada X WHITE-FRONTED hybrids, presumably this
adults offspring, had been present there for a few days. This site is east
of Pine Lawn Road. Several CACKLING GEESE were reported this week.
A EURASIAN WIGEON was spotted Saturday at a traditional spot along Deep
Hole Creek off New Suffolk Avenue in Mattituck and a HARLEQUIN DUCK was
back off Shell Beach on Shelter Island as of Monday.
An ICELAND GULL on Staten Island Saturday was followed on Sunday by one at
Battery Park on Manhattan and Brooklyn sightings at Coney Island Creek and
Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4. Two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were at Robert
Moses State Park Monday when a RAZORBILL was also spotted offshore there.
Single RED-NECKED GREBES were noted Saturday off Coney Island Creek and
Plumb Beach in Brooklyn and off Staten Island was one seen Sunday off
Battery Park.
This Thursday a light phased ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was photographed along Ocean
Parkway just east of Zach's Bay. An influx of AMERICAN WOODCOCK has taken
place recently due to the latest weather events. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
was still in Central Park's north end today and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was
reported last Saturday near Icehouse Pond in the town of Montauk.
With Christmas Counts coming up rather soon more interest is turning to
some
