New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, March 10, 2023:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 10, 2023
* NYNY2303.10


- Birds mentioned
TRUMPETER SWAN+
SWAINSON'S HAWK+
WESTERN MEADOWLARK+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
EARED GREBE
Virginia Rail
American Oystercatcher
Piping Plover
Long-billed Dowitcher
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Eastern Phoebe
Tree Swallow
House Wren
RED CROSSBILL
Chipping Sparrow
Northern Waterthrush
Orange-crowned Warbler

- Transcript

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: Ben Cacace

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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, March 10th 2023* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SWAINSON'S HAWK, WESTERN MEADOWLARK, EARED GREBE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, TRUMPETER SWAN, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, RED CROSSBILL and more.

Both of Brooklyn's recently residing major highlights were still present today. The immature SWAINSON'S HAWK remains around the waste recovery plant located at 29th Street west of 2nd Avenue. Look for it around the buildings and light structures as well as garbage piles in that vicinity and a little south of there the apparent WESTERN MEADOWLARK continues at Bush Terminal Piers Park where the bird can be quite elusive moving about between the shoreline and a vacant lot and other spots providing sufficient cover.

The EARED GREBE was still around the mouth of Hendrick's Creek at the north end of Jamaica Bay at least to Sunday. This favored area near the pier at the southeastern corner of Shirley Chisholm State Park. Two GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were present Thursday and today in Brightwaters visiting Lower Cascade Lake as viewed from Lakeview Avenue North while the one in the Rye area was last seen last Saturday. The TRUMPETER SWAN in Montauk was still in residence on the northwestern section of Fort Pond last Sunday and also continuing have been the drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at Crab Meadow Beach in Northport at least to Tuesday and a few HARLEQUIN DUCKS along the jetty at Jones Beach West End to yesterday.

A BLACK-HEADED GULL was still around Setauket Harbor on Tuesday and single ICELAND GULLS were seen at Randall's Island and Breezy Point last Saturday and Wolfe's Pond Park on Staten Island Tuesday and on Central Park Reservoir today.

Two LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were present on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge at least to Monday and another was still around yesterday on Smith Pond in Rockville Centre.

This week one or two RAZORBILLS were noted off Governors Island and off Breezy Point, in Gravesend Bay, off Staten Island's Lemon Creek Pier and off City Island in the Bronx as well as out in Montauk.

The immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continued in Brooklyn's Marine Park to yesterday often in the vicinity of Stewart Street and Avenue T.

RED CROSSBILLS remain in the Calverton area with 3 near Preston's Pond on Tuesday and another flew over Lemon Creek Pier yesterday.

Besides some lingering ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS also apparently successfully over wintering so far has been the NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Brooklyn Bridge Park and among various species showing up recently have been VIRGINIA RAIL, PIPING PLOVER, AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, HOUSE WREN and CHIPPING SPARROW.

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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