-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Nov. 25, 2022 * NYNY2211.25
- Birds Mentioned WHITE-WINGED DOVE+ CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD+ RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+ BROWN BOOBY+ ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER+ TOWNSEND'S WARBLER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Cackling Goose TUNDRA SWAN Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon MARBLED GODWIT Long-billed Dowitcher Black-legged Kittiwake BLACK-HEADED GULL Evening Grosbeak RED CROSSBILL LAPLAND LONGSPUR YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Orange-crowned Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Wilson’s Warbler DICKCISSEL 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: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, November 25, 2022 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD and two SELASPHORUS HUMMINGBIRDS, TOWNSEND’S WARBLER, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, BROWN BOOBY, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and TUNDRA SWAN, BLACK-HEADED GULL, MARBLED GODWIT, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, RED CROSSBILL, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, DICKCISSEL and more. The delightful male CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD at a private home in Eastport has not been seen since Wednesday, and we'd like to thank very much the homeowners for so graciously hosting a throng of grateful birders! Two SELASPHORUS HUMMINGBIRDS also showed up this week, these likely RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRDS, but careful analysis is required to rule out the very similar Allen's Hummingbird, a species still not recorded in New York. Both birds were at private homes, one in Babylon on Monday only, the other up in Rocky Point for the last four days. The TOWNSEND'S WARBLER found November 16th was still present Thursday in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park but was not reported today, though it might still be present. An ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was photographed late morning Thursday in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery but quickly disappeared and has not been relocated. Another quickie was a WHITE-WINGED DOVE photographed while visiting a terrace feeder in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section Tuesday morning before moving on. A BROWN BOOBY was still being seen in waters north of Staten Island as recently as Wednesday. One scanning site that has proven rather successful has been from Richmond Terrace near the northern terminus of Northfield Avenue. A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE had returned to a roosting pond off Bowman Avenue in Rye Brook, Westchester County, as of Sunday, hopefully staying around for the winter. Another was spotted today on Northport High School fields off Laurel Hill Road, possibly continuing there as well, and one is also back at Tung Ting Pond in Centerport. Single CACKLING GEESE included one still at Flushing Meadows Corona Park today and another at Van Cortlandt Park Tuesday through Thursday, while a young TUNDRA SWAN was identified Monday at Jones Beach West End. There seems to be some debate as to whether drake EURASIAN WIGEON – looking ducks at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, the Saltmarsh Nature Center in Brooklyn and on the Sayville Mill Pond are pure EURASIANS or contain some AMERICAN WIGEON genes. A few BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES have been appearing coastally recently, and a BLACK-HEADED GULL has been noted along the East River off Randall’s Island from last Saturday up to Wednesday. As many as five MARBLED GODWITS remain around the bars at Jones Beach West End, and several LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS continue to roost along Santipogue Creek off Venetian Boulevard in West Babylon. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was still visiting Brooklyn Bridge Park Thursday, and late WARBLERS this week included a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS as well as NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, BLACKPOLL and WILSON’S. This week also featured a few scattered RED CROSSBILLS and EVENING GROSBEAKS, a LAPLAND LONGSPUR in Wading River today, and a DICKCISSEL at Battery Park in southern Manhattan last Sunday. 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/ --
