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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, November 8th 2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SAGE THRASHER, BULLOCK'S ORIOLE, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, WOOD STORK, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, EURASIAN WIGEON, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED CROSSBILL, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD and more.
This morning out at Robert Moses State Park a SAGE THRASHER was found at field 5 and though it disappeared for a while it was refound at dusk along the northern edge of the parking lot a little east of the toll booths. There's nothing to determine whether this is the same individual as the earlier Fire Island record at Smith Point County Park on October 22nd.
The male BULLOCK'S ORIOLE at Stillwell Woods Park in Woodbury was last reported on Wednesday but it still may be worth checking the fruiting trees east of the ballfields.
A female type RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was spotted last Saturday visiting feeders out in Eastport, Suffolk County and has continued there through today. The homeowner is very graciously permitting birders to view the feeders located behind their house. The address is 353 Old Country Road. Visitors should park on Union Street just east of the house and walk back to 353 entering the yard carefully near shrubs marked by streamers to view the feeders.
The TOWNSEND'S WARBLER in Bay Ridge Brooklyn has not been reported since Tuesday. To check the site look around 85th Street just west of 3rd Avenue.
The Staten Island WOOD STORK previously visiting North Mount Loretto State Forest was last reported apparently back on October 29th but it appears a different immature was photographed today at Blue Heron Park in Annadale seen on Blue Heron Pond west of Barkley Avenue.
An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN spotted flying over the William Floyd Estate in Mastic Beach last Saturday was a different individual from the one frequenting the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge still reported there today. Other Jamaica Bay birds this week included at least one drake EURASIAN WIGEON usually seen on the East Pond but also reported from the West Pond Thursday plus low shorebird numbers still including LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER along with CASPIAN TERN there on Wednesday and a report of LAPLAND LONGSPUR Monday.
An ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was reported from the Sparrow Bowl in Prospect Park last Saturday with a VESPER SPARROW also in the park that day.
A WESTERN KINGBIRD has spent the week at Jones Beach West End usually seen near the inner turnaround and another was at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn yesterday and today.
Two HARLEQUIN DUCKS were back at Orient Point County Park as of Tuesday.
A good showing of shearwaters still lingering around Montauk Point last weekend include a decent number of CORY'S with SCOPOLI'S also possibly mixed in. Good luck with that. Similar numbers of GREAT and at least one SOOTY and a couple of MANX. BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was also seen and 58 PINE SISKINS were counted Saturday.
Six RED CROSSBILLS were reported Thursday over the Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch in Bedford with a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK there Sunday.
A LARK SPARROW visited the Fire Island hawkwatch site at Robert Moses State Park last weekend and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were at Fort Tilden Saturday and Prospect Park Sunday among others.
Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were noted in Brooklyn this week including one in Prospect today and a male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was spotted flying west over Jones Beach West End with Red-wingeds Thursday morning.
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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