-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 15, 2023
* NYNY2309.15
– Birds Mentioned
COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
SAY’S PHOEBE+
NORTHERN WHEATEAR
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Sora
American Golden-Plover
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Caspian Tern
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
Philadelphia Vireo
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut 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
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 15, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, ROSEATE SPOONBILL, NORTHERN WHEATEAR, SAY’S PHOEBE, WESTERN KINGBIRD, TOWNSEND’S WARBLER, BUFF-BREASTED, BAIRD’S and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, PROTHONOTARY and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and much more.
The second of apparently two different COMMON RINGED PLOVERS out at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay was reported there last weekend but not definitively recently and may have also departed. Good numbers of shorebirds still there last Sunday did include 17 MARBLED GODWITS, a WHIMBREL and 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, plus 4 CASPIAN TERNS. This site requires a 2 mile walk out along the beach from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley.
On the other hand, the ROSEATE SPOONBILL on Willow Pond in Hewlett Bay Park was still present today, roosting on the pond as viewed from Everit Avenue. The closest parking is at Hewlett High School a couple of blocks away.
On Wednesday evening a NORTHERN WHEATEAR was seen briefly on top of the landfill at Croton Point Park in Westchester, this preceded the day before by a SAY’S PHOEBE tracked for a while as it moved around the landfill late in the day at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, while on Monday a WESTERN KINGBIRD was spotted at Caumsett State Park in Suffolk. All three birds were photographed, but none could be relocated subsequently.
This morning a TOWNSEND’S WARBLER was photographed at the Rocky Point State Pine Barrens Preserve, where a subsequent visit this afternoon also uncovered a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER.
Among the shorebird highlights this week were an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and a WHIMBREL visiting Heckscher State Park today, an UPLAND SANDPIPER at Croton Point Park Thursday, a MARBLED GODWIT plus a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER at Breezy Point last Saturday, up to four BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS in the sod fields along Route 51 in Manorville last weekend, with three more at Nickerson Beach Tuesday, and two WESTERN SANDPIPERS at Plumb Beach Saturday.
Two CASPIAN TERNS visited Timber Point Thursday and Heckscher State Park today, while an accommodating SORA fed on the pond by the Van Cortlandt Park golf clubhouse early in the week. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER appeared in Central Park’s north end Tuesday.
Several PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were reported this week, and a recent CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was in Flushing Meadows Corona Park yesterday.
YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS this week were found yesterday in Central Park, at Sunken Meadow State Park, and in Davis Park on Fire Island.
A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was a nice find Monday and Tuesday at the Frank Melville Memorial Park and Mill Pond in Setauket, and today a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was spotted last Sunday. Among the many other WARBLERS were a few CONNECTICUTS, including singles reported at Pelham Bay Tuesday, in Central Park’s north end Thursday, and in Forest Park today.
Several BLUE GROSBEAKS included two at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue Monday, one in Green-Wood Cemetery and two at Robert Moses State Park Thursday, and one at Caumsett State Park today, while a DICKCISSEL was found in Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday.
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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