-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 25, 2020
* NYNY2009.25
– Birds Mentioned
LECONTE’S SPARROW+
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
EURASIAN WIGEON
Least Bittern
Sora
Greater Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Long-billed Dowitcher
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
American Pipit
Purple Finch
PINE SISKIN
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
Nelson’s Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
Palm Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at https://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: Gail Benson
[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 25, 2020 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, LECONTE’S SPARROW, EURASIAN WIGEON, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK, CLAY-COLORED and other SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CONNNECTICUT, GOLDEN-WINGED and other WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL, PINE SISKIN and more.
The somewhat compromised adult male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens since September 16th was still foraging south of the Boathouse today. Given the so far unexplained damage to various wing and tail feathers, this bird might be continuing along the shore of Meadow Lake for a while. This area can be easily reached from the southbound Van Wyck Expressway.
It was a totally different situation for the LECONTE’S SPARROW reported Thursday near Bench 10 along the West Pond Trail at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, as this bird was never relocated, though a search there did yield a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and a CONNECTICUT WARBLER amongother highlights. Also at Jamaica Bay the eclipse EURASIAN WIGEON does remain at the south end of the East Pond, where numbers and variety of waterfowl do continue to rise. The East Pond high water level, however, still precludes any large gatherings of shorebirds there.
Out East a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was found last Saturday in Calverton, this followed by another Thursday east of Youngs Avenue in Southold. Other notable shorebirds included single WHIMBREL at Fort Tilden Tuesday and Captree State Park Wednesday and a few LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS continuing with GREATER YELLOWLEGS along Santapogue Creek off Venetian Boulevard in West Babylon.
Single CASPIAN TERNS this week appeared in Northport Bay Saturday, Fire Island Sunday, Sagg Pond Tuesday and at Robert Moses State Park today, when 21 ROYAL TERNS were counted at Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach.
A LEAST BITTERN and a SORA were both noted at Arshamomaque Preserve in
Greenport West Thursday, and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER flew by Robert Moses State Park Wednesday.
A LAPLAND LONGSPUR has been lingering around the top of the Croton Point landfill in company with many AMERICAN PIPITS and PALM WARBLERS since Wednesday.
In Central Park a LARK SPARROW stayed in the north end last weekend, and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was seen again there Tuesday, when another LARK SPARROW was found at West Brook Pond out in Great River. A VESPER SPARROW was noted at Montauk’s Camp Hero today, and NELSON’S SPARROWS have begun to appear.
Among the several CONNECTICUT WARBLERS fortuitously found this week were singles in many of the city parks and other regularly birded venues, this now the peak period for them, whereas it’s early for ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, with one present at Theodore Roosevelt County Park in Montauk Wednesday and Thursday. A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER visited Central Park Tuesday, and other WARBLERS this week included a few MOURNINGS, about thirty species reported overall.
DICKCISSELS included two at Captree Wednesday and two more at Montauk’s Roosevelt Park Thursday among others, and single BLUE GROSBEAKS visited Central Park’s north end Saturday and Camp Hero today.
PINE SISKINS have been scattered throughout our area in small numbers recently, and other migrants have included several PHILADELPHIA VIREOS and PURPLE FINCHES as well as various FLYCATCHERS, including OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED.
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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