– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 3, 2023
* NYNY2311.03
– Birds mentioned
PURPLE GALLINULE+
HARRIS’S SPARROW+
LECONTE’S SPARROW+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
SANDHILL CRANE
American Golden-Plover
MARBLED GODWIT
Parasitic Jaeger
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Great Shearwater
Northern Gannet
American Bittern
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Golden Eagle
Short-eared Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
American Pipit
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
Lapland Longspur
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
Mourning Warbler
DICKCISSEL
– Transcript
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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 3rd 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are HARRIS’S and LECONTE’S SPARROWS, PURPLE GALLINULE, SANDHILL CRANE, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, MARBLED GODWIT, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.
Last Saturday an immature HARRIS’S SPARROW was spotted in a mixed group of sparrows at Hot Dog Beach along Dune Road in Quogue. Some high water on the roadway at times hampered searching but the HARRIS’S was still findable through Monday though apparently not thereafter. Another nice sparrow find was a LECONTE’S spotted last Monday in the grasslands at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay but this bird could not be relocated on following days.
Immature PURPLE GALLINULE in Prospect Park was present around Prospect Park Lake all week, usually spotted off the peninsula or around the Music Island.
The Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch at the Butler Sanctuary in Bedford and the Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch just south of there at the Audubon Center in northwestern Greenwich have both been enjoying good Fall raptor seasons. Thursday produced 2 SANDHILL CRANES in addition to 3 GOLDEN EAGLES over the Chestnut Ridge watch and 6 SANDHILLS plus another GOLDEN at Quaker Ridge where the season hawk total now exceeds 42,000 with over 36,000 encountered at Chestnut Ridge.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET was reported from Alley Pond Park last Saturday with another on Staten Island in the vicinity of Wolfe’s Pond Park and Mount Loretto from Sunday to Tuesday.
Two AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS continued at Plumb Beach to Tuesday while at Jones Beach West End at least 7 MARBLED GODWITS were still around the inlet off the Coast Guard Station Saturday this number dropping to 2 by Monday.
A seawatch off Fort Tilden Sunday produced 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS and a BLACK TERN as well as 75 ROYAL TERNS and 40 NORTHERN GANNETS and a watch off Robert Moses State Park Wednesday featured a GREAT SHEARWATER and 700 NORTHERN GANNETS.
AMERICAN BITTERNS were noted last weekend at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and along Dune Road with another in Central Park’s Ramble Thursday.
Single migrant SHORT-EARED OWLS were spotted over Fort Washington Park in northern Manhattan Wednesday and over Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers and subsequently at the Pelham Bay landfill Thursday.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS on the move were spotted at Jones Beach West End Saturday and Moses Park Sunday with another visiting Croton Point Park Saturday through at least Thursday.
LAPLAND LONGSPUR was identified at Moses Park Tuesday and besides a few VESPER SPARROWS a LARK SPARROW was still in Green-wood Cemetery Saturday with another at Fort Tilden Thursday, a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at Floyd Bennett Field Saturday was followed by one in Green-wood Cemetery Tuesday to Thursday and another at Croton Point Park today and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW plus a DICKCISSEL were both at the Hallockville Museum Farm in Northville Monday. Other DICKCISSELS included singles at Highbridge Park in northern Manhattan Monday and at Sunken Meadow State Park Monday and Tuesday.
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT continued in Central Park to Saturday and one visited Manhattan Beach Park Monday.
Other migrants this week included PINE SISKIN and PURPLE FINCH, AMERICAN PIPIT, EASTERN BLUEBIRD and some late warblers including several ORANGE-CROWNEDS plus some MOURNING lingering in Battery Park to Wednesday.
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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