- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 23, 2021 * NYNY2104.23
- Birds mentioned WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER HARLEQUIN DUCK Eastern Whip-poor-will Ruby-throated Hummingbird UPLAND SANDPIPER WHIMBREL Least Sandpiper Iceland Gull CASPIAN TERN Tricolored Heron CATTLE EGRET Broad-winged Hawk Red-headed Woodpecker Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Red-eyed Vireo Veery Wood Thrush EVENING GROSBEAK Red Crossbill Vesper Sparrow Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler KENTUCKY WARBLER Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak BLUE GROSBEAK - 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, April 23rd 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN TANAGER, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK and a nice variety of spring migrants including UPLAND SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL, CASPIAN TERN, CATTLE EGRET, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, KENTUCKY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, EVENING GROSBEAK, BLUE GROSBEAK and much more. Finally some decent movement this spring taking some pressure off the female WESTERN TANAGER as the best rarity around. The TANAGER was still present through yesterday at Carl Schurz Park still visiting the feeder array inside the park off East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street in Manhattan. But chances are these feeders may be removed soon. Also among the lingering winter birds a subadult male KING EIDER was still present today at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and at least to Tuesday a female KING plus 3 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were continuing around the Point Lookout jetties on the western side of Jones Inlet. Shorebird highlights this week featured an UPLAND SANDPIPER seen and heard as it flew north from Floyd Bennett Field on Wednesday and a WHIMBREL visited Rockaway Beach Saturday the day after one was seen at Breezy Point. Staten Island last Saturday produced both a CASPIAN TERN and a LEAST SANDPIPER while an ICELAND GULL visited Central Park Reservoir Monday. A CATTLE EGRET was photographed Monday at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens and then at the Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island Tuesday when a TRICOLORED HERON appeared on Long Island. An EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was a nice find in Prospect Park Sunday while BROAD-WINGED HAWKS have arrived locally in numbers with over 1,100 counted moving by Hook Mountain in Rockland County last Monday. RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue along the Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road in Manorville and another was seen at Hunter's Garden in Eastport last Sunday. Among the passerines a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was present in Prospect Park Monday and Tuesday and a KENTUCKY WARBLER found Wednesday in Central Park's north end was still by the Ravine today. Besides the two YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS being seen in the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River another was found in Prospect Park Tuesday followed by one singing in Fort Tryon in northern Manhattan today. Also unusual an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER appeared in Forest Park in Queens Monday and arrivals among the approximately 22 species of warblers seen this week included OVENBIRD, WORM-EATING as of Wednesday, NORTHERN and LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES, BLUE-WINGED, BLACK-AND-WHITE, NASHVILLE, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED, AMERICAN REDSTART, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATED GREEN. A BLUE GROSBEAK spotted at Captree Sunday was followed by another at Bellport Bay Yacht Club Tuesday and a third in Alley Pond Park today. A varied list of new migrants this week included RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER and EASTERN KINGBIRD, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY and WOOD THRUSH, BALTIMORE and ORCHARD ORIOLES and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. A VESPER SPARROW visited Randall's Island Sunday to Tuesday and winter finches moving through included a male EVENING GROSBEAK stopping by Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on Sunday and 2 RED CROSSBILLS visiting Croton Point Park in Westchester on Tuesday. 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/ --
