- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 6, 2012 * NYNY1204.06
- Birds mentioned Harlequin Duck Northern Gannet Bald Eagle Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Forster's Tern White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Common Raven Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Yellow-rumped Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Pine Warbler Palm Warbler LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH Yellow-breasted Chat Chipping Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - 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 nysa...@nybirds.org. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Jeanne Skelly - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 420 Chili-Scottsville Rd. Churchville, NY 14428 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 To report sightings call: Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays, during the day) Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 (Long Island) Compiler: Tom Burke, 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 6th 2012 at 10:30pm. The highlights of today's tape are Spring migrants highlighted by YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER and LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was found Thursday at Alley Pond Park in Queens at the park edge at 76th Avenue and Cloverdale Boulevard. The bird was present today at 1pm. There was an excellent migratory movement on Wednesday at Central Park with hundreds of individuals including a remarkable 5 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES, a BLUE-HEADED VIREO, hundreds of HERMIT THRUSHES, many PINE WARBLERS, PALM WARBLERS and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER and VESPER SPARROW. Another excellent fallout of birds occurred also on Wednesday at Jones Beach West End where a migratory flock on the ground near the Coast Guard Station contained 4 PINE WARBLERS, 9 PALM WARBLERS, 4 CHIPPING SPARROWS, a VESPER SPARROW and 80 DARK-EYED JUNCOS. Seen at the adjacent inlet were 53 FORSTER'S TERNS and further east at Captree State Park a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was found. Other interesting sightings last week were as follows: Good numbers of NORTHERN GANNET were noticed at several locations on western Long Island Sound from Rye to Little Neck Bay in Queens with 15 to 25 birds usually found at multiple locations. There were 4 reports of BALD EAGLES: an immature bird at Smith Point County Park last Saturday, an adult at Riverhead also Saturday, an immature at Smithtown on Monday and another immature at Sunken Meadow State Park on Wednesday. A HARLEQUIN DUCK was at the jetties at Point Lookout on Tuesday. An ICELAND GULL on Dune Road near Tiana Beach on Saturday, another ICELAND GULL at Iron Pier Park in Riverhead on Tuesday, a COMMON RAVEN at the water tanks [in Hampton Bays] on Saturday, a WHITE-EYED VIREO at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH at the Alley Pond Park Environmental Center on Saturday and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Saturday at McDonald's Pond at Hempstead Lake State Park. To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483. 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --