- Birds mentioned
Red-necked Grebe
American Bittern
Greater White-fronted Goose
Wood Duck
Tufted Duck
Common Eider
King Eider
Harlequin Duck
Black Vulture +
Osprey
Bald Eagle
American Woodcock
Common Black-headed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Mew Gull +
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Dovekie
Common Murre +
Razorbill
Short-eared Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Horned Lark
Northern Shrike
Orange-crowned Warbler
Harris' Sparrow +
Lapland Longspur
if followed by (+) please send written report of the sighting to:
Jim Lowe
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
The NYSARC report form can be found at:
http://birds.cornell.edu/fnysbc/nysarc.htm
- Transcript
hotline: New York Rare Bird Alert
number: 212 979-3070
to report: Weekdays: Tom Burke 212 697-0606
Long Island: Tony Lauro 516 734-4126
Greater Brooklyn: Paul Keim 718 875-1151
compiler: Tom Burke
coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
transcriber: Greg Kunkel
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Greetings, this is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday March 12th
at 9:00 AM.
The highlights of todays tape are Mew Gull, Harris' Sparrow, Greater
White-Fronted Goose, Tufted Duck, King Eiders, Black-Headed,
Glaucous, Iceland and Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, Northern Shrike,
Common Murre, and Dovkies, and Red-Headed Woodpeckers.
The Shinnecock Inlet MEW GULL present around the inlet through last
Saturday but not noted Sunday or Monday was relocated Tuesday along
the beach about four miles or so east of Shinnecock Inlet. This first
winter European subspecies, often referred to as Common Gull, was
found with hundreds of other gulls including an adult BLACK-HEADED,
GLAUCOUS and ICELAND feeding on a clam kill that extended a good
distance along the Southampton ocean front. The MEW GULL was spotted
about 200 yards west of Agawan Pond. This is a long pond extending
from Southampton towards the ocean. Across from the bottom of the
pond is a beach club and large parking lot with access to the beach.
The MEW GULL was moving west on the beach Tuesday and thus could be
anywhere along the beachfront as long as the dead clams feeding
frenzy continues. Two BLACK-HEADED GULLS, an adult and an immature,
were in the above parking lot on Sunday. The beach road in
Southampton its name changing in places from Dune Road to Meadow Lane
and back, can be reached by taking almost any southbound road from
Route 27A in Southampton. Of other ponds along this beach road, the
western most is Halsey Neck Pond where a drake TUFTED DUCK was
present Sunday through Tuesday.
Three different ICELAND GULLS and an immature LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULL were seen at Shinnecock Inlet on Sunday. The NORTHERN SHRIKE was
spotted again Monday and Tuesday along Dune Road on the western side
of Shinnecock Inlet near Triton Lane which is west of the Ponquogue
Bridge, and up to five AMERICAN BITTERN and a SHORT-EARED OWL have
been present in that same area.
In Bridgehampton on Sunday a well marked HARRIS' SPARROW was found in
a flock of White-crowned Sparrows, and has remained at this site
through Thursday. To reach this site from Route 27 in Bridgehampton
take Town Line Road south. It will quickly fork. Take the left fork,
which is Wainscott Hollow Road. About 300 yards north of the
intersection of this road and Wainscott Main Street is an old public
school with a ballfield and baseball backstop with a small hedge
behind it. Watch for the sparrow flock around the hedge area. Some
seed has been put out keeping the birds in that area and it is
strongly recommended that birders stay along the road to view the
flock which has shown a tendency to disappear when flushed.
The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE continues in the Hook Pond area in
East Hampton, usually being found on the pond or at the northern end
of the adjacent golf course, but sometimes also seen in fields
northeast of Route 27 on the other side of Easthampton. The
GLAUCOUS GULL was also on Hook Pond on Saturday.
At Montauk Point Saturday interesting species included a lingering
RED-NECKED GREBE, drake and female KING EIDERS, over 500
COMMON EIDER, five HARLEQUIN DUCKS, eight RAZORBILLS, and two
GLAUCOUS GULLS. An OSPREY was also noted on the South Fork on Monday.
Early last week an oiled COMMON MURRE was picked up on Napeague Beach
and subsequently died at a rehabilitators. At the same time two
DOVEKIES were also found on land, one near Hither Hills, but less
details are available on these.
Three SHORT-EARED OWLS were still around the Grumman field in
Calverton on Tuesday.
Twelve LAPLAND LONGSPURS were counted Saturday at Saint Charles
Cemetery southeast of Farmingdale. This cemetery is on the eastern
side of New Highway just north of Exit 34 off the Southern State
Parkway, and the accompanying HORNED LARK flock, is usually at the
southern end of the cemetery.
Unfortunately it appears that one of the RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS in
Central Park may have been taken by a Cooper's Hawk. The eight
remaining birds, include just four now on the western side of The
Great Lawn. Up to eight WOOD DUCKS have been visiting the pool around
West 100th Street, and some AMERICAN WOODCOCK have also been seen.
WOODCOCK have been displaying in numbers at Marshlands Conservancy in
Rye this week.
An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen Friday and Monday at Alley Pond
Park along the northern edge of the soccer field.
Five or more BLACK VULTURES plus an adult BALD EAGLE were seen Sunday
from the overlook on the eastern side of the Hudson River along
Routes 202 and 6 just south of The Bear Mountain Bridge. The vultures
are quite regular at this site.
To phone in reports;
on Long Island call Tony Lauro at 516 734-4126,
in the Brooklyn area call Paul Keim at 718 875-1151,
or during the day except Sunday call Tom Burke at 212 697-0606.
This service is sponsored by The Linnaean Society of New York and The
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
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Greg Kunkel
Smithtown (Suffolk), NY
74055.1622@compuserve.com