[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 31 December 2009

[Ben Cacace]

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Dec. 31, 2009
* NYNY0912.31

- Birds mentioned

MEW GULL+
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
TUNDRA SWAN
Northern Gannet
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Goshawk
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
American Woodcock
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
DOVEKIE
Razorbill
BLACK GUILLEMOT
Long-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Eastern Phoebe
Common Raven
House Wren
Pine Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
Chipping Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole

- Transcript

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You can also send reports and digital image files via email to
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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

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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, December 31st
2009 at 5pm. The highlights of today's tape are MEW GULL, BLACK GUILLEMOT,
DOVEKIE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, TUNDRA SWAN, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, RUFOUS
HUMMINGBIRD and SUMMER TANAGER.

Last Saturday in miserable weather a MEW GULL was found roosting on a ball
field at Bensonhurst Park in Brooklyn. This gull, perhaps the same
individual present in Brooklyn back in April 2007, appears to be the
European subspecies known as Common Gull and has been present along the
Gravesend Bay waterfront at least through Wednesday. To look for the gull
the best option would seem to be to park in a rest area lot accessed off the
eastbound Belt Parkway that is just west of Bensonhurst Park and the Kohl's
Shopping Center [Caesar's Bay Bazaar] and adjacent to 20th Avenue. The gull
has been seen at a few locations west of this lot up to a footbridge that
crosses over the Belt Parkway just west of Bay 16th Street. A promenade
along the water provides viewing access to Gravesend Bay. Watch for flocking
Ring-billed Gulls and it has been suggested that 2 hours before high tide
might be a good time to search.

A very interesting apparently high eastern Canadian Arctic form of BLACK
GUILLEMOT found on the 19th off the north section of Southampton was still
present off the end of Sebonic Inlet Road on Wednesday. This impressively
white individual has been staying near the narrow channel connecting Bull's
Head Bay with Peconic Bay. But the channel has recently been choking up with
ice jams. When open this site provides wonderful views of the guillemot. To
reach this site from Route 27 in Southampton College go north on Tuckahoe
Road, pick up Sebonic Inlet Road and take it to its end at the inlet which
is just east of the road. The guillemot is often with Long-tailed Duck and
Bufflehead.

A small wreck of DOVEKIES occurred on eastern Long Island last Sunday due to
the storm with 3 individuals found from Hither Hills State Park to West
Hampton. These birds were rescued and returned to the ocean and another was
seen off the west jetty at Shinnecock Inlet Monday. An adult BLACK-HEADED
GULL, inadvertently left off last week's tape, was also seen with
Bonaparte's at Shinnecock Inlet back on the 24th.

The Northern Nassau Christmas Count last Saturday netted 100 species
featuring LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, GREEN HERON, 2 AMERICAN WOODCOCK, HOUSE
WREN, 2 CHIPPING SPARROWS and the 2 COMMON RAVENS in Roslyn Harbor in count
period.

The Bronx/Westchester Count Sunday among its 117 species recorded 2 NORTHERN
GANNETS, 2 BLACK VULTURES, 4 BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN GOSHAWKS, 3 CLAPPER RAILS
and 5 VIRGINIA RAILS, 2 AMERICAN WOODCOCK, 2 LONG-EARED OWLS and 1 NORTHERN
SAW-WHET OWL, HOUSE WREN, SALTMARSH SPARROW, 4 BALTIMORE ORIOLES and 2
COMMON RAVENS seen by 3 parties as they moved down the Hudson.

The Smithtown Count Sunday recorded NORTHERN GANNET, GLAUCOUS GULL and
RAZORBILL.

The Staten Island Count back on the 19th among its 110 species recorded
CACKLING GOOSE, TUNDRA SWAN, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD last seen on the 24th and
the SUMMER TANAGER still at Clove Lakes Park Monday.

Six GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE visited Belmont Lake State Park last Friday
and recent TUNDRA SWANS include 2 at Massapequa Preserve in the pond off
Pittsburgh Avenue last Friday and 1 at Connequot River State Park last
Thursday where there was also EASTERN PHOEBE and PINE WARBLER.

A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was on the ice at Wolfe's Pond Par

Re: [nysbirds-l] orange collared canada goose

[Jason Pietrzak]

Dan,

I have recorded numbers from similarly banded Canada Geese in the Bayville
area. The place to report your numbers is here:

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/homepage/recwobnd.cfm

The USGS gets the reports to the appropriate parties and they are supposed
to contact you with info. I reported a handful of birds a couple weeks ago
and have yet to receive a reply though... I will report to the list if
anything does come through.

Regards,

Jason Pietrzak
Bayville, NY



On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:39 PM,  wrote:

>  My wife and i were able to get the numbers off a canada goose in the
> creek by the Shoreham powerplant Shoreham NY..orange colored hy91  any
> info email me direct ...Dan Heglundemail dan...@aol.comthanks
>

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[nysbirds-l] orange collared canada goose

[DanoR4]

My wife and i were able to get the numbers off a canada goose in the creek  
by the Shoreham powerplant Shoreham NY..orange colored hy91  any info  
email me direct ...Dan Heglundemail _dan...@aol.com_ 
(mailto:dan...@aol.com)  thanks

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[nysbirds-l] Hudson-Mohawk Birdline

[David Martin]

This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending December 23

Report your sightings  to birdl...@hmbc.net.

Seventy-one species were reported this week.
plus partial results (1 section missing) from the Southern Rensselaer CBC.

The most interesting reports were:

NORTHERN GOSHAWK: SRCBC (2).
MERLIN: Coxsackie 12/28.
ICELAND GULL: Coxsackie Boat Launch 12/29; SRCBC.
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL: Crescent 12/28 (2).
GLAUCOUS GULL: Crescent 12/28; SRCBC.
SHORT-EARED OWL: Minden (Montgomery Co.) 12/24 (2).
HORNED LARK: SRCBC (Poestenkill) (~500).
HERMIT THRUSH: South Glens Falls 12/27.

Other highlights:

Snow Goose: SRCBC

Ruffed Grouse: SRCBC

Wild Turkey: SRCBC (107).

Common Loon: Lake George 12/24 (2).

Bald Eagle: South Glens Falls 12/27; SRCBC.

Northern Harrier: Coxsackie 12/28; SRCBC (6).

Cooper's Hawk: Troy 12/28; SRCBC (6).
Rough-legged Hawk: Duanesburg 12/23.

Eastern Screech-Owl: SRCBC.

Great Horned Owl: East Greenbush 12/25 (2); Jonesville 12/28; SRCBC.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: SRCBC

Northern Flicker: SRCBC (3).

Common Raven: Lake George 12/24; SRCBC (2).

Carolina Wren: South Glens Falls 12/27; SRCBC (3).

Eastern Bluebird: SRCBC (30).

Northern Mockingbird: Colonie 12/27; Troy 12/28; SRCBC (2).

Cedar Waxwing: SRCBC (44).

Savannah Sparrow: SRCBC.

Snow Bunting: Duanesburg 12/23 (~50).

Purple Finch: SRCBC (2).

Common Redpoll: SRCBC (3).

Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Mark Claydon (Glenville), Lindsey 
Duval (South Glens Falls), David Harrison (Crescent), Heidi Klinowski 
(Troy), Eric Krantz (Lake George), Priscilla Leonard (Jonesville), 
George Steele (Duanesburg, Florida, Minden), Chad Witko (Coxsackie, 
Coxsackie Boat Launch) and Donna Zimmerman (Colonie).



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[nysbirds-l] 7 Woodpecker sp. on a snowy morning

[ttbirding]

The Red-headed Woodpecker continues at Rockerfeller State Park, Westchester 
County at
the intersection of the Overlook Trail and the Ash Tree Loop along with all the 
other usual suspect woodpeckers in the general area.

Bird On
Evan

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Mew Gull Description

[Shaibal Mitra]

Although I only deduced his name later, I'm sure Vincent was the fellow who 
notified several of us that the "Common" Mew Gull was present on the rocks near 
the pedestrian bridge around 3:30.

We walked north and found the bird right where Vincent told us it would be. We 
studied it briefly there and then at greater length a couple of hundred yards 
to the south, after we inadvertently spooked its flock.

This was an adult, as indicated by the immaculate tail, primaries with bold 
white mirrors and tips, and absence of black on the bill. Furthermore, details 
of the shape and color pattern of its bill, the pattern of its wingtips (e.g., 
the extensive black on p8 and the distinctive way that the lightly marked tip 
of p5 lined up with p6 on the folded wing), its relatively pale mantle tone 
(barely darker than that of Ring-billed Gull), and its small overall size leave 
no doubt that this was the same adult "Common" Mew Gull that has been present 
at this site since Shane found it.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore



From: bounce-4898731-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-4898731-11143...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of vincent N 
[v...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 7:58 AM
To: ny bird list
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Mew Gull Description

The Mew Gull I viewed yesterday in Brooklyn was out of the water, 
resting/sleeping on a rock and offering excellent views of its legs at close 
range.  They were colored gray/green not yellow (strongly contrasting with the 
Ring-billed Gulls).  Using the large Sibley's guide, P. 213, I concluded that 
this was a 2nd winter bird.  Any discussion appreciated.

Vincent Nichnadowicz
Princeton Jct., NJ


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[nysbirds-l] Mew Gull Description

[vincent N]

The Mew Gull I viewed yesterday in Brooklyn was out of the water, 
resting/sleeping on a rock and offering excellent views of its legs at close 
range.  They were colored gray/green not yellow (strongly contrasting with the 
Ring-billed Gulls).  Using the large Sibley's guide, P. 213, I concluded that 
this was a 2nd winter bird.  Any discussion appreciated.

 

Vincent Nichnadowicz

Princeton Jct., NJ
  
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