Category: Rare Bird Alerts

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 3, 2021
* NYNY2109.03

BRIDLED TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK
Common Nighthawk
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER
Red-headed Woodpecker
SEDGE WREN
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
DICKCISSEL

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:  Gail Benson

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 3, 2021 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, a belated pelagic BRIDLED TERN, a pelagic trip featuring AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER and RED-NECKED PHALOROPE, a nice selection of shorebirds including AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS and WILSON’S PHALAROPE, SEDGE WREN, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKIRD, LARK SPARROW, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and more.

The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was still around the southwest corner of the pond last Sunday, but several more inches of rain dumped on the pond by Hurricane Ida have really set back the shorebird season there despite heroic efforts to keep the pond draining properly.

A pelagic voyage well south of Suffolk County aboard the ship Seas the Day on Friday August 27th provided nice photos of a BRIDLED TERN. Then on Monday observers aboard the whale boat the American Princess out near Hudson Canyon recorded 4 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 125 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, 3 CORY’S, 60 GREAT and 29 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS, plus a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT that circled the boat.  Also seen were 110 Short-Finned Pilot Whales, a Humpback Whale, and about 60 Common, 6 Risso’s and 30 Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins.  As a note, too, a Northern Right Whale was photographed off Nickerson Beach Saturday. Sea watching from Robert Moses State Park and Shinnecock Inlet last weekend also produced very small numbers of CORY’S, GREAT and MANX SHEARWATERS and WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS.

A good week for shorebirds featured an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Monday and Tuesday followed by 6 flying by Robert Moses State Park today.  Some BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS this week included 3 on the Stargazer fields along Route 51 in Centerport Sunday, 1 there Tuesday, and then 2 Tuesday and Thursday off Oregon Road just east of Depot Lane in Cutchogue.  These Oregon Road fields also provided counts of up to 5 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS today, and 4 were also reported flying by Robert Moses State Park today.

A MARBLED GODWIT at Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach last Saturday was followed by 1 Monday and 2 Tuesday at Old Inlet, the cut west of Smith Point County Park, where an HUDSONIAN GODWIT was also present those two
days. Two more HUDSONIANS flew by Robert Moses State Park Wednesday. 104 ROYAL TERNS were also counted at Old Inlet on Monday.

Single WHIMBREL were seen at Floyd Bennett Field Saturday, Shinnecock Sunday and Plumb Beach Tuesday, and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE visited Heckscher State Park last Saturday.

A GULL-BILLED TERN was still at Jamaica Bay Sunday, and CASPIAN and BLACK TERNS were spotted at numerous locations after the storm. COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are now migrating through.

Today RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were found at Central Park’s north end and in Astoria Park, Queens.

A female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was reported again Wednesday at Nickerson Beach, and 6 SEDGE WRENS were counted at Freshkills Park on Staten Island Monday.

Two immature LARK SPARROWS found Thursday along the edge of Field 2 at Robert Moses State Park were still present today and another was at Brooklyn Bridge Park, these following 1 at Croton Point Park Tuesday.

A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER in Central Park yesterday was the highlight among the WARBLERS that this week also included WORM-EATING, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, HOODED and WILSON’S.

Single DICKCISSELS in Brooklyn Monday and at Crab Meadow Beach Tuesday were followed by 5 at Robert Moses State Park today.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 27, 2021
* NYNY2108.27

– Birds Mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
BROWN BOOBY+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
BROWN PELICAN
SEDGE WREN
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
DICKCISSEL


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:  Gail Benson

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 27, 2021 at 8:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are LONG-TAILED JAEGER, BROWN BOOBY, BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, BROWN PELICAN, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, KING EIDER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, SEDGE WREN, LARK SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, DICKCISSEL and more.

Hopes were high, but Hurricane Henri surprisingly failed to produce any tropical surprises during its passage through our area last Sunday into Monday.  What it did do was alter the timing and routes of a few southbound species, most notably on Monday, when the best rarities appeared off Riis Park with the brief visit of a juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER photographed as it passed by and headed out to sea and a BROWN BOOBY moving west out on the ocean.  The biggest surprise, though, was the occurrence on Monday of several very substantial flocks of HUDSONIAN GODWITS – out at Orient Point birders spotted 6 separate flocks in the morning varying in size from 20 to 110 individuals, totaling 424 birds in all, and late morning at Robert Moses State Park a flock of 151 was videoed as it moved by.  Even taking into account some estimates and duplications, this represents by far the highest daily count ever for this species in New York.  Other flocks moving down the Connecticut coast would only add to this total, though only 2 birds were seen from Rye, the rest choosing unknown pathways south.

Also pushed south by Henri Monday were over 30 CASPIAN TERNS and several BLACK TERNS noted moving down the Hudson River, with a few of each also at coastal sites, while a few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and 1 or 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS also occurred along the coast.  Also notable on Monday were counts of 65 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS at Breezy Point and a very high 165 at Robert Moses State Park.

The hurricane unfortunately pretty well filled up the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, but the BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK was still present today at the southwest corner of the pond. Prior to the storm, last Saturday shorebirds on the pond still featured 2 WILSON’S PHALAROPES along with STILT, PECTORAL and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS.

Highlights among the shorebirds this week have been a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER at Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach Thursday and only very early today, and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER in the Pelham Bay Orchard Beach parking lot Wednesday through today, with another BAIRD’S plus PECTORAL, STILT and WESTERN SANDPIPERS today at the Brooklyn Golf Center off Flatbush Avenue across from Floyd Bennett Field.  A MARBLED GODWIT flew by Robert Moses State Park Tuesday, and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE visited Heckscher State Park today.

Two KING EIDERS were still at Wolfe’s Pond Park on Staten Island Monday, and a BROWN PELICAN was reported off Moses Park last Saturday.

A SEDGE WREN was still at restricted Freshkills Park on Staten Island Saturday, and a female-type YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was found at Nickerson Beach Wednesday.  Single LARK SPARROWS were reported in Central Park’s north end Saturday and at Moses Park Tuesday, the latter site also recording a DICKCISSEL Tuesday.  PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was last noted in Central Park Tuesday, and, belatedly, a SUMMER TANAGER was photographed in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery last Friday.

To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.

This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and National Audubon Society.  Thank you for calling.

– End transcript

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 20, 2021
* NYNY2108.20

– Birds mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD+
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Pomarine Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
SEDGE WREN
Worm-eating Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

– 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

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 20th 2021 at 10pm. The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic research vessel findings including WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD, WHITE-FACED and BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS, BLACK-CAPPED PETREL and AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER plus BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, BROWN PELICAN, KING EIDER, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, MARBLED GODWIT, UPLAND SANDPIPER, SEDGE WREN, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

A NOAA research vessel transecting through New York waters 150 miles or so out in the Atlantic early on Tuesday had the good fortune of spotting an adult WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD as it flew high above their boat and away. Other highlights in New York from transects on Tuesday and again today included 3 sightings of WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL, one on Tuesday and 2 today, 3 BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS and 2 BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS today and combined totals of 7 LEACH’S and 15 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, 22 CORY’S, 9 GREAT and 8 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS and 3 POMARINE JAEGERS.

Back on shore the BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK continues on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, usually at the Cove in the southwest corner of the pond. Also on the East Pond have been at least 2 continuing WILSON’S PHALAROPES while the 3 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES stayed for the shorebird festival last Saturday but then moved on. The East Pond does though continue to provide a good variety of shorebirds including STILT, WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL, WESTERN SANDPIPER and an occasional LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER among the more numerous species. Visiting GULL-BILLED TERNS and BLACK TERNS and lots of waterfowl. A MARBLED GODWIT was still near Ruffel Bar out at Jamaica Bay to Monday and yesterday 7 BROWN PELICANS showed up in the bay to out into Jamaica Bay as well.

Other BROWN PELICANS during the week included 2 off Cupsogue County Park last Saturday and 4 off Huguenot Beach on Staten Island Sunday. Cupsogue also hosted a MARBLED GODWIT and 2 WHIMBRELS last Saturday while single MARBLED GODWIT and WHIMBREL visited Mecox Sunday. Two more WHIMBRELS were seen at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn Wednesday along with 4 GULL-BILLED TERNS.

On Staten Island, at restricted Freshkills Park, notable sightings included an UPLAND SANDPIPER Saturday along with 2 SEDGE WRENS and 2 BLUE GROSBEAKS with 4 SEDGE WRENS counted there Wednesday.

CASPIAN TERNS featured a couple at Croton Point Park Monday with one there yesterday this only increasing coastal numbers of ROYAL TERNS included up to 4 at Plumb Beach.

Also on Staten Island 2 immature male KING EIDERS continue along the shore between Great Kills Park and Wolfe’s Pond Park while another young male was seen Wednesday around Montauk Harbor Inlet from the Cresli Whale Watching boat which also recorded 11 CORY’S SHEARWATERS and 25 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS.

A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER in Central Park since the 11th was still around the Ramble today. Among the other warbler migrants this week, most still in rather low numbers, were a MOURNING or two in Central Park plus species such as WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, BAY-BREASTED, WILSON’S and HOODED while other migrants included YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER, PURPLE MARTIN and CLIFF SWALLOW.

Besides the DICKCISSELS now feeding young at Croton Point Park another was spotted Sunday at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

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

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 13, 2021
* NYNY2108.13

– Birds mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
WOOD STORK+
BROWN BOOBY+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Sora
American Avocet (Dutchess County)
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Great Shearwater
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
Least Bittern
Olive-sided Flycatcher
SEDGE WREN
HENSLOW’S SPARROW
Worm-eating Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Northern Parula
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

– 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

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 13th 2021 at 10pm. The highlights of today’s tape are ROSEATE SPOONBILL, WOOD STORK, BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, BROWN PELICAN, offshore pelagic species including BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL and AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER, BROWN BOOBY, KING EIDER, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, MARBLED GODWIT, SEDGE WREN, HENSLOW’S SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

We start with two updates. The Cold Spring Harbor ROSEATE SPOONBILL was last seen early [last] Saturday morning flying north out of the harbor. It may be the individual showing up later in Connecticut while the Staten Island WOOD STORK was unfortunately found dead Monday afternoon having apparently choked on a 3 foot piece of plastic foam.

A BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK reappeared Monday on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continuing there through today in the cove at the southwest corner of the pond. Good numbers and varieties of shorebirds still continue on the East Pond including 3 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES and 2-3 WILSON’S PHALAROPES, they have been recently hanging around the south end. Other shorebirds included decent numbers of STILT and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, an occasional PECTORAL and WESTERN SANDPIPER and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER among the more uncommon species. The pond has also produced SORA, LEAST BITTERN, ROYAL TERN and a few GULL-BILLED TERNS. More GULL-BILLEDS plus MARBLED GODWIT and up to 6 WHIMBREL have been present in the bay west of the West Pond seen mostly from boats. Another MARBLED GODWIT was on the flats at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes yesterday.

Two BROWN PELICANS were seen today moving east off Fire Island near Smith Point County Park in Shirley.

Two NOAA research vessels, apparently cruising Atlantic waters well offshore during the week in New York waters, encountered 2 BROWN BOOBIES last Sunday south of Suffolk County as well as a BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL and 5 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS today, another 5 AUDUBON’S last Sunday and GREAT SHEARWATER today and some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS. A few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS have also been seen recently off Breezy Point and also from the Coney Island Pier.

Two male KING EIDER were still present off Staten Island and usually seen between Great Kills Park and Wolfe’s Pond Park.

Twelve LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted today at Breezy Point and single CASPIAN TERNS were spotted this week at Plumb Beach, Southold, Fire Island and Croton Point Park.

Researchers at currently closed Freshkills Park on Staten Island on Thursday reported a couple of SEDGE WRENS and a singing HENSLOW’S SPARROW.

An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER visited Central Park last Sunday and the PROTHONOTARY WARBLER appearing Wednesday at Turtle Pond in Central Park was still present there today.

Among the other warblers seen this week were WORM-EATING, BLUE-WINGED, TENNESSEE, HOODED, NORTHERN PARULA, BLACKBURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, PRAIRIE, CANADA and WILSON’S.

BLUE GROSBEAKS continue at the Calverton Grasslands as do the DICKCISSELS breeding at Croton Point Park. Please continue to respect the needs of these birds and do not disturb them in any way.

Some interesting slightly extralimital birds seen last Wednesday were an AMERICAN AVOCET at the Beacon Waterfront in Dutchess County and a BROWN BOOBY at Kingston in Ulster County.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 6, 2021
* NYNY2108.06

– Birds Mentioned

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
WOOD STORK+
BROWN BOOBY+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Gull-billed Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
BROWN PELICAN
Olive-sided Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Blackburnian Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

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:  Gail Benson

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 6, 2021 at 8:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are ROSEATE SPOONBILL, WOOD STORK, BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, BROWN BOOBY, BROWN PELICAN, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, WHIMBREL, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

This nice list of rarities this week still features the immature ROSEATE SPOONBILL continuing around Cold Spring Harbor.  Look for the SPOONBILL along the shore of the inner reaches of the harbor, a little north of Rte. 25A, where parking can be found along Harbor Road, or check St. John’s Pond just south of 25A, where there is a platform to view the pond next to a parking lot by St. John’s Church and the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery. This bird moves around for feeding and roosting purposes.

A WOOD STORK was found on Staten Island last Saturday and was still present today in the Bloomfield section of northwestern Staten Island. Today’s location was a pond in Matrix Global Logistics Park as approached from Gulf Avenue, just south of 5th Street and east of Chelsea Avenue.  This bird may require some searching in that area around the Amazon complex.

The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK continues on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, usually around the cove at the southwestern corner of the East Pond, though apparently spending the night at the north end.

Also at the Bay, a WILSON’S PHALAROPE appeared on the East Pond at the north end Tuesday, numbers increasing to at least 3 by today, and these were joined at the north end by a couple of RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, also still present today, one or more of the PHALAROPES also occasionally visiting the south end.  Other shorebirds on the East Pond this week have featured WESTERN, WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL and STILT SANDPIPERS, plus a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER today.  Up to 4 GULL-BILLED TERNS have been visiting the East Pond, and out in Jamaica Bay west of the West Pond 5 WHIMBRELS were present on an island last Sunday.

On Thursday, a passenger on the Staten Island Ferry spotted an adult BROWN BOOBY flying by, and this was followed by an adult seen today from a NOAA research vessel south of Fire Island.

A BROWN PELICAN off Robert Moses State Park last Saturday morning was presumably the same one moving west off Tobay shortly thereafter.

An adult male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD visited a feeder at a private home in East Quogue yesterday, so keep an eye out.

Up to 4 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS were seen today off the Coney Island pier in Brooklyn.

An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was photographed in Pelham Bay Park last Saturday, when an adult LARK SPARROW was also seen on the landfill at Croton Point Park.

Migrant WARBLERS noted this week included WORM-EATING, OVENBIRD, LOUISIANA and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, BLACK-AND-WHITE, AMERICAN REDSTART, BLUE-WINGED and BLACKBURNIAN.

BLUE GROSBEAKS, including young, remain around the Calverton grasslands, and young DICKCISSELS has also been confirmed at Croton Point Park.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 30, 2021
* NYNY2107.30

– Birds Mentioned

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
ARCTIC TERN
BROWN PELICAN
American Bittern
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
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, July 30, 2021 at 7:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are ROSEATE SPOONBILL, SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET and other shorebirds, ARCTIC, GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL, and more.

As hoped for, last Sunday ROSEATE SPOONBILL not unexpectedly appeared on Long Island.  A marsh survey of islands around Island Park in the Town of Hempstead uncovered an immature shortly after another immature was spotted in Cold Spring Harbor.  Nicely, the Cold Spring individual has remained in that area through today, providing birders the opportunity to see it in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties as it moves, generally as a result of tidal conditions, between sites on both sides of the inner portions of Cold Spring Harbor at lower tides and over to roost on St. John’s Pond on the south side of Route 25A at higher tides.  Harbor Road on the east side of the harbor provides some vantage points, as does the observation deck on the north side of St. John’s Pond.

A SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was seen briefly Sunday afternoon as it cruised over the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Syosset, just south of the Cold Spring Spoonbill site.

The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK continues at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, usually seen around the cove at the southwestern corner of the East Pond, though it apparently may roost overnight at the north end of the pond. The East Pond has also been hosting a nice variety of shorebirds, though many of the earlier migrating adults have been moving on.  Among the less common species lately have been a colorful adult LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and decent numbers of STILT SANDPIPERS, plus the occasional PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED, WESTERN and SOLITARY SANDPIPERS.  Two or more GULL-BILLED TERNS have been appearing regularly around the pond’s south end, and a CASPIAN TERN was reported there last Saturday.

A small incursion of BROWN PELICANS produced 7 off Davis Point on Fire Island on Tuesday, followed by 1 at Smith Point County Park Wednesday, 2 off Robert Moses State Park Thursday, and 6 off Blue Point Beach on Fire Island today, these presumably included in the 8 moving west off Robert Moses Park a little later in the morning.  Two were also sitting on a sandbar off Cupsogue County Park today.

The AMERICAN AVOCET was last reported at Nickerson Beach last Saturday, while a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER was spotted at Plumb Beach Wednesday and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was reported from Bloomfield on Staten Island Tuesday.

A total of 42 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were gathered at Breezy Point today, and an immature ARCTIC TERN was observed briefly as it flew by Robert Moses State Park last Saturday morning.  An AMERICAN BITTERN was photographed at Watch Hill on Fire Island last Saturday.

Among various migrating land birds recently have been some CLIFF and BANK SWALLOWS and LOUISIANA and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES.

BLUE GROSBEAKS continue at the Calverton Grasslands, and DICKCISSELS have been confirmed nesting at Croton Point Park in Westchester, a nice record.

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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– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 23, 2021
* NYNY2107.23

– Birds mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+ (Orange County)
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

SANDHILL CRANE
AMERICAN AVOCET
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

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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, July 23rd 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, SANDHILL CRANE, WHITE-FACED IBIS, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET and other shorebirds, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s single BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK continues on the East Pond where it has been seen usually in the Cove roosting with other waterfowl on the southwest side of the pond as viewed from the south end. Be careful as you navigate the edges of the pond especially if venturing up to the Raunt or beyond. WHITE-FACED IBIS has, at least through Wednesday, been mostly now up at the north end of the pond. The big numbers and variety of shorebirds, though, are generally well dispersed along the pond’s edges. These recently including 1 or 2 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 31 STILT SANDPIPERS, a WESTERN and up to 3 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and decent totals for the more expected species. Also noted on the East Pond this week were up to 3 GULL-BILLED TERNS and a CASPIAN TERN last Sunday.

The SANDHILL CRANE present on the Dyker Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn on the 15th was likely the one also seen out at the tip of Breezy Point early last Saturday.

A BROWN PELICAN was spotted off Miller Field Beach on Staten Island last Sunday.

AMERICAN AVOCET, found at Nickerson Beach last Sunday, was still present today in the rain pools west of the main tern colony. Remember there is a fee to enter Nickerson if you arrive after the booths open up.

A WHIMBREL was at Breezy Point Tuesday and Wednesday where this week’s high count of 59 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS took place today and a CASPIAN TERN appeared at Plumb Beach Monday.

A few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS have been seen from shore along the coast recently but pelagics have been sparse.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still at Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester last Saturday and please remember to use utmost caution so as not to disturb such sensitive species as the BLUE GROSBEAKS using the wonderful Calverton Grasslands or the DICKCISSELS attempting to nest on the Croton Point Park landfill.

There were sightings of single ROSEATE SPOONBILLS in the Orange County Black Dirt Region at Liberty Loop on the 14th and yesterday to early this morning at Wappinger’s Falls in Dutchess County and hopefully it will be soon that one appears in the NYC region.

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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– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 16, 2021
* NYNY2107.16

– Birds mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
ARCTIC TERN+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Sora
SANDHILL CRANE
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Great Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

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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, July 16th 2021 at 9pm. The highlights of this vacation shortened week are BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, WHITE-FACED IBIS, BROWN PELICAN, ARCTIC TERN, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER, MANX SHEARWATER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, MARBLED GODWIT, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

The East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to produce interesting birds highlighted by a BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK found at the south end of the pond last Sunday that was still present today. This bird is most often seen with other ducks along the west side of the south end but may wander. Other highlights on the East Pond this week have included the adult WHITE-FACED IBIS now usually seen more towards the north end of the pond well above the Raunt plus an HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 1 or 2 GULL-BILLED TERNS during the week, 1 or 2 CASPIAN TERNS since Tuesday and on Sunday a couple of SORAS along the reed edge near the Raunt.

Southbound adult shorebirds have also made a decent push into the area with the East Pond hosting a nice variety including up to 4 STILT SANDPIPERS. Also seen from a kayak in the bays surrounding the refuge were 2 WHIMBREL on the west side Saturday and a MARBLED GODWIT again at Joco Marsh on the east side Sunday.

Also of note were 4 BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS found on a private cattle farm out in Mattituck on Thursday.

The only BROWN PELICAN sightings locally apparently came from last Saturday with 2 at Smith Point County Park in Shirley and singles from Fire Island Pines and Robert Moses State Park.

An immature ARCTIC TERN was spotted Monday at the tern colony in Nickerson Beach.

Apparently not publicized due to possible sensitivity a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was present for a short while last Saturday in the northern section of East Hampton and it has not been seen since.

And another surprise, a SANDHILL CRANE was photographed on the 18th green at Dyker Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn early Thursday morning.

The young male KING EIDER was present off Star Island in Montauk Harbor last weekend.

A seawatch off Robert Moses State Park Tuesday noted 10 GREAT and 2 MANX SHEARWATERS. The counts of LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS in field 2 reached 88 Tuesday all non-adults of varying ages and a GULL-BILLED TERN also came in off the ocean to visit Moses Tuesday.

At Plumb Beach among the arriving shorebirds this week have been a few WESTERN SANDPIPERS peaking at 4 Wednesday.

BLUE GROSBEAKS remain around the Calverton Grasslands and nesting behavior continues among the small group of DICKCISSELS at Croton Point Park. Please refrain from doing anything that might disturb these or any other breeding birds at this critical time of their lives.

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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-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 9, 2021
* NYNY2107.09

– Birds Mentioned

WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
PURPLE GALLINULE+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
American Bittern
Acadian Flycatcher
Worm-eating 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

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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, July 9, 2021 at 10:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are PURPLE GALLINULE, WHITE-FACED IBIS, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, BROWN PELICAN, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, ARCTIC and GULL-BILLED TERNS, various Shearwaters, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, the East Pond continues to attract interesting birds, but, unfortunately, the adult PURPLE GALLINULE has not been seen there since last Saturday.  However, the adult WHITE-FACED IBIS does continue to be seen, though now generally north of the Raunt on the east side of the pond, perhaps even up to the north end.  Today an HUDSONIAN GODWIT in nice plumage was seen just north of the Raunt, also visible from the end of the Big John’s Pond path.  A GULL-BILLED TERN has been visiting the East Pond occasionally during the week, and on Tuesday a MARBLED GODWIT was spotted in Joco Marsh east of the East Pond subway tracks by a kayaker.

An earlier HUDSONIAN GODWIT had also been reported last Sunday morning, this a flyby at Mother’s Beach out in Bellport.

An incursion of BROWN PELICANS commenced last Monday, when 9 were seen flying east over the ocean in the Zach’s Bay area of Jones Beach.  On Tuesday and Wednesday 1 was also noted in Jones Inlet and on Wednesday at Nickerson Beach, and this all led up to today, when 5 were
initially seen flying west from Davis Park on central Fire Island, 4 of these shortly thereafter spotted off Robert Moses State Park on western Fire Island and then 4 hours later noted still moving southwest off Breezy Point.  These won’t be the last to be seen along the south shore.

Out at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes an adult ARCTIC TERN was photographed on the mud flats Monday, with other birds there also including a briefly seen flock of 10 WHIMBREL and an AMERICAN BITTERN.

Last week’s WHITE-WINGED DOVE was still being noted Saturday at a private home out in Hampton Bays, with another or the same bird reported Monday in Huntington Station, these residential sites both areas with restricted access and information.

The tropical storm moving through our area this morning provided most of its oceanic activity well out on eastern Long Island, especially off Montauk Point, where totals from this morning’s sea watch included 80 CORY’S, 49 GREAT and 5 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, 258 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and lots of ROSEATE TERNS. Much further west Robert Moses State Park only produced single GREAT and SOOTY SHEARWATERS and a few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, though 8 WHIMBRELS were also noted passing by.  A BLACK TERN was off Smith Point County Park today.

Last Monday a peak of 16 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS was present off Breezy Point, where 34 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted Thursday.

An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER remains in Prospect Park, and among some floaters this week were a couple of WORM-EATING WARBLERS in Central
Park.

BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in the Calverton Grasslands, and the three singing male DICKCISSELS on the landfill at Croton Point Park have happily attracted a female or two, so please remain on the main trail and do not disturb these birds in any manner.

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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-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 2, 2021
* NYNY2107.02

– Birds Mentioned

WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
PURPLE GALLINULE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
WHIMBREL
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Great Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Acadian Flycatcher
Grasshopper Sparrow
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, July 2, 2021 at 8:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, PURPLE GALLINULE, WHIMBREL, GULL-BILLED TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

A somewhat slow week picked up nicely starting Wednesday when an east-bound adult BROWN PELICAN was first spotted off Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes early in the morning, the bird still slowly moving east as it passed Southampton beach just after 2:00 in the afternoon.  Hopefully others will follow.

Also on Wednesday, a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was photographed visiting private feeders in the Landing Estates area of residential Hampton Bays; also present yesterday, there have been no reports from today.

And then Thursday, an adult PURPLE GALLINULE was spotted feeding along the western side of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where it continued today.  The bird has been frequenting the shore edge below the Big John’s Pond overlook, as viewed from the east side of the pond around or below the Raunt.

A GULL-BILLED TERN was also seen at Jamaica Bay Thursday, and last Saturday a WHIMBREL was photographed as it flew over the Visitor’s Center there. 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were also at the Refuge last Saturday, while shorebirds also lingering in small numbers in our region recently have included SEMIPALMATED and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, and LESSER and GREATER YELLOWLEGS.  Southbound shorebirds should be moving in earnest shortly.

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL numbers may have been declining lately along the coast, but ROYAL TERNS are on the increase.

Sea watching continues to be somewhat disappointing along Long Island’s south shore, with only single GREAT SHEARWATER and WILSON’S STORM-PETREL off Robert Moses State Park last Sunday and another GREAT
and 13 WILSON’S there today.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues along the Paumonok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville, this site on the west side of Schultz Road.

An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was still singing in Prospect Park on Wednesday.

A few BLUE GROSBEAKS, along with some GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS and other desirable Grassland birds, continue in the very productive habitat around the former Grumman Airport in Calverton, an area that should be
preserved.

Up to 3 male DICKCISSELS continue to sing around the top of the landfill at Croton Point Park, hopefully loud enough to attract some females.

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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