-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Feb. 12, 2021
* NYNY2102.12
– Birds Mentioned
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
MEW GULL+
FERRUGINOUS HAWK+
SPOTTED TOWHEE+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
Common Gallinule
Semipalmated Plover
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Rough-legged Hawk
Horned Lark
Common Redpoll
RED CROSSBILL
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
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, February 12, 2021 at 10:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SPOTTED TOWHEE, MEW GULL, WESTERN TANAGER, THICK-BILLED MURRE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK SPARROW, RED CROSSBILL and more, including extralimital FERRUGINOUS HAWK.
Not reported for over two weeks, the female SPOTTED TOWHEE, initially found January 2nd at Baldwin Harbor Park, was seen again last Sunday and also today in essentially the same area, perhaps brought more into the open by recent snow accumulation. Both days the TOWHEE appeared along the paved path that bisects the thicket that is east of the entrance road Grand Avenue and the first of two large parking lots. The second parking lot provides a direct access to this path on its north side.
An immature Mew Gull of the European race canus, referred to as Common Gull, continues in Brooklyn. Seen again last Sunday at Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, this Gull has since Tuesday been visiting the open water in Prospect Park Lake in the afternoon, so far somewhere between 2:00 and 4:30 PM, today arriving about 3:30 PM and leaving an hour later. Another Mew Gull was photographed last Saturday at Orient Beach State Park, this an adult bird.
The female WESTERN TANAGER continues at Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park, sometimes coming to feeders along East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street; three COMMON REDPOLLS also visited that park yesterday.
And we should note, among the rarities, that the FERRUGINOUS HAWK up north in Orange County was still present today.
A THICK-BILLED MURRE appeared off Coney Island Beach last Saturday, and today another THICK-BILLED, not in the best of health, was spotted off Long Beach in Noyack but eventually washed ashore and was taken to a rehabilitator.
The Central Park GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was last reported on the Reservoir last Monday. A drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE remains off Crab Meadow Beach in Northport, and a female KING EIDER was off the end of Archery Road at Floyd Bennett Field this week, with the young male KING EIDER still around Shinnecock Inlet Tuesday. Three HARLEQUIN DUCKS continue, usually around the Point Lookout jetties.
The immature BLACK-HEADED GULL was still being seen near Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 at least to Tuesday, with a GLAUCOUS GULL also continuing in nearby Red Hook through today. Seven BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES were counted off Montauk Point last Saturday, the storm there also producing an estimated 350 RAZORBILLS. An ICELAND GULL was noted again at Randall’s Island yesterday as well as on Central Park Reservoir last Monday, and two young LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were reported on Prospect Park Lake Tuesday.
At least one RED-NECKED GREBE remains along the Brooklyn coast, with another off Pelham Bay Park yesterday.
The COMMON GALLINULE is still residing at Mill Pond Park in Bellmore, and odd were six SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS reported at Jones Beach West End Wednesday.
A LAPLAND LONGSPUR has been present with HORNED LARKS since Wednesday in a field off Sagg Main Street just before the entrance to Sagg Pond in Bridgehampton, and today three were found with LARKS at the entrance to Malibu Beach off Lido Boulevard in Point Lookout.
The Fort Tilden LARK SPARROW was last reported last Saturday, while a VESPER SPARROW does continue out in the Calverton Grasslands, where a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK is also being seen.
Twenty-five or more RED CROSSBILLS were present at Robert Moses State Park 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
