-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Mar. 09, 2018 * NYNY1803.09
- Birds Mentioned PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) ROSS’S GOOSE EURASIAN WIGEON TUFTED DUCK Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Red-necked Grebe Black Vulture Osprey American Woodcock Razorbill BLACK-HEADED GULL Laughing Gull ICELAND GULL Lesser Black-backed Gull GLAUCOUS GULL Snowy Owl Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Chipping Sparrow Saltmarsh Sparrow 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: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 9, 2018 at 9:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are PINK-FOOTED and ROSS’S GEESE, TUFTED DUCK and EURASIAN WIGEON, BLACK-HEADED, GLAUCOUS and ICELAND GULLS and a few arrivals. Continuing its stay (but for how much longer?), the PINK-FOOTED GOOSE was still being seen last Sunday on the pastures at Deep Hollow Ranch on the south side of Route 27 east of the town of Montauk. A ROSS’S GOOSE was still noted over last weekend in the Riverhead area on fields south of Middle Road west of the Northville Turnpike; oddly, at one point on Saturday afternoon it was apparently the only bird there. The drake TUFTED DUCK reappeared on Playland Lake in Rye last Tuesday, the only day it has been seen there since the initial sighting on March 1st. Interestingly, the two days seen were each on the day before a nor’easter hit our area, so there might be mixed feelings regarding its appearing there again. The composition of the number of ducks, especially the GREATER and LESSER SCAUP flocks, has remained consistent, so the TUFTED’s whereabouts is a mystery. A continuing drake EURASIAN WIGEON was noted at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn at least to Wednesday, and another was reported again Monday at Mill Creek on Staten Island. An immature BLACK-HEADED GULL noted Saturday and Sunday in Brooklyn at the middle parking lot off the Belt Parkway at Gravesend Bay was perhaps the same immature spotted Monday through Wednesday at the Salt Marsh Nature Center. Also in Brooklyn, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was photographed at Coney Island Creek on Wednesday. A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted Saturday on the north fork at Dam Pond in East Marion, and on Tuesday single ICELAND GULLS occurred at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn and off Playland Park in Rye. LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS featured one at Robert Moses State Park Monday and one Sunday at Montauk Point, where a RAZORBILL was also spotted. RED-NECKED GREBES early in the week included one Saturday still at the Alley Pond Park Restoration Pond in Queens, one Sunday on Prospect Park Lake, and on Tuesday one at the Salt Marsh Nature Center and one at Point Lookout. Up to three BLACK VULTURES remain near the Roanoke Avenue Elementary School in Riverhead, and eight were counted over Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan last Saturday. A few SNOWY OWLS also still continue in the region. Among the arrivals, AMERICAN WOODCOCK are now displaying, when the weather permits, and also appearing in odd sites like Bryant Park in mid-Manhattan, where they are surprisingly regular in early spring. Some other early migrant reports this week have mentioned OSPREY, LAUGHING GULL, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, PALM and PINE WARBLERS, and CHIPPING and SALTMARSH SPARROWS. To phone in reports, on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734 4126 or call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a message. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling. - End transcript <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- 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/ --
