- Birds mentioned
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Blue Goose
Brant
Black Brant +
Northern Shoveler
Eurasian Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Tufted Duck
Common Eider
King Eider
Harlequin Duck
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Wild Turkey
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Common Snipe
American Woodcock
Laughing Gull
Little Gull
Black-headed Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Forster's Tern
Short-eared Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Common Raven
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Pine Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Painted Bunting +
White-crowned Sparrow
Harris' Sparrow +
Rusty Blackbird
Monk Parakeet
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 April 2nd
at 3:00 PM.
The highlights of todays tape are Painted Bunting, Harris' Sparrow,
Little, Black-headed, Glaucous, Iceland, and Lesser Black-Backed
Gulls, Tufted Duck, Black Brant, King Eider, and Red-Headed
Woodpeckers, plus spring arrivals.
The PAINTED BUNTING found last Friday in Prospect Park, Brooklyn was
still present at the same location early this morning. To reach this
location enter Prospect Park from Prospect Park SW coming in at the
Vanderbilt Playground entrance which is across from Vanderbilt
Street. Walk straight to the lake which is in front of you . The road
that curves around to the left of this lake is Wellhouse Drive. Walk
a short distance up Wellhouse Drive on the left side of the lake to
the brushy area under lightpost number 249. The bird has been feeding
here as well as in rose bushes farther up the hill. Also in Prospect
Park a wintering ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was still being seen
occasionally near the lake and was found on The Peninsula on Sunday.
The lake has been hosting a few LAUGHING GULLS and up to 40
NORTHERN SHOVELERS. Three RING-NECKED DUCKS stopped by there Tuesday.
One TURKEY VULTURE, COMMON SNIPE, and three MONK PARAKEETS also
visited the park. A BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER and a PINE WARBLER were
also noted there on Wednesday.
In Bridgehampton out east the HARRIS' SPARROW was still being seen
there last Sunday with the accompanying Gambel's WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW there on Thursday. The more skulky Harris's probably also
continuing. These birds frequent a hedgerow by a baseball backstop
and can be reached as follows: from Route 27 east of Bridgehampton
take Town Line Road. It forks almost immediately. Take the left fork,
Wainscott Hollow Road and continue 8/10ths of a mile from the fork
looking for the hedgerow and baseball backstop on the left.
We have no recent reports of the Shinnecock Mew Gull, but the
TUFTED DUCK at Cooper's Neck Pond last weekend, by Thursday had
joined a EURASIAN WIGEON on Agawan Pond in Southampton. Recent
LITTLE GULLS in that same area have included two immatures at Mecox
Saturday, an adult at Mecox Sunday, and another on the ocean off Hook
Pond in East Hampton on Thursday. Also an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL has
been frequenting Sag Pond where it has been viewed from the bridge on
Bridge Lane. A LEAST SANDPIPER at Sag Pond along with up to seven
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, and four LESSER YELLOWLEGS were new arrivals
there. Two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were at that same spot on
Sunday. An ICELAND GULL was seen at Shinnecock Inlet also on Sunday.
Out at Montauk Point on Sunday 12 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were present along
the north shore rocks west of the restaurant. While at the point
birds included a young male KING EIDER, lots of Scoters, and
COMMON EIDER, a second year GLAUCOUS GULL, and second year
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL.
Point Lookout, on the western side of Jones Inlet, two immature
LITTLE GULLS were still in the large Bonaparte's Gull flock there on
Sunday, and an adult and immature BLACK-HEADED GULLS were spotted
there on Wednesday, along with an ICELAND GULL and a lingering
FORSTER'S TERN. Three HARLEQUIN DUCKS were still also around the
ocean jetties at Point Lookout on Wednesday.
An ICELAND GULL was at Jones Beach West End on Sunday.
A BLACK BRANT was spotted Sunday in a Brant flock at Floyd Bennett
Field. Breezy Point the same day produced a LESSER BLACK-BACKED and
two ICELAND GULLS. Another LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was at Jamaica
Bay Refuge that day, while arrivals and other sightings at the bay
recently have included TRICOLORED HERON, and SNOWY EGRET last
Saturday, BALD EAGLE, five RING-NECKED DUCKS, and some LAUGHING GULLS
on Monday, a PINE WARBLER Thursday, and at least three BLUE GEESE
among the Snows there.
In Central Park all Eight RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS are now in pretty
good plumage , with four remaining in the Locusts on the west side of
The Great Lawn. Other notable Central Park highlights recently have
included AMERICAN WOODCOCK Monday, RUSTY BLACKBIRD Wednesday, and a
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH Thursday, and increased numbers of such
migrants as NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, HERMIT THRUSH,
WINTER WREN, and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. An obviously escaped flock
of 17 Mitered Parakeets have also been in the park since the 18th.
In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx a PILEATED WOODPECKER put in a
welcome visit yesterday behind the horse stables. Monday there
produced a lingering female WILD TURKEY, COMMON SNIPE, and 20
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.
The Alley Pond Park ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was still present Monday
in the Yews at the north edge of the soccer field.
A SHORT-EARED OWL was at Tobay Monday, and three COMMON RAVENS were
spotted soaring over Hook Mountain in Rockland County on Monday.
An adult LITTLE BLUE HERON appeared in Rye yesterday.
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