– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 18, 2022
* NYNY2211.18
– Birds mentioned
MOTTLED DUCK+
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD+
LIMPKIN+ (extralimital)
BROWN BOOBY+
CAVE SWALLOW+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Cackling Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Parasitic Jaeger
Black-legged Kittiwake
Iceland Gull
BROWN PELICAN
Golden Eagle
Evening Grosbeak
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
– 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, November 18th 2022 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD, BLACK-THROATED GRAY and TOWNSEND’S WARBLERS, MOTTLED DUCK, BROWN BOOBY, CAVE SWALLOW, BROWN PELICAN, EURASIAN WIGEON, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, winter finches and more.
The male CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD was still present today in a private yard in Eastport and the homeowners continue to welcome visitors into their backyard to look for this great bird but the weather will likely play a part in the length of its stay. The address is 353 Old Country Road but you should park on Union Avenue just east of the house and walk back west just past the house entering the backyard where indicated by ribbons. Watch the hummingbird feeders by the trellis next to the house as well as the nearby salvia and trees on the west side of the house. Do not enter the fenced area around the house.
Two nice western warblers were found during the week. First the BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER was spotted Tuesday afternoon at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area where it was also noted irregularly on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday a young male TOWNSEND’S WARBLER was found in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park where it continued there through today moving around quite a bit.
The elusive MOTTLED DUCK was reported a few times from Saturday through Tuesday along Ketcham’s Creek Freshwater Wetland in Amityville. Best to look for it from a culvert off Lake Drive just north of Kenmore Avenue or from an opening in the dense phragmites just south of there.
One or two BROWN BOOBYS were still present yesterday in waters off the northwestern shores of Staten Island. Successful sightings have frequently been had scanning the water and offshore structures viewed from Richmond Terrace near the northern terminus of Northfield Avenue. The fall’s second CAVE SWALLOW was spotted moving by Fort Tilden last Monday. A BROWN PELICAN was seen Sunday and Monday around Rockaway Inlet and along the ocean from Long Beach down to Breezy Point. A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was present Thursday and Friday on a Sayville Mill Pond on the north side of North Main Street, Route 85. Another drake WIGEON lingering on the West Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and thought by many to be a hybrid between EURASIAN and AMERICAN WIGEONS. A CACKLING GOOSE visited Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Thursday.
An HUDSONIAN GODWIT was on Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond last Saturday and 4 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were there yesterday. Another HUDSONIAN was seen Monday at Jones Beach West End where up to 5 MARBLED GODWITS have been present recently. Up to 7 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS have been reported along Santapogue Creek in West Babylon recently.
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE and PARASITIC JAEGER were noted last Saturday from both Montauk Point and Orient Point and immature ICELAND GULLS stopped by Breezy Point Saturday.
But expected at inland hawkwatches this time of year signaling more unusual was a GOLDEN EAGLE over Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst on Thursday.
Along with some PINE SISKINS lately other winter finch reports have featured single EVENING GROSBEAKS in Melville Tuesday and Green-wood Cemetery Wednesday and a few RED CROSSBILLS including 3 at Fort Tilden and 8 at Jones Beach West End Monday, 6 at Jones Wednesday and 1 in Prospect Park yesterday. A LAPLAND LONGSPUR flew over Fort Tilden Monday and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found in Babylon today.
The YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was still at Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday.
Extralimitally the LIMPKIN, present recently up in Lewiston, was picked up by a rehabilitator this Friday afternoon so don’t go.
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.
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