-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Mar. 02, 2018 * NYNY1803.02
- Birds Mentioned PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+ MEW GULL+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) ROSS’S GOOSE Cackling Goose TUNDRA SWAN EURASIAN WIGEON TUFTED DUCK Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup KING EIDER Red-necked Grebe EARED GREBE American Woodcock Bonaparte’s Gull BLACK-HEADED GULL LITTLE GULL Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Osprey Eastern Phoebe Orange-crowned Warbler 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 2, 2018 at 8:00 pm. [Recorded late due to storm complications.] The highlights of today’s tape are MEW, LITTLE, and BLACK-HEADED GULLS, PINK-FOOTED and ROSS’S GEESE, TUFTED DUCK, KING EIDER and EURASIAN WIGEON, a TUNDRA SWAN invasion, EARED GREBE and more. Perhaps the only beneficial impact of this recent storm was the discovery of an adult MEW GULL Friday morning at Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn, found at the middle parking lot off the Belt Parkway among a gathering of Gulls. An adult LITTLE GULL has continued at least to mid-week in a BONAPARTE’S GULL flock off Ditch Plains east of the town of Montauk. Two sightings of BLACK-HEADED GULL in Brooklyn included an immature at the Gravesend Bay middle parking lot on Monday and an adult at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center on Tuesday. To complete the Gulls, an adult ICELAND GULL visited the Central Park reservoir Monday and Tuesday, and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was at Crab Meadow Beach in Northport last Sunday. The PINK-FOOTED GOOSE out in Montauk was still being seen at least to Thursday on the fields at Deep Hollow Ranch on the south side of Route 27. A ROSS’S GOOSE spent the week out in the Riverhead area, using fields on the south side of Middle Road west of Northville Turnpike, and four CACKLING GEESE were reported from Miller Field on Staten Island last weekend. A very impressive incursion of TUNDRA SWANS into our region commenced last Saturday with a couple of flocks totaling over 40 birds seen from Floyd Bennett Field as they dropped into Jamaica Bay for a while. Also Saturday morning roughly 150 cruised over an astonished group of birders at Playland Park in Rye. Other larger numbers included 48 at Canarsie Pier and 64 plus in Rye Sunday followed by 24 on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and roughly 100 over Canarsie Pier on Monday. Smaller groups occurring farther east on Long Island included 20 plus over Dix Hills and 4 at Hicksville Sunday, while 6 were even reported over the Bronx Zoo Monday. All this was quite unusual, the Swans apparently pushed much more easterly as they headed north - we are normally treated to just one or two in a spring season. On Thursday, a drake TUFTED DUCK was found in a mixed flock of LESSER and GREATER SCAUP on Playland Lake in Rye, but it could not be relocated once the storm arrived. At Shinnecock a young male KING EIDER was seen last Sunday, followed by a female there Tuesday, and another female was still at Orient Point Thursday. Single Brooklyn EURASIAN WIGEON males were seen off the Brooklyn waterfront by BJ’s Tuesday and at Bush Terminal Piers Park Wednesday. The Fire Island inlet EARED GREBE was still present off the west end of Oak Beach Road last Sunday, while the RED-NECKED GREBE continues on the Alley Pond Park Restoration Pond. The RED-NECKED GREBE on Lake Ronkonkoma was last noted last Saturday, but a good variety of waterfowl continues there. A couple of ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were reported from the New York Botanical Garden last Saturday, and recent arrivals, besides the now displaying AMERICAN WOODCOCK, have included OSPREY as of Thursday and EASTERN PHOEBE, with two in Central Park Friday. 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. 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