-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct 29, 2021
* NYNY2110.29
SAY’S PHOEBE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Cackling Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
Red-necked Grebe
American Golden-Plover
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Black-legged Kittiwake
Lesser Black-backed Gull
NORTHERN FULMAR
Cory’s Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
GREAT BLUE HERON (WHITE MORPH)
CATTLE EGRET
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
NORTHERN SHRIKE
European Starling
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Brown-headed Cowbird
BLUE GROSBEAK
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, October 29, 2021 at 10:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SAY’S PHOEBE, NORTHERN FULMAR, NORTHERN SHRIKE, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, CATTLE EGRET, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
The accommodating SAY’S PHOEBE was still present at least through yesterday at Caumsett State Park, still frequenting the fences around the corral area between the parking lots and the tree line to the north. Another surprise at that site was the brief appearance Saturday afternoon of a NORTHERN STRIKE, photographed before it disappeared, and perhaps the same SHRIKE photographed west of there on Thursday morning at Pryibil Beach off Eastland Drive in Glen Cove.
This second storm event in a row that we are currently experiencing produced some nice birds today on the ocean off Robert Moses State Park, the highlight being a NORTHERN FULMAR this afternoon moving west off Field 2. Most of the other birds, generally moving east on the strong winds, included 32 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES and some not well seen SHEARWATERS that appeared to be four CORY’S and a MANX. Five KITTIWAKES were also spotted this afternoon off Coney Island in Brooklyn. A RED-NECKED GREBE was a flyby at Moses Park yesterday.
A female-type YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was still being seen at least to Monday around the Nickerson Beach area, usually with BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS and some EUROPEAN STARLINGS.
As an update, the GREAT “WHITE” HERON has not been seen at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye since Wednesday and may have moved on.
A drake EURASIAN WIGEON spotted Monday on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was still present north of the Raunt yesterday, and another drake has returned to Mill Pond in Oyster Bay as of Wednesday, hopefully to stay for the winter. The drake KING EIDER, acquiring nice plumage, was still at Midland Beach on Staten Island on Tuesday. Other recently arriving waterfowl included a CACKLING GOOSE visiting Caumsett yesterday.
At least one MARBLED GODWIT appeared on the bar off the Coast Guard station at Jones Beach West End today, with two there Sunday, and three HUDSONIAN GODWITS were still on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond Monday.
Other shorebirds include the AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER continuing at Floyd Bennett Field and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER at Santapogue Creek in West Babylon last weekend.
A huge count of LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS during the previous storm Tuesday totaled 310 at Robert Moses State Park.
A CATTLE EGRET was seen at Shirley Chisholm State Park last Saturday, and a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, missed on last week’s tape, was photographed over Bay Shore back on the 18th.
A male WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL photographed at Jones Beach West End today was a nice surprise, as were two LAPLAND LONGSPURS moving by Moses Park today.
A good assortment of SPARROWS this week featured single CLAY COLOREDS in Central Park and at Jones Beach West End Monday, single GRASSHOPPERS at Floyd Bennett Field and the Sands Point Preserve Sunday, and over 15 VESPERS scattered among numerous locations.
A very accommodating YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT found Tuesday at Verizon Plaza a half block west of Bryant Park in mid-Manhattan was still present today.
A BLUE GROSBEAK was still in Stony Brook Sunday, and at least four DICKCISSELS were noted during the week.
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
