New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending on Friday, January 15, 2022:

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 14, 2022
* NYNY2201.14


- Birds Mentioned

PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
Common Gallinule
Long-billed Dowitcher
DOVEKIE
Razorbill
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Bonaparte’s Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
ICELAND GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Northern Gannet
American Bittern
WESTERN KINGBIRD
Blue-headed Vireo
NORTHERN SHRIKE
CLAY-COLORED 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 nysarc44nybirdsorg

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, January 14, 2022 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are DOVEKIE, WESTERN TANAGER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, NORTHERN SHRIKE, PINK-FOOTED and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE and KING EIDER, BLACK-HEADED, GLAUCOUS and ICELAND GULLS, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, CLAY-COLORED and VESPER SPARROWS and more.

Last Sunday's rough weather paid dividends at Montauk Point, where duck numbers remained low, but a productive offshore morning flight did provide 9 DOVEKIES as well as 65 RAZORBILLS, 30 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES, around 100 NORTHERN GANNETS and even 7 BONAPARTE’S GULLS, quite scarce this winter. Thursday morning there produced 23 RAZORBILLS and a couple of BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES as well.

Also in the Montauk area, a WESTERN KINGBIRD, likely the bird found on the Christmas count near West Lake Drive, was seen briefly both Saturday and Sunday mornings along East Lake Drive near Little Reed Pond.

Manhattan's two WESTERN TANAGERS were still in place this week, one at Carl Schurz Park off East End Avenue around East 86th Street, and the other near private Clinton Community Garden around West 48th Street east of 10th Avenue.

A NORTHERN STRIKE also continues at the North Fork Preserve out in Northville on the north side of Sound Avenue, but this bird can be quite elusive.

Among the waterfowl, a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE continues to visit Tung Ting Pond in Centerport, and the lower Westchester bird was on Playland Lake in Rye today, but more unusual was a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE that's been visiting a small pond on the Stony Brook University campus since Monday. A few CACKLING GEESE are also around.

A drake EURASIAN WIGEON continues to be seen on the mostly frozen Mill Pond in Oyster Bay, with another continuing on Patchogue Lake. Still present, too, are a drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE off Crab Meadow Beach in Fort Salonga and drake KING EIDERS at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and around Shinnecock Inlet.

An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was still in the vicinity of the bar off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station at least to Wednesday, and another BLACK-HEADED was spotted from the Veterans Memorial Pier in Brooklyn on Tuesday. GLAUCOUS GULLS were noted on Central Park reservoir and at Randall's Island during the week, with Randall's Island also producing a couple of ICELAND GULLS Saturday, with other ICELANDS seen today on Prospect Park Lake and at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn.

Other interesting non-passerines featured RED-NECKED GREBE at Culloden Point in Montauk Sunday and at Orient Point Wednesday, a COMMON GALLINULE continuing at Mill Pond Park in Bellmore, four LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS Tuesday at Santapogue Creek in West Babylon, and AMERICAN BITTERN along Dune Road.

A BLUE-HEADED VIREO was seen Monday at Floyd Bennett Field, and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW along with a few VESPER SPARROWS were both still present at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue yesterday.

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