Category: Rare Bird Alerts

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 21, 2021
* NYNY2105.21

– Birds mentioned
WESTERN GREBE+
RUFF+
ATLANTIC PUFFIN+
WOOD STORK+
BROWN BOOBY+
BICKNELL’S THRUSH+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW
Common Gallinule
Stilt Sandpiper
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie
Razorbill
ICELAND GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Northern Fulmar
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Least Bittern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK

– 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 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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 21st 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD STORK, RUFF, a NOAA offshore boat report including BROWN BOOBY and ATLANTIC PUFFIN, KING EIDER, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL, GULL-BILLED TERN, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

Of last Friday’s three exceptional rarities only the WOOD STORK was seen subsequently and this only Saturday morning off Baycrest Avenue in West Hampton with no reports of the WESTERN GREBE or BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER. However on Monday and Tuesday a RUFF in changing plumage was photographed on Moriches Island in East Moriches. We have no subsequent reports.

A NOAA research vessel last Saturday made a transect through New York waters 50 or so miles offshore and among the birds recorded were an adult BROWN BOOBY, a PARASITIC JAEGER, 5 DOVEKIES, a RAZORBILL and 9 ATLANTIC PUFFINS, 3 NORTHERN FULMAR, 76 SOOTY and 7 MANX SHEARWATERS and 18 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS.

Lingering KING EIDER included the pair at Great Kills Park last weekend and a female off Nickerson Beach Wednesday to today. Also at Nickerson this week among the Common Terns and Black Skimmers were 2 GULL-BILLED TERNS and a BLACK TERN Wednesday and 1 or 2 ROSEATE TERNS. Another GULL-BILLED TERN was noted Wednesday at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge but surprising on Thursday were a single immature GLAUCOUS and ICELAND GULLS roosting on the mudflats south of the West Pond. A COMMON GALLINULE has also been on the East Pond at the refuge lately. A ROYAL TERN flew by Hewlett Hassock in Hewlett Bay Tuesday.

A LEAST BITTERN was a nice find in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Wednesday and Thursday.

Shorebirds visiting Miller Field in New Dorp on Staten Island recently featured a WILSON’S PHALAROPE on Wednesday and a STILT SANDPIPER Thursday.

A CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW has been heard calling recently near the tip of Breezy Point.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER visited the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester today.

With most of the spring’s migrant warblers hustling through our area in recent days due to the consistently good conditions, numbers locally have been in sharp decline. This week’s rarer warblers did include a YELLOW-THROATED in lower Manhattan’s Canal Park Saturday followed by one in Central Park Sunday as well as the continuing bird at Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River while a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was seen around the lake in Central Park Sunday through Tuesday. A KENTUCKY WARBLER was photographed Monday in Laurel Hollows south of Cold Spring. Also coming through were a nice number of BAY-BREASTED and several MOURNING WARBLERS plus a CERULEAN in Central Park Thursday and an ORANGE-CROWNED reported from Prospect Park last Saturday.

Other migrants have featured OLIVE-SIDED and various empidonax flycatchers including ALDER and ACADIAN and various thrushes including GRAY-CHEEKED / BICKNELL’S types.

A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was photographed Wednesday in Central Park where a couple of SUMMER TANAGERS and up to 3 BLUE GROSBEAKS were present to Tuesday and beyond and there still have been small numbers of PINE SISKINS and PURPLE FINCHES while RED CROSSBILLS included 5 at Hunter’s Garden in Eastport Monday and 2 still along Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville today.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 14, 2021
* NYNY2105.14

WESTERN GREBE+
WOOD STORK+
MISSISSIPPI KITE+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
White-rumped Sandpiper
LITTLE GULL
Iceland Gull
Caspian Tern
Least Bittern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher
EVENING GROSBEAK
Purple Finch
RED CROSSBILL
Pine Siskin
Nelson‘s Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Golden-winged Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK

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, May 14, 2021 at 8:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD STORK, WESTERN GREBE, BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, MISSISSIPPI KITE, LITTLE GULL, KING EIDER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, SUMMER TANAGER, EVENING GROSBEAK, RED CROSSBILL and more.

A good week for rarities, including the WOOD STORK in Westhampton continuing through today.  Though seen regularly along Beaverdam Creek as viewed from Montauk Highway just west of the intersection with Old Country Road and Mill Road, the better viewing has often been in a cove off Baycrest Avenue; Baycrest goes south from Mill Road and dead ends by a favored feeding cove.  Also watch for the Stork perching on docks or in riverside trees.

On Tuesday a large Grebe was spotted in Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn, with photos and analysis now agreeing upon WESTERN GREBE.  The Grebe was still present today, often viewed looking west from the tip of Calvert Vaux Park, but this bird has also been seen, sometimes much more closely, from Coney Island Creek Park on the north side of Seagate.

And today a singing BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER was found out in Calverton in part of the grasslands area known as the Preston Ponds Complex – this section of 3 ponds is south of Grumman Boulevard and west of Line Road, and the bird was seen from a trail on the east side of Forest Pond.  Parking lots are off both roads.

Last Sunday a lucky observer got a brief look at a MISSISSIPPI KITE as it moved over the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, headed in a westerly direction.

A LITTLE GULL was a surprise visitor to Great Gull Island last Tuesday.

The male KING EIDER is still at Great Kills Park, reported there today with a female, and another female KING was a great find off Playland Park in Rye last Saturday.

A LEAST BITTERN was heard in the West Pond marsh at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Monday.  A WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER visited the Captree Island marsh Sunday, an ICELAND GULL was spotted in East Rockaway Tuesday, and single CASPIAN TERNS were reported from Heckscher State Park Saturday and Crab Meadow Beach today.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was at Calvert Vaux Park today.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was seen occasionally in Central Park to Wednesday, and another visited Dam Pond on the North Fork in East Marion today.

A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at Bayard Cutting Arboretum, and another was reported in Central Park Sunday.  An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen again in Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park Tuesday, and, always welcome, a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER appeared at Trout Pond in Noyack last Monday.

Recent BLUE GROSBEAKS included 1 in Central Park to Tuesday, 1 at Hoyt Farm Town Park in Commack to yesterday, and 2 on Governor’s Island today.

Several SUMMER TANAGERS included 3 in Central Park Saturday, 1 today, and 1 in Manhattan’s Morningside Park today.

Some winter flavor continues to be provided by a few EVENING GROSBEAKS visiting Central and Prospect Parks this week, while also noted was a small number of PINE SISKINS and PURPLE FINCHES.  A flock of 8 RED CROSSBILLS was still in Hunter’s Garden Preserve in Eastport today.

New arrivals have included ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and NELSON’S SPARROW, while the large contingent of Warblers now moving through is always a highlight.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 7, 2021
* NYNY2105.07 

WOOD STORK+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW 
Sora
WHIMBREL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
CASPIAN TERN
ROYAL TERN 
Northern Gannet
LEAST BITTERN
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Swainson’s Thrush
EVENING GROSBEAK
Grasshopper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER 
BLUE GROSBEAK 

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, May 7, 2021 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD STORK, WHITE-FACED IBIS, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, KING EIDER, LEAST BITTERN, WHIMBREL, CASPIAN and ROYAL TERNS, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, EVENING GROSBEAK, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

This week’s prize find is certainly the WOOD STORK present through today out in Westhampton. Photographed Monday and Tuesday and perhaps seen the day before, it wasn’t until Thursday that its whereabouts were pinned down.  Both Thursday and today it was located just south of Montauk Highway along Beaverdam Creek just a little west of where Montauk Highway crosses the intersection of Old Country Road to the north and Mill Road on the South side.  The bird apparently has a favored roosting tree and feeds along the creek, and today it was also noted feeding further south down the creek as viewed from the end of Baycrest Avenue on the East side of the creek.

The WHITE-FACED IBIS from last Friday was seen again Saturday and Monday in the Captree Island marshes. 

A CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was a good find in Prospect Park last Saturday as it sat well-camouflaged on the ground.

Among the decent variety of lingering waterfowl were 3 KING EIDER, a young male off Fort Tilden Sunday and two females off Far Rockaway Beach Wednesday.

A LEAST BITTERN  had returned to Arshamomaque Preserve in Greenport West as of yesterday, and among the shorebirds, 3 WHIMBRELS were found at Fort Tilden Saturday.

Very early was a ROYAL TERN spotted at Robert Moses State Park Wednesday, with one also seen at Arshamomaque Preserve the next day, while a CASPIAN TERN visited Croton Point Park last Sunday.

An ICELAND GULL was reported at Heckscher State Park Monday, and a count at Moses Park Wednesday featured 17 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 40 NORTHERN GANNETS.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS moving through included individuals at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn Monday and in Central Park today.

A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was a nice find in Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens yesterday, and other notable migrant SPARROWS lately have included GRASSHOPPER, WHITE-CROWNED and LINCOLN’S.

Highlights among the 30 or so WARBLER species passing through despite the weather conditions this week were a YELLOW-THROATED in Central Park Saturday and a KENTUCKY in Greenwood Cemetery Monday and Tuesday.  A nice push of CERULEAN WARBLERS last Sunday produced reports from Central, Prospect and Riverside Parks, and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was reported during the week from Central and Prospect Parks and Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers.  Other arriving WARBLERS included TENNESSEE, BAY-BREASTED, CANADA and WILSON’S as well as more WORM-EATING, HOODED, CAPE MAY and an overall nice variety.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT occurred in Central Park Tuesday.

SUMMER TANAGER reports included one in Green-Wood Cemetery last Saturday and another at Rockefeller State Park Preserve on Tuesday, while BLUE GROSBEAKS were found in Central Park Sunday and Tuesday, at Robert Moses State Park Wednesday and also out on Eastern Long Island at breeding sites by Thursday.

EVENING GROSBEAKS still visiting city parks this week have been a real treat, with 12 reported in Central Park yesterday.

Other recent arrivals have included COMMON NIGHTHAWK, SORA, YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, WILLOW and LEAST FLYCATCHERS and SWAINSON’S THRUSH.

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

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 30, 2021
* NYNY2104.30

– Birds mentioned
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
BURROWING OWL+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Iceland Gull
Common Tern
CATTLE EGRET
Green Heron
GOLDEN EAGLE
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Olive-sided Flycatcher
EVENING GROSBEAK
Purple Finch
RED CROSSBILL
Pine Siskin
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Bobolink
Worm-eating Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Nashville Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
BLUE GROSBEAK
Indigo Bunting

– 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 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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, April 30th 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BURROWING OWL, BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, WHITE-FACED IBIS, KING EIDER, GOLDEN EAGLE, CATTLE EGRET, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, KENTUCKY WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, EVENING GROSBEAK, RED CROSSBILL and much more.

Two quite unexpected reports, both occurring last Wednesday but surfacing in unusual ways, were a BURROWING OWL photographed on a fence at the Lowe’s in King’s Plaza off Avenue U in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and a BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER described from the Tobay Sanctuary off Ocean Parkway. Despite searching neither bird has been relocated.

An adult WHITE-FACED IBIS appeared today with a good sized group of Glossy Ibis in the marsh north of Captree Island. Please respect private property if looking for this bird.

Lingering KING EIDER included a female off Riis Park Sunday and a male still at Great Kills Park on Staten Island Tuesday.

An immature GOLDEN EAGLE was a nice surprise Wednesday passing over an informal hawkwatch conducted next to Alley Creek at the north end of Alley Pond Park. Also interesting was a CATTLE EGRET appearing at Pelham Bay Park Sunday evening.

Some movement of RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS today produced adults in Prospect Park and at Sunset Cove Park in Far Rockaway while a pair remains along Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road in Manorville. An ICELAND GULL visited Rockaway Beach Wednesday and both YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS began appearing in Central Park this week.

And finally, a week with some nicely diversified movement among the passerines despite continual barrage of northwest winds. Noteworthy birds included a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW visiting a Montrose home in Westchester County last Tuesday. A fine selection of warblers this week included PROTHONOTARYS lingering in Prospect Park to today, at Hempstead Lake State Park Sunday and Monday and another seen at Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens and one today on Randall’s Island. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS also appeared at Ridgewood Reservoir last Sunday and then in Central Park Tuesday through today as well as at Bush Terminal Piers Park on Thursday while a KENTUCKY WARBLER in Central Park’s north end to Saturday was replaced by another near mid-park Sunday to Tuesday. Other new and increasing warblers this week featured WORM-EATING, NASHVILLE, HOODED, CAPE MAY, one or two CERULEAN, MAGNOLIA, BLACKBURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKPOLL, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATEDS BLUE and GREEN.

A few SUMMER TANAGERS this week featured appearances in Central and Prospect Parks from Wednesday as well as at Bayard Cutting Arboretum from Tuesday and Green-wood Cemetery today.

BLUE GROSBEAKS were spotted at Pelham Bay Park last Saturday and Alley Pond Park Sunday to Tuesday and in Central Park’s Ramble today.

Other recent arrivals have included COMMON TERN, GREEN HERON, an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER in Central Park Thursday, BOBOLINK, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK and INDIGO BUNTING.

And also coming through have been some winter finches returning north including several EVENING GROSBEAKS visiting the city parks along with some scattered RED CROSSBILLS, PINE SISKINS and PURPLE FINCHES. Good variety.

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

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 23, 2021
* NYNY2104.23

– Birds mentioned
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
UPLAND SANDPIPER
WHIMBREL
Least Sandpiper
Iceland Gull
CASPIAN TERN
Tricolored Heron
CATTLE EGRET
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Veery
Wood Thrush
EVENING GROSBEAK
Red Crossbill
Vesper Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
BLUE GROSBEAK

– 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 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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, April 23rd 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WESTERN TANAGER, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK and a nice variety of spring migrants including UPLAND SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL, CASPIAN TERN, CATTLE EGRET, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, KENTUCKY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, EVENING GROSBEAK, BLUE GROSBEAK and much more.

Finally some decent movement this spring taking some pressure off the female WESTERN TANAGER as the best rarity around. The TANAGER was still present through yesterday at Carl Schurz Park still visiting the feeder array inside the park off East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street in Manhattan. But chances are these feeders may be removed soon.

Also among the lingering winter birds a subadult male KING EIDER was still present today at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and at least to Tuesday a female KING plus 3 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were continuing around the Point Lookout jetties on the western side of Jones Inlet.

Shorebird highlights this week featured an UPLAND SANDPIPER seen and heard as it flew north from Floyd Bennett Field on Wednesday and a WHIMBREL visited Rockaway Beach Saturday the day after one was seen at Breezy Point.

Staten Island last Saturday produced both a CASPIAN TERN and a LEAST SANDPIPER while an ICELAND GULL visited Central Park Reservoir Monday.

A CATTLE EGRET was photographed Monday at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens and then at the Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island Tuesday when a TRICOLORED HERON appeared on Long Island.

An EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was a nice find in Prospect Park Sunday while BROAD-WINGED HAWKS have arrived locally in numbers with over 1,100 counted moving by Hook Mountain in Rockland County last Monday.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue along the Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road in Manorville and another was seen at Hunter’s Garden in Eastport last Sunday.

Among the passerines a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was present in Prospect Park Monday and Tuesday and a KENTUCKY WARBLER found Wednesday in Central Park’s north end was still by the Ravine today. Besides the two YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS being seen in the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River another was found in Prospect Park Tuesday followed by one singing in Fort Tryon in northern Manhattan today. Also unusual an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER appeared in Forest Park in Queens Monday and arrivals among the approximately 22 species of warblers seen this week included OVENBIRD, WORM-EATING as of Wednesday, NORTHERN and LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES, BLUE-WINGED, BLACK-AND-WHITE, NASHVILLE, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED, AMERICAN REDSTART, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATED GREEN.

A BLUE GROSBEAK spotted at Captree Sunday was followed by another at Bellport Bay Yacht Club Tuesday and a third in Alley Pond Park today.

A varied list of new migrants this week included RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER and EASTERN KINGBIRD, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY and WOOD THRUSH, BALTIMORE and ORCHARD ORIOLES and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK.

A VESPER SPARROW visited Randall’s Island Sunday to Tuesday and winter finches moving through included a male EVENING GROSBEAK stopping by Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on Sunday and 2 RED CROSSBILLS visiting Croton Point Park in Westchester on Tuesday.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 16, 2021
* NYNY2104.16

WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
SANDHILL CRANE
Solitary Sandpiper
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Green Heron
Broad-winged Hawk
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Pileated Woodpecker
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Bank Swallow
House Wren
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
Vesper Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Boat-tailed Grackle
Louisiana Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Parula
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Wilson’s Warbler
Indigo Bunting

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, April16, 2021 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are WESTERN TANAGER, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, YELLOW-THROATED and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, spring migrants and more.

Despite generally poor weather conditions for local migration, spring arrivals are making their way into and through our area.  However, our highlight continues to be the female WESTERN TANAGER wintering in
Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park, seen mostly when visiting the feeder area in the park located just east of East End Avenue and just south of East 86th Street.  The lingering ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER there was
also still present today, usually encountered along the northern edge of the park where it borders with Gracie Mansion, the latter strictly off limits.

Adding to a few reports recently, another SANDHILL CRANE was spotted Tuesday moving north along the Hudson River over Garrison up in Putnam County.

Ducks continuing around the jetties at Point Lookout on the west side of Jones Inlet included three KING EIDERS, two immature males and a female, plus a few HARLEQUIN DUCKS earlier this week, but they will presumably be leaving soon.  This scenario also likely holds for the adult ICELAND GULL spotted yesterday in Brooklyn at the Austin Nichols House and then today at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, including an adult, were photographed at Pelham Bay Park yesterday.

Last Saturday two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen again along the Paumanok Trail in Manorville, and another was still frequenting Cedar Point County Park out in Northwest Harbor, north of East Hampton, but
more unexpected were single PILEATED WOODPECKERS showing up Wednesday in Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan and at Pelham Bay Park.

A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues on territory at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, but unexpected was an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER visiting a feeder Sunday in Hastings-on-Hudson.  Among the other WARBLERS seen this week were an early WILSON’S found in Central Park on Wednesday, BLACK-AND-WHITE starting with one at Blydenburgh Park in Central Islip last Sunday, arriving COMMON YELLOWTHROATS as of Thursday, some more NORTHERN PARULAS and LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES, and increasing numbers of PALM, PINE and YELLOW-RUMPED.

Some migrants occurring this week featured SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREEN HERON and BROAD-WINGED HAWK, while various  passerines noted locally included YELLOW-THROATED VIREO as of Monday and WHITE-EYED VIREO beginning Wednesday, plus more BLUE-HEADED VIREOS and HOUSE WRENS, BANK SWALLOW in Great River Monday, and INDIGO BUNTING as of Tuesday at Owl’s Head Park in Brooklyn.

A VESPER SPARROW visited Central Park’s north end Tuesday and Wednesday, with a wintering LINCOLN’S SPARROW also still in that area.

A male BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE at Marshlands Conservancy  in Rye on Tuesday has continued this species’ now annual visits to Westchester
County.

With most now departed from our area, currently winter finches are represented here by only a few lingering PINE SISKINS and some PURPLE
FINCHES moving through.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 09, 2021
* NYNY2104.09

PROGNE MARTIN+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Clapper Rail
SANDHILL CRANE
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Forster’s Tern
Northern Gannet
Little Blue Heron
Red-headed Woodpecker
Blue-headed Vireo
Cliff Swallow
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Purple Finch
RED CROSSBILL
Pine Siskin
White-crowned Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER

If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at https://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, April 9, 2021 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are the Prospect Park MARTIN, WESTERN TANAGER, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, GLAUCOUS GULL, YELLOW-THROATED and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, RED CROSSBILL, spring migrants and more.

The PROGNE MARTIN first spotted around Prospect Park Lake on Thursday, April 1st, did linger there through mid-day on Sunday, enabling many photos to be taken, but positive specific identification remains uncertain.  Consensus currently seems to be favoring Gray-breasted Martin over the Cuban, Caribbean and Sinaloa Martin group, but much more research needs to be done.  Stay tuned.

The female WESTERN TANAGER, still lingering today in Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park, is usually seen near the feeders located just inside the park on the east side of East End Avenue a little south of East 86^th Street.  The ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER along the south perimeter of Gracie Mansion was still present Wednesday, while another ORANGE-CROWNED was photographed Thursday near the Pool in Central Park.

A SANDHILL CRANE appeared last Sunday over Nannahagen Park in Pleasantville in Westchester County.

Sea ducks at the Point Lookout side of Jones Inlet have recently featured three KING EIDERS, two young males and a female, along with three HARLEQUIN DUCKS, including a drake.  Eighty NORTHERN GANNETS were also counted there today.

White-winged Gulls this week were represented by a GLAUCOUS GULL at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Thursday and single ICELAND GULLS at Prospect Park Lake and Randall’s Island last Sunday, while a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS included three at Jones Beach State Park Sunday.

A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER has returned to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, where it will hopefully stay to nest, and another was found today in Willowbrook Park on Staten Island.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues along the Paumanok Trail in Manorville, parking for which is off Schultz Road near Jones Pond; this site also continues to attract around ten RED CROSSILLS.

Some PINE SISKINS and returning PURPLE FINCHES were also noted this week.

A LINCOLN’S SPARROW continues in Central Park’s north end, while a growing number of spring migrants this week included CLAPPER RAIL, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WILLET, FORSTER’S TERN, LITTLE BLUE HERON, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW, HOUSE and MARSH WRENS, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK.

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

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 2, 2021
* NYNY2104.02

– Birds mentioned
Progne spp. (CUBAN/CARIBBEAN/SINALOA/GRAY-BREASTED MARTIN)+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Chimney Swift
DOVEKIE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
American Bittern
Snowy Egret
Rough-legged Hawk
Purple Martin
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Purple Finch
Common Redpoll
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Chipping Sparrow
Louisiana Waterthrush
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
Northern Parula
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER

– Transcript

If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at https://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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, April 2nd 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are an as yet not specifically identified MARTIN at Prospect Park Lake, WESTERN TANAGER, DOVEKIE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, ORANGE-CROWNED and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, spring migrants and more.

Not an April Fool’s joke but likely one of the year’s highlights. Yesterday a MARTIN was spotted flying around Prospect Park Lake with Tree and other swallows. In close scrutiny then and today as the bird remained around the lake to sunset points to this being not a Purple Martin but either a GRAY-BREASTED MARTIN or one of the formerly Snowy Bellied complex now split into 3 species including CUBAN and CARIBBEAN MARTINS. Further analysis of photos and vocalizations will presumably provide the answer. The MARTIN was found this morning on the west side of the lake roosting in a tree with Tree Swallows and once it started feeding over the lake, usually at a low level, it did cover most of the lake but spent much of its time cruising the southwest corner of the lake. This area is just inside the park from Prospect Park Southwest where a prudent birder would begin a Saturday morning search.

A female WESTERN TANAGER in Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park was still present today as was the wintering ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. The TANAGER is usually seen at the feeders just inside the park on the east side of East End Avenue just below East 86th Street while the warbler remains at the north end of the park along the border with Gracie Mansion.

A storm related occurrence of a DOVEKIE last Saturday at the north end of Georgica Cove and East Hampton ended with the bird swimming away down the cove. A young male KING EIDER was spotted off Robert Moses State Park field 2 last Saturday and today a female KING was reported with Common Eider by the jetties off Point Lookout Town Park with HARLEQUIN DUCKS also continuing there.

An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was spotted at Coney Island Creek last Sunday and a GLAUCOUS GULL appeared again last Saturday at Flax Pond in Old Field north of Stony Brook. An ICELAND GULL was noted at Randall’s Island Monday and Wednesday and on Central Park Reservoir Thursday and a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS included 3 at Jones Beach Tuesday.

An AMERICAN BITTERN continues along Dune Road and another was spotted in marshes at Oakwood Beach on Staten Island last Saturday.

A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was still around Captree Monday.

Lingering winter finches included a couple of COMMON REDPOLLS in Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery Wednesday. RED CROSSBILLS heard off Paumanok Trail by Jones Pond in Manorville last Saturday is a possible nesting area and some PINE SISKINS and PURPLE FINCHES currently moving through.

A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was found at Connetquot River State Park in Great River yesterday and among other returning species this week have been SNOWY EGRET last Saturday, CHIMNEY SWIFT Monday, PURPLE MARTIN and BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER as of Saturday, CHIPPING SPARROW, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH Tuesday and a NORTHERN PARULA found in Central Park Wednesday and still present today.

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

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 26, 2021
* NYNY2103.26

– Birds mentioned
WESTERN SANDPIPER+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
American Oystercatcher
Wilson’s Snipe
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Laughing Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Egret
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
NORTHERN SHRIKE
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Purple Finch
Common Redpoll
RED CROSSBILL
Pine Siskin
Chipping Sparrow
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler

– 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 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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 26th 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are NORTHERN SHRIKE, WESTERN TANAGER, KING EIDER, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, WESTERN SANDPIPER, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, RED CROSSBILL, spring migrants and more.

A newly appearing rarity for the region, a NORTHERN SHRIKE, was spotted last Saturday in the North Forty at Floyd Bennett Field. In typical shrike fashion it did disappear at times during the day and apparently moved on overnight.

In contrast, the female WESTERN TANAGER continues to visit Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan most often seen around the feeders located just inside the park on the east side of East End Avenue just below East 86th Street. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER also remains in that area usually seen in the plantings on the north side of the park adjacent to Gracie Mansion into which property it often disappears. The Chelsea female WESTERN TANAGER was also seen again last Sunday around West 22nd Street east of 10th Avenue. This bird much more difficult to pin down.

With waterfowl numbers declining rather quickly now in our area among the lingering less common species this week were 3 KING EIDERS, a male continuing at Great Kills Park on Staten Island at least to Sunday, a young male in the Shinnecock area to Monday and a female still reported in the Floyd Bennett / Fort Tilden area to Tuesday.

An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL visited Randall’s Island again last Sunday while an immature was seen at Prospect Park Lake Saturday and then again at Bush Terminal Piers Park Tuesday. An immature GLAUCOUS GULL noted by the North Channel Bridge at Jamaica Bay Sunday was preceded by one seen again Saturday out at Oldfield Point north of Stony Brook. Single LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen Sunday at Austin Nichols House in Brooklyn and at Jones Beach. Watch for NORTHERN GANNETS now moving back north along the Atlantic coast.

A WESTERN SANDPIPER seen in a large Dunlin flock out at Jones Beach State Park last Saturday may have been the same individual noted at Lido Beach the week before.

AMERICAN BITTERNS continue to be seen along Dune Road west of Shinnecock Inlet but more unusual was one spotted today at Mountain Lakes Park in North Salem, Westchester County.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS remain along the Paumanok Trail in Manorville this area accessed from Schultz Road next to Jones Pond. The Paumanok Trail also has continued to attract up to 8 RED CROSSBILLS seen through today and perhaps even contemplating nesting there.

Two COMMON REDPOLLS were still being reported in Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery today and some PINE SISKINS continue at regional feeders and elsewhere with some PURPLE FINCHES also returning north.

Breaking the grip of the March doldrums this latest warm weather event has brought in numbers of northbound migrants including AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS and WILSON’S SNIPE, LAUGHING GULL, DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, GREAT EGRET, GLOSSY IBIS, BLACK VULTURE, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED and BARN SWALLOWS, GOLDEN-CROWNED and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, CHIPPING SPARROW, PINE WARBLER and a PALM WARBLER appearing at Randall’s Island today.

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

RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 19, 2021
* NYNY2103.19

– Birds Mentioned

TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE+ (extralimital)
FERRUGINOUS HAWK+ (extralimital)
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Red-necked Grebe
SANDHILL CRANE
Dunlin
WESTERN SANDPIPER
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
American Bittern
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
Orange-crowned Warbler

If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at https://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 19, 2021 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are SANDHILL CRANE, WESTERN TANAGER, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, WESTERN SANDPIPER, extralimital highlights and more.

As the March doldrums continue, signs of imminent migration have been forthcoming, these including 2 SANDHILL CRANES photographed along the Hudson River at Piermont back on March 11th.

However, most of our highlights involve lingering birds, including the female WESTERN TANAGER still at Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan today – this bird is most frequently seen visiting feeders just inside the park east of East End Avenue and a little south of East 86th Street. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER has also resurfaced there, usually noted near the park’s north end next to the Gracie Mansion property.

Among some lingering waterfowl, the young male KING EIDER was still around Shinnecock Inlet today, and two HARLEQUIN DUCKS were off Montauk Point last Saturday.

An immature BLACK-HEADED GULL visited Prospect Park Lake last Saturday and Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 Sunday, while three adults noted last Sunday were spotted at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, at Robert Moses State Park, and at Old Field Point north of Stony Brook.  A GLAUCOUS GULL was also present at Old Field Point and at nearby Flax Pond from Sunday through Wednesday, while fewer LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS recently did include birds this week at Old Field Point and Jones Beach State Park.

A WESTERN SANDPIPER was a nice find in a large flock of DUNLIN at Lido Beach last Saturday.

A RED-NECKED GREBE was seen again Tuesday off Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, and AMERICAN BITTERNS remain at Tobay Sanctuary and along Dune Road west of Shinnecock Inlet.

Small numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS recently included up to 6 at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn through today, 6 at Sands Point Preserve Wednesday, and 3 at Alley Pond Park Tuesday, and some PINE SISKINS also remain in the area.

Among recent arrivals, besides those previously noted, a BARN SWALLOW was spotted  at Heckscher State Park Monday, following one found deceased at Connetquot River State Park back on the 4th, and a NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW joined a large TREE SWALLOW flock off the Croton Point train station today.

And for 2 extralimital birds, both new for New York State if accepted by NYSARC, the FERRUGINOUS HAWK was last reported Saturday from the Orange County black dirt region, while a TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE found last weekend up at Saratoga Lake in Saratoga County was last reported Wednesday, only through a photo taken on private property near Lock 2 south of Mechanicville; hopefully it will reappear.

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