-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov 24, 2023
* NYNY2311.24
– Birds Mentioned
BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD+
BROWN BOOBY+
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER+
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER+
WESTERN TANAGER+
PAINTED BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
Common Eider
HARLEQUIN DUCK
SANDHILL CRANE
Parasitic Jaeger
DOVEKIE
BLACK GUILLEMOT
Black-legged Kittiwake
Iceland Gull
Cory’s Shearwater
Red-headed Woodpecker
NORTHERN SHRIKE
Horned Lark
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Snow 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
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, November 24, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD, TOWNSEND’S WARBLER, PAINTED BUNTING, WESTERN TANAGER, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, BROWN BOOBY, DOVEKIE, BLACK GUILLEMOT, SANDHILL CRANE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, NORTHERN SHRIKE, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and more.
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The quite accommodating HUMMINGBIRD at Randall’s Island has now been well documented as a BLACK-CHINNED as it continues to visit the feeder and flowering plants at the Urban Farm, which surrounds a public restroom off the Wards Meadow Loop in the southeast section of Randall’s Island. There is a parking area adjacent to this site.
A male TOWNSEND’S WARBLER was seen only briefly but identifiably photographed last Sunday morning in Forest Park, Queens, while out at Montauk Point the same morning an immature-type PAINTED BUNTING popped up in a weedy area at Camp Hero just long enough for photos to be taken before it disappeared. And last Saturday morning a female-type WESTERN TANAGER appeared in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, just west of Green-Wood Cemetery, where it too was captured on film before moving on. None of these three rarities has been reported since.
An ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER spotted at Shirley Chisholm State Park last Saturday was last reported there Monday.
What is likely the long-staying immature BROWN BOOBY around Bayonne, New Jersey, was reported again Tuesday from Brooklyn as viewed from the Shore Road Promenade’s 80th Street overpass adjacent to the Belt Parkway.
Reports from Montauk included two PARASITIC JAEGERS, a DOVEKIE, and one each of ICELAND GULL and BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE on Wednesday and a CORY’S SHEARWATER the prior Saturday. Today a BLACK GUILLEMOT was spotted along the west jetty at Shinnecock Inlet, providing excellent views.
A couple of GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were noted on private Tung Ting Pond in Centerport starting on last Monday, with another last weekend on the pond in Arthur J. Hendrickson Park in Valley Stream, where two CACKLING GEESE have been reported since Monday.
A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was on the main pond near the visitors center at Connetquot River State Park all week, with another seen again Monday on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, these joined by another spotted yesterday out on the North Fork on Marion Lake in East Marion.
A female KING EIDER was sitting with COMMON EIDER on the bar inside Shinnecock Inlet last Saturday, and two HARLEQUIN DUCKS were still at Orient Point Thursday, with a female also off Sunset Cove Park in Broad Channel since last Saturday.
On Monday a SANDHILL CRANE flew over the North Park section of Freshkills Park on Staten Island, the NORTHERN SHRIKE also being reported there through today.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue at Croton Point Park and Marshlands Conservancy in Westchester and out along the Paumanok Trail by Jones Pond in Manorville.
One or two LAPLAND LONGSPURS were present with HORNED LARKS as of Wednesday along Daniels Lane in Sagaponack, with singles also noted at Robert Moses State Park Sunday and Monday, and another with SNOW BUNTINGS at Playland Park in Rye last weekend.
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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