-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Mar. 15, 2024 * NYNY2403.15
- Birds Mentioned WESTERN GREBE+ RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+ THICK-BILLED MURRE+ PAINTED BUNTING+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) GREEN-WINGED TEAL, EURASIAN FORM HARLEQUIN DUCK Clapper Rail Piping Plover Long-billed Dowitcher Razorbill BLACK-HEADED GULL Iceland Gull GLAUCOUS GULL Great Egret Eastern Phoebe Orange-crowned Warbler Palm Warbler Pine 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 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, March 15, 2024 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, PAINTED BUNTING, WESTERN GREBE, THICK-BILLED MURRE, EURASIAN FORM OF GREEN-WINGED TEAL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, recent arrivals and more. The Prospect Park RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD has continued through today, still hanging out around the hummingbird feeder and nearby flowering honeysuckle plants near the hairpin turn on the Prospect Park Lake side of Breeze Hill. The female-type PAINTED BUNTING was still present yesterday at Hempstead Lake State Park, where it has been frequenting the grassy slope down from Lake Drive at the southern end of Hempstead Lake. Park in Field 3 across from the southwest corner of Hempstead Lake and take the path below the down slope, checking the heavy grasses along the slope as far as McDonald's Pond and watching for the often accompanying sparrow flock. The WESTERN GREBE recently off the south end of Staten Island was seen nicely yesterday off Conference House Park, moving slowly northward towards Tottenville. When not off Conference House Park, it has also previously been spotted off the Tottenville train station at the end of Bentley Street . Last Sunday a THICK-BILLED MURRE was photographed up on the beach at Jones Beach West End just east of the jetty, the bird presumably not doing well. Single drake EURASIAN forms of GREEN-WINGED TEAL were spotted at the East Islip Marina off Bayview Avenue on Saturday and then on Shorts Pond off Scuttlehole Road in Manorville on Monday, the latter a continuing bird. The HARLEQUIN DUCKS wintering in Jones Inlet still numbered about 22 around the Jones Beach West End jetty last Sunday, with 12 at the Point Lookout jetties Wednesday, and two were still at Orient Point yesterday. Jones's Inlet also has two lingering young BLACK-HEADED GULLS, often seen up to yesterday along the West End beach, and an adult continues in the Setauket area, seen at Flax Pond in Old Field Wednesday. A young GLAUCOUS GULL was still around Hunts Point Landing in the Bronx last Sunday, and another visited Wolfe's Pond Park on Staten Island Thursday. Wolfe's Pond also attracted an ICELAND GULL last Sunday, with another ICELAND appearing at Manhattan Beach Park in Brooklyn Tuesday. Lower numbers of RAZORBILLS still can be found along the outer coast. Three LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS continue to be seen around the southeast corner of the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Recent arrivals have included a few CLAPPER RAILS, some PIPING PLOVERS along the coast out to East Hampton, some GREAT EGRETS and more EASTERN PHOEBES. Several ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS have continued through the winter, and there have been several reports of PINE and PALM WARBLERS recently. 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 -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --