-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 7, 2021
* NYNY2105.07
WOOD STORK+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
KING EIDER
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW
Sora
WHIMBREL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
CASPIAN TERN
ROYAL TERN
Northern Gannet
LEAST BITTERN
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Swainson’s Thrush
EVENING GROSBEAK
Grasshopper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
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, May 7, 2021 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD STORK, WHITE-FACED IBIS, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, KING EIDER, LEAST BITTERN, WHIMBREL, CASPIAN and ROYAL TERNS, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, EVENING GROSBEAK, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
This week’s prize find is certainly the WOOD STORK present through today out in Westhampton. Photographed Monday and Tuesday and perhaps seen the day before, it wasn’t until Thursday that its whereabouts were pinned down. Both Thursday and today it was located just south of Montauk Highway along Beaverdam Creek just a little west of where Montauk Highway crosses the intersection of Old Country Road to the north and Mill Road on the South side. The bird apparently has a favored roosting tree and feeds along the creek, and today it was also noted feeding further south down the creek as viewed from the end of Baycrest Avenue on the East side of the creek.
The WHITE-FACED IBIS from last Friday was seen again Saturday and Monday in the Captree Island marshes.
A CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was a good find in Prospect Park last Saturday as it sat well-camouflaged on the ground.
Among the decent variety of lingering waterfowl were 3 KING EIDER, a young male off Fort Tilden Sunday and two females off Far Rockaway Beach Wednesday.
A LEAST BITTERN had returned to Arshamomaque Preserve in Greenport West as of yesterday, and among the shorebirds, 3 WHIMBRELS were found at Fort Tilden Saturday.
Very early was a ROYAL TERN spotted at Robert Moses State Park Wednesday, with one also seen at Arshamomaque Preserve the next day, while a CASPIAN TERN visited Croton Point Park last Sunday.
An ICELAND GULL was reported at Heckscher State Park Monday, and a count at Moses Park Wednesday featured 17 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 40 NORTHERN GANNETS.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS moving through included individuals at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn Monday and in Central Park today.
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was a nice find in Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens yesterday, and other notable migrant SPARROWS lately have included GRASSHOPPER, WHITE-CROWNED and LINCOLN’S.
Highlights among the 30 or so WARBLER species passing through despite the weather conditions this week were a YELLOW-THROATED in Central Park Saturday and a KENTUCKY in Greenwood Cemetery Monday and Tuesday. A nice push of CERULEAN WARBLERS last Sunday produced reports from Central, Prospect and Riverside Parks, and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was reported during the week from Central and Prospect Parks and Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers. Other arriving WARBLERS included TENNESSEE, BAY-BREASTED, CANADA and WILSON’S as well as more WORM-EATING, HOODED, CAPE MAY and an overall nice variety.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT occurred in Central Park Tuesday.
SUMMER TANAGER reports included one in Green-Wood Cemetery last Saturday and another at Rockefeller State Park Preserve on Tuesday, while BLUE GROSBEAKS were found in Central Park Sunday and Tuesday, at Robert Moses State Park Wednesday and also out on Eastern Long Island at breeding sites by Thursday.
EVENING GROSBEAKS still visiting city parks this week have been a real treat, with 12 reported in Central Park yesterday.
Other recent arrivals have included COMMON NIGHTHAWK, SORA, YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, WILLOW and LEAST FLYCATCHERS and SWAINSON’S THRUSH.
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
