- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 13, 2018 * NYNY1804.13
- Birds mentioned BRANT (dark-bellied) KING EIDER Red-necked Grebe Tricolored Heron Broad-winged Hawk SANDHILL CRANE LITTLE GULL ICELAND GULL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL CASPIAN TERN Barn Owl Chimney Swift Blue-headed Vireo Purple Martin Louisiana Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler Northern Parula YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER VESPER SPARROW - 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 Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro 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 13th 2018 at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SANDHILL CRANE, LITTLE GULL, Dark-bellied BRANT, KING EIDER, ICELAND GULL, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and some spring arrivals including CASPIAN TERN, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER and VESPER SPARROW. Last Saturday morning in Yaphank a SANDHILL CRANE was found at the Suffolk County Farm off Yaphank Avenue moving off to another location during the day and doing the same routine on Sunday. On Monday morning two additional CRANES appeared overhead and the sitting bird took flight and headed off with them. At Wolfe's Pond Park on Staten Island last Wednesday three different LITTLE GULLS were present. One in very high breeding plumage. These birds keeping company with a decent gathering of Bonaparte's Gulls likely have been in the same area since the initial sightings at the end of March at Wolfe's Pond. Very interesting was the spotting of an apparent nicely marked dark-bellied BRANT at the Six Diamonds Ballfields in Brooklyn Thursday morning. This mainly Siberian nominate form of BRANT is extremely rare in the northeast and was well photographed as it fed on the ballfields with some Atlantic BRANT this site just east of Calvert Vaux Park. The young male KING EIDER was spotted Wednesday among the large raft of Common Eider still around Shinnecock Inlet. Lingering gulls include an ICELAND at Wolfe's Pond Park Tuesday and single LESSER BLACK-BACKEDS reported today from Avalon Gardens in Stony Brook, at Sagg Pond in Bridgehampton and at Montauk Point. Following reports, the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER from last Saturday at Pelham Bay Park and at Connetquot River State Park today's front brought in a few more with at least 2 in Central Park, 1 at Owl's Head Park in Brooklyn and another sighting at Pelham Bay. Other recent additions to the local warblers have included BLACK-AND-WHITE as of last Saturday and NORTHERN PARULA today but decent numbers of LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES are also appearing. A CASPIAN TERN visited the Croton train station today. The VESPER SPARROW found in Central Park's north end last Saturday was still around Wednesday and 2 were seen at the Suffolk County Farm on Monday. A surprising visitor to Central Park has been a BARN OWL roosting there since Monday. Among the recent migrants arriving in the area have been TRICOLORED HERON at Little Reed Pond in Montauk this afternoon, BROAD-WINGED HAWK Wednesday, CHIMNEY SWIFT today, BLUE-HEADED VIREO in Forest Park last Saturday and more PURPLE MARTINS. Lingering RED-NECKED GREBES include 2 in Gravesend Bay yesterday and 1 still on the Alley Pond Park Restoration Pond Wednesday. To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or 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/ --