-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 29, 2023
* NYNY2309.29
– Birds Mentioned
RUFF+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Baird’s Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Pectoral Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
LEACH’S STORM-PETREL
Cory’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Vesper Sparrow
Nelson’s Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
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 29, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, ROSEATE SPOONBILL, RUFF, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, LEACH’S STORM-PETREL, MANX SHEARWATER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and much more.
Certainly unexpected was a female-type BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK seen and heard calling at Willowbrook Park on Staten Island Thursday morning, but follow-up attempts to find this bird were apparently not successful.
The ROSEATE SPOONBILL visiting Willow Pond in Hewlett Bay Park was still present at least to Wednesday, usually visible from Everit Avenue, with parking available at Hewlett High School a couple of blocks away.
A non-breeding RUFF was photographed Wednesday with some GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area, flying off shortly thereafter.
A decent week for shorebirds regionally, thanks in part to the lingering storm system, did include a nice flock of 23 HUDSONIAN GODWITS moving by Robert Moses State Park last Saturday, while singles were also seen at Fort Tilden Sunday, on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, and at Field 7 at Heckscher State Park
Wednesday and today.
MARBLED GODWITS included a group of up to 18 counted on the bar off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station on Wednesday, with at least 10 still there yesterday.
Single WHIMBREL visited Randall’s Island Sunday, Moses Park Monday, Heckscher Park Tuesday and Thursday, and Miller Field on Staten Island Tuesday and today.
A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was spotted on the Route 51 sod fields just east of route 111 in Eastport yesterday and today, and another was in a field along Sound Avenue in Riverhead on Tuesday, where it was
difficult to find amongst a huge flock of an estimated 380 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. An earlier large flock of 226 PECTORALS was counted Saturday at Floyd Bennett Field. Two BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were on the route 51 sod fields last Sunday, with two others visiting Heckscher State Park Monday and another today at Robert Moses State Park.
And there were also a few AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS early in the week, including three each at Breezy Point Sunday, Moses Park Monday, and Plumb Beach Tuesday, plus one at Croton Point Park Monday and Tuesday.
On Sunday a MANX SHEARWATER was reported off Fort Tilden, and more unusual that day were reports of single LEACH’S STORM-PETRELS off City Island in the Bronx and off Conference House Park on Staten Island. A few SHEARWATERS seen from Robert Moses State Park and other shore points to the west included a few CORY’S and GREAT and even a late SOOTY or two, as well as a few PARASITIC JAEGERS, including six off Moses Park and four off Fort Tilden last Sunday.
Seven CASPIAN TERNS were counted at Breezy Point Sunday, and three BLACK TERNS were off City Island Tuesday, with another photographed at Flushing Meadows Corona Park Wednesday. One hundred thirty-two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted around Moses Park on Monday, with others scattered about.
A YELLOW BREASTED CHAT was still at Croton Point Park Saturday, and a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was still lingering at Frank Melville Memorial Park in Setauket at least to yesterday.
Other landbirds included OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, some incoming ORANGE-CROWNED and a few CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, and VESPER, NELSON’S and LINCOLN’S SPARROWS .
Single BLUE GROSBEAKS were spotted at Heckscher State Park Thursday and on Governor’s Island Sunday, and DICKCISSELS included singles in Brooklyn Botanical Garden and Bush Terminal Piers 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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