NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/24/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 24, 2025
* NYNY2510.24

– Birds mentioned
COMMON CUCKOO+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

PINK-FOOTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
Common Eider
EARED GREBE
AMERICAN AVOCET
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Caspian Tern
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
HENSLOW’S SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut 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, October 24th 2025 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON CUCKOO, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, HENSLOW’S SPARROW, WESTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Another spectacular occurrence for New York State features an unfamiliar bird photographed on a Riverhead golf course Thursday that has keyed out to be a COMMON CUCKOO, the first state record pending approval by NYSARC. This Eurasian CUCKOO was relocated Friday morning along the fence lines separating the Cherry Creek Country Club from the adjoining farm and corn fields. This area viewable looking east from Roanoke Avenue a short distance south of Reeves Avenue. With birders initially obtaining permission to visit the golf course and farm would seem to perhaps be an over zealous approach in tracking this vagrant causing it to disappear for a few hours. Later, refound at a paddock next to the golf course parking lot the CUCKOO suddenly took off and headed in a northerly direction. If on Saturday it does return to the fence line and corn field along Roanoke where it was feeding quite successfully, hopefully the bird will be given adequate space to avoid its being pressured off again and in the same spot a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE spent much of Friday in a large Canada Goose flock feeding on the west side of Roanoke Avenue at the south end of the Buffalo Farm. CACKLING GOOSE was also seen.

Westchester County last Saturday, a HENSLOW’S SPARROW was photographed on the landfill at Croton Point Park but could not be relocated.

Last weekend a WESTERN KINGBIRD visited All Faiths Cemetery in southwestern Queens and on Tuesday a female type YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was spotted in a blackbird flock along Horse Mill Lane in Watermill.

The EARED GREBE was spotted again Wednesday on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where 4 CASPIAN TERNS visited the East Pond last Sunday.

Three BROWN PELICANS were spotted Wednesday morning heading west off Coney Island and this morning 4 more were also moving west past Fort Tilden.

Among the shorebirds on Tuesday two AMERICAN AVOCETS stopped by Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park while the 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, often at the south end of Jamaica Bay’s East Pond, had decreased to just one by Wednesday.

At least one of two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS present last Saturday at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye has continued there and a COMMON EIDER paid a surprise visit there last Wednesday.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT appeared Wednesday in Prospect Park where a LARK SPARROW was noted last Saturday.

A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW Saturday at Coney Island Creek was followed by one in Central Park Sunday, another at Randall’s Island Tuesday and another staying in lower Manhattan at Gansevoort Peninsular through today. Several VESPER SPARROWS were encountered.

Warblers included a couple of late CONNECTICUTS and several ORANGE-CROWNEDS while the VE Macy Park and Great Hunger Memorial in Irvington recently hosted a BLUE GROSBEAK and up to 4 DICKCISSELS with another BLUE GROSBEAK at Calvert Vaux Park Sunday and several other DICKCISSELS throughout the area.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/17/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 17, 2025
* NYNY2510.17

– Birds mentioned
BAR-TAILED GODWIT+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Parasitic Jaeger
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Royal Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
American Pipit
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Fox Sparrow
VESPER SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
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, October 17th 2025 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BAR-TAILED GODWIT, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY-COLORED and VESPER SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.

This week’s superb sighting occurred this morning out at Cupsogue Beach County Park when a BAR-TAILED GODWIT was spotted on the sandbar on the lowering tide. This straggly plumaged individual stayed for a short while but moved east on the rising tide and could not be relocated. Chances are reasonable though that it did remain in that area.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the EARED GREBE was last reported from the West Pond last Saturday but could remain there. Among the decent variety of shorebirds continuing at the bay were 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS at the south end of the East Pond Thursday and an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER seen by kayak out in the bay south of the West Pond last Saturday. The variety of waterfowl at the bay is also increasing daily. Another AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was spotted last Saturday at Fort Tilden and a late BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was photographed last weekend at the College Point wetlands in Queens.

Single PARASITIC JAEGERS were spotted off Plumb Beach Sunday and Fort Tilden Monday but more unusual by location were single birds reported Monday and Tuesday off Belden Point on City Island in western Long Island Sound.

Out in the Montauk area a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE spotted off the point on Sunday was followed by an immature off Ditch Plains on Monday. In the seawatch from the point Sunday reported one SOOTY SHEARWATER, 16 CORY’S and 2 GREAT.

A decent 80 ROYAL TERNS were estimated at Jones Beach field 6 on Tuesday.

An early LAPLAND LONGSPUR was identified today at Pike’s Beach in West Hampton Dunes. Single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS occurred last Saturday at Central Park’s north end and at Floyd Bennett Field and a VESPER SPARROW visited Brooklyn Bridge Park Thursday.

An accommodating but presumably disadvantaged YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was still present in Manhattan today around the plantings at the Verizon Plaza just west of Bryant Park between West 41st and 42nd Streets. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was still at Manhattan’s Trinity Church just west of Wall Street at least to Wednesday and another visited Prospect Park Wednesday and a decent number of later warblers also featured some arriving ORANGE-CROWNEDS including 2 today at Cupsogue Beach County Park and another at Hempstead Lake State Park while last Saturday singles were spotted on Randall’s Island and in Prospect Park.

Several DICKCISSELS included birds noted today at Robert Moses State Park and the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center in Yaphank while other seasonal arrivals of interest have included more AMERICAN PIPITS and PURPLE FINCHES and a very few PINE SISKINS and FOX SPARROWS.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/10/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 10, 2025
* NYNY2510.10

– Birds Mentioned
SAY’S PHOEBE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Cackling Goose
EARED GREBE
Eastern Whip-poor-will
AMERICAN AVOCET
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Pine Siskin
LARK SPARROW
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Nelson’s Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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, October
10, 2025 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are SAY’S
PHOEBE, EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, SUMMER TANAGER, AMERICAN AVOCET,
MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

This week’s top highlight is thanks to a posting on Facebook which
turned out to be a SAY’S PHOEBE photographed Tuesday at Jones Beach
West End, but we know of no successful follow-ups.  Certainly data on
birds of this local rarity are worthy of more rapid circulation.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the EARED GREBE was seen regularly on
the West Pond through Tuesday and was reported there again today,
while last Saturday a single HUDSONIAN GODWIT paid a visit to the East
Pond.

Also on Saturday three BROWN PELICANS moving east along western Fire
Island were followed later in the day by perhaps a fourth individual
also working its way east over the ocean.

The two AMERICAN AVOCETS visiting the Oceanside Marine Nature Study
Area since September 30 were not reported there after last Saturday,
while a MARBLED GODWIT was spotted at the Jones Beach West End Coast
Guard Station Thursday.

Another migrant EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was found roosting in Central
Park last Saturday, when an immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was also
spotted there; other RED-HEADEDS this week featured two immatures
migrating west past Robert Moses State Park last Saturday, one at
Pelham Bay Park Tuesday, and one visiting Brooklyn’s Green-Wood
Cemetery today.

A nice find, especially for fall, was a SUMMER TANAGER photographed in
Inwood Hill Park on northern Manhattan last Monday, perhaps the same
bird reported Thursday and Friday in Fort Tryon Park just south of
there.

Among the quickly increasing numbers of SPARROWS this week were a LARK
SPARROW at Robert Moses State Park last Saturday and several
CLAY-COLORED, sightings starting with singles in Central Park and Fort
Tilden Saturday, Prospect Park Monday to Wednesday, Alley Pond Park
Tuesday, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Wednesday, and today at Inwood
Hill Park and Jones Beach West End.  A VESPER SPARROW visited Prospect
Park yesterday and today, with 2 at Randalls Island today, and a
decent number of NELSON’S SPARROWS, including a few inland forms, have
arrived recently, mostly in our coastal marshes.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT visited Central Park last Saturday, with
another in Green-Wood Cemetery Thursday, while another has been in
plantings at the Verizon Plaza just west of Bryant Park between West
41st and 42nd Streets in Central Manhattan since last week.

Among the decent variety of  WARBLERS have been a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS
as well as a CONNECTICUT present Thursday and today at the Trinity
Church gardens just off Wall Street in lower Manhattan.

Single BLUE GROSBEAKS on Thursday at Hunters Point South Park in
Queens, Kissena Park and Robert Moses State Park followed birds last
Sunday in the Bronx and in Irvington in Westchester.  This last site,
at the VE Macy Park – Great Hunger Memorial, also featured two
DICKCISSELS Sunday, with singles also at Alley Pond Park Tuesday and
Fort Tilden today.

Among the various migrants arriving recently have been early reports
of CACKLING GOOSE and PINE SISKIN.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/3/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 3, 2025
* NYNY2510.03

– Birds Mentioned

WOOD STORK+
HAMMOND’S FLYCATCHER+
ARCTIC WARBLER+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher
BROWN BOOBY
EVENING GROSBEAK
LARK SPARROW
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
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

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 3,
2025 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are ARCTIC WARBLER,
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, HAMMOND’S FLYCATCHER, WOOD STORK,
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, BROWN BOOBY, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN AVOCET,
EVENING GROSBEAK, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Quite extraordinary was the discovery last Saturday morning of an Old
World Phylloscopus WARBLER in trees off Wards Meadow Loop near the
Urban Farm on Randalls Island.  This genus, not at all closely related
to the New World Wood Warblers, contains several drab and difficult to
identify species, only one of which breeds in North America, the
Arctic Warbler found in Alaska in summer.  This warbler led observers
on a merry chase around the area, disappearing or staying aloft in the
London Plane trees, but patience did produce some decent photos and
recordings of its call, sufficient to suggest its identity as an
ARCTIC WARBLER.  The bird disappeared in the early afternoon but
fortunately was relocated in the same area Sunday morning, allowing
many excited observers to catch up with this new NYS record, pending
NYSARC approval.  The bird was still being seen in the same area into
Sunday afternoon but could not be found on Monday or subsequently.
Also on Randalls were a nice variety of warblers including a
CONNECTICUT in the Urban Garden as well as BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL
and more.

Among other rarities also found early in the week were a
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER photographed Saturday at Maidstone Park in
East Hampton and a HAMMOND’S FLYCATCHER identified from photos taken
Monday at the Marjorie Post Community Park in Massapequa.  Also
reported was a WOOD STORK noted Sunday and Monday on Plum Island, an
island with restricted access east of Orient Point.  And a female-type
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was photographed Saturday in Far Rockaway but
could not be relocated.

BROWN BOOBY was spotted again Sunday from the north shore of Staten
Island, these birds lingering in Newark Bay in New Jersey.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the EARED GREBE was still on the West
Pond at least to Monday, and an AMERICAN AVOCET appearing there
Saturday moved to the East Pond for Monday and Tuesday, while 2
AMERICAN AVOCETS arriving Tuesday at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study
Area were still there yesterday.

Other notable shorebirds featured both two MARBLED GODWITS at Jamaica
Bay and two HUDSONIAN GODWITS at Old Inlet east of Smith Point County
Park last Saturday, single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Jamaica Bay
Saturday, Governors Island Sunday, Coney Island Creek Monday and Plumb
Beach Wednesday, and a few scattered WHIMBRELS and LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHERS.

A female-type EVENING GROSBEAK photographed flying over the South
Bronx Thursday morning was unexpected.

LARK SPARROWS  were found Tuesday on Randalls Island and at Croton
Point Park, and CLAY COLORED SPARROWS appeared at Jones Beach
Wednesday and in Central Park today, with a VESPER SPARROW at Randalls
Island yesterday.  Single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS, seemingly not faring
well with New York City buildings, were at Morningside Park Saturday
and near Bryant Park today.

WARBLER highlights included a PROTHONOTARY in the Central Park Ravine
Tuesday, an ORANGE-CROWNED in Prospect Park Wednesday, and still a few
CONNECTICUTS.

BLUE GROSBEAKS included 2 in Kissena Park Saturday and 1 on Governors
Island Wednesday, and, expectedly, a few DICKCISSELS were noted,
including at Breezy Point Thursday and Inwood Hill Park Wednesday.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/26/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 26, 2025
* NYNY2509.26

– Birds mentioned
Eared Grebe
Sora
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Brown Booby
American White Pelican
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Grasshopper Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
Prothonotary Warbler
Connecticut 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, September 26th
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are EARED GREBE, AMERICAN
WHITE PELICAN, BROWN BOOBY, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPER, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Monday an EARED GREBE was spotted and photographed on the West Pond at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and reports continued through today but certain
photos have seemed inconclusive and birders are cautioned to identify and
separate the smaller grebes in their changing plumages with care.

The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was also still on the East Pond as of early
Saturday morning but not reported there subsequently and a WHITE PELICAN
seen soaring high over Flatbush and headed in a westerly direction just a
half hour later on Saturday was probably this bird finally moving on. Two
MARBLED GODWITS were present usually at the north end of the East Pond all
week through today and up to 3 HUDSONIAN GODWITS also lingered mostly at
the south end through Wednesday. A decent variety of shorebirds in
diminishing numbers still can be found around the ponds especially around
high tide. One or two SORAS continue along the southwest side of the East
Pond and 7 CASPIAN TERNS were counted there today.

Less common shorebirds spotted this week included an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
noted Saturday at Randall’s Island, a WHIMBREL at Jones Beach West End
today, a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER lingering to Wednesday at Nickerson Beach and
out at Old Inlet west of Smith Point County Park in Shirley a BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPER visiting Monday and still 4 HUDSONIAN GODWITS continuing there
through today.

One or two of a small gathering of BROWN BOOBIES present recently in Newark
Bay in New Jersey was spotted by scanning with a telescope from the
northwestern shore of Staten Island this week.

A report of birds noted from Montauk Point last Saturday morning featured 4
WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and among the shearwaters 2 CORY’S, 14 GREAT and one
each of SOOTY and MANX.

During the week single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were spotted at Conference
House Park on Staten Island Sunday, in Central Park and at Montauk Tuesday
and in Green-wood Cemetery Wednesday.

Among the increasing sparrow numbers were single CLAY-COLOREDS visiting
Fort Totten Park Saturday, Jacob Riis Park over the weekend, Freshkills
Park on Wednesday and Green-wood Cemetery Sunday through today while LARK
SPARROWS were found Monday and Wednesday on Randall’s Island, at Brooklyn
Bridge Park Wednesday and today and at Croton Point Park today with a
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW noted in Manhasset Monday.

Single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS occurred on western Fire Island Monday and in
Green-wood Cemetery Wednesday and Green-wood also added a PROTHONOTARY
WARBLER Thursday following a CONNECTICUT WARBLER last Saturday.

Landbird migration recently has not been overwhelming but has included a
few OLIVE-SIDED and other flycatchers, a decent number of PHILADELPHIA
VIREOS, various thrushes including GRAY-CHEEKED, increasing sparrows
including LINCOLN’S and a continuing variety of warblers. DICKCISSELS were
noted this week at Jamaica Bay Tuesday and Governors Island Wednesday while
BLUE GROSBEAKS visited Fort Tilden Saturday and Monday and Manhasset
Thursday.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/19/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 19, 2025
* NYNY2509.19

– Birds mentioned
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Red-necked Phalarope
Baird’s Sandpiper
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Connecticut 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, with apologies, a very shortened New York Rare Bird
Alert for *Friday, September 19th 2025*. Highlights include WHITE-WINGED
DOVE, WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, MARBLED and
HUDSONIAN GODWITS and other shorebirds, CLAY-COLORED and LARK SPARROWS,
PROTHONOTARY and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Exciting birds continue at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge mostly on the East
Pond but the highlight there was actually in the north garden near the West
Pond where a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was perched for a while last Sunday and
apparently photographed. The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN continues on the East
Pond usually at the north end among Mute Swans and increasing numbers of
ducks. Two MARBLED and up to 5 HUDSONIAN GODWITS also continue on the East
Pond with a variety of other shorebirds.

Three MARBLED GODWITS were also at Mecox last Saturday and 11 HUDSONIAN
GODWITS continued at Old Inlet west of Smith Point County Park to Sunday
with at least 5 there Thursday. Other shorebirds included an UPLAND
SANDPIPER at Croton Point Park last Saturday when 2 WHIMBREL were present
at Floyd Bennett Field. A few BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS included 2 at Nickerson
Beach to Monday, one at Mecox to Tuesday and one at Point Lookout Monday to
Friday. Four RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were reported Sunday off the Port
Jefferson ferry close to Connecticut.

A WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL was photographed Sunday from a fishing boat well
offshore and a seawatch off Montauk Point last Saturday noted small numbers
of WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and CORY’S and GREAT SHEARWATERS and single SOOTY
and MANX SHEARWATERS.

Single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were seen in Central Park Monday and Tuesday
and in Green-wood Cemetery Friday when a LARK SPARROW was also spotted
again at Robert Moses State Park.

Among the good variety of warblers this week were GOLDEN-WINGED at Calvert
Vaux Park Thursday and a PROTHONOTARY at Prospect Park today, both
photographed, as well as over 6 CONNECTICUTS in various local parks and
decent numbers of other species.

Single BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted at Jamaica Bay and in Prospect Park Sunday
and in Green-wood Cemetery Monday and several mostly overhead DICKCISSELS
included one at Breezy Point 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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/12/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 12, 2025
* NYNY2509.12

– Birds Mentioned
Scopoli’s Shearwater+
(+Details requested by NYSARC)

Sora
American Golden-Plover
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Wilson’s Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s 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, September
12, 2025 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN
WHITE PELICAN, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED, BAIRD’S
and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge high water persists, but so does the
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, reported today at the north end of the East
Pond.  Shorebird numbers have dropped on the two ponds during the
week, but the 2 MARBLED GODWITS stayed around the East Pond at least
to Monday, while the HUDSONIAN GODWITS visiting there peaked at 4
Monday and still featured 2 or 3 at the south end of the East Pond
today.  SORA also continues along that pond’s southwest edge, and 2
WILSON’S PHALAROPES were on the West Pond Saturday, just 1 Sunday.

A MARBLED GODWIT also visited Oak Beach Sunday, while out at Old Inlet
west of Smith Point County Park in Shirley, 6 HUDSONIAN GODWITS
counted last Saturday increased to 12 today.

Other highlights among the shorebirds featured an AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER at Floyd Bennett Field Sunday, following a WHIMBREL
there Saturday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER seen Sunday on the sod fields
along Route 51 in Eastport. Two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS lingered
around Nickerson Beach from last week through today, while 1 was on
the Route 51 sod fields last Sunday, and another visited Democrat
Point at Robert Moses State Park on Monday.  A BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was
encountered on Amawalk Reservoir in Somers last Saturday, and 2
appeared at Nickerson Beach Monday, where a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was
spotted the day before.

Gatherings of TERNS at Oak Beach Sunday provided a GULL-BILLED, 2 each
of BLACK and ROSEATE, and 43 ROYAL, while Old Inlet today featured 14
CASPIAN and 45 ROYAL TERNS.

Mini pelagic trips aboard the CRESLI whale boats from Montauk or shore
watches from sites like Montauk Point west to Robert Moses State Park
continue to be productive, this week providing some WILSON’S
STORM-PETRELS and CORY’S and GREAT SHEARWATERS, with other SHEARWATERS
including carefully identified SCOPOLI’S, a late SOOTY or two, an
occasional MANX and often a few PARASITIC JAEGERS.  Also photographed
from Montauk Point last Saturday were 2 apparent LEACH’S
STORM-PETRELS.

Several OLIVE-SIDED, YELLOW-BELLIED and other FLYCATCHERS were noted
this week.  LARK SPARROWS included 1 or 2 in Green-Wood Cemetery
Saturday to Thursday, another 2 at Robert Moses State Park Field 2
down to 1 by Thursday, singles in Laurel Sunday and on Randalls Island
Monday, and 1 today at Davis Park on Fire Island.  A VESPER SPARROW
appeared at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Monday, while a YELLOW
BREASTED CHAT visited Wellwyn Preserve in Glen Cove yesterday.

Among the two dozen or so WARBLERS currently moving through were
single GOLDEN-WINGEDS at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island Monday to
Thursday and at Stony Brook University Tuesday, others noted also
including CONNECTICUT, MOURNING, HOODED, BAY-BREASTED and WILSON’S.

A few BLUE GROSBEAKS continue around Calverton, and single DICKCISSELS
were found at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye Sunday and at Inwood Hill
Park in Manhattan Tuesday.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/5/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 05, 2025
* NYNY2509.05

– Birds Mentioned
Scopoli’s Shearwater+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Mute Swan
Sora
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
CONNECTICUT 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 5, 2025 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED, BAIRD’S and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, a good flight of pelagics, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, DICKCISSEL and more.

This week’s surprise was certainly the BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER recognizably photographed on Fisher’s Island last Sunday, the bird located much closer to Connecticut than mainland New York.

Exciting activity continues at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge despite the East Pond’s high water level, with the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN most often staying around the north end of the pond among the MUTE SWANS.  The nice variety of shorebirds, especially around high tide in the bay, has recently featured one or two of both MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, singles of both noted today, but they do move around, and 1 or more of both RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES have been present during the week, seen on both the East and West Ponds, so scan carefully among the feeding flocks.  Also watch for the SORA continuing along the west side of the East Pond, and the 3 CASPIAN TERNS visiting today.  An UPLAND SANDPIPER was heard passing over the North Channel Bridge at the Bay Saturday.

Recently arriving flocks of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS to the agricultural fields in the Riverhead area featured about 70 spotted last Saturday off Manor Lane in Jamesport and 45 noted Tuesday along Osborn Avenue near Baiting Hollow, with a smaller group of 6 a little further west off Edwards Avenue Sunday.  When present, they will roam about this area, and there were also 3 down at Mecox Wednesday, where 3 MARBLED GODWITS were noted Sunday.  Another MARBLED was back again at Jones Beach Field 10 Sunday, while additional HUDSONIAN GODWITS included 1 at Cupsogue Beach County Park Sunday and 1 visiting Plumb Beach today.

Other notable shorebirds featured 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS off Manor Lane last Saturday, plus 1 at Nickerson Beach Wednesday increasing to 2 by today, and single BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were reported from Croton Point Park Saturday, off Manor Lane Monday, and today along Depot Lane in Cutchogue and out at Old Inlet west of Smith Point County Park in Shirley.  

Some exciting flights of seabirds took place off eastern Long Island early this week; last weekend a significant flight off Shinnecock Saturday was followed by good numbers off Mecox and Sagg Main Beach Sunday, these featuring many CORY’S-type and GREAT SHEARWATERS, with a few SCOPOLI’S and MANX.  Tuesday off Old Inlet birds reported included 33 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, CORY’S-type and GREAT SHEARWATERS and a PARASITIC JAEGER, plus a MARBLED GODWIT and 7 WHIMBREL and 6 CASPIAN and 75 ROYAL TERNS.  

The CRESLI boats off Montauk and sea watching from shore there also produced some CORY’S and GREAT SHEARWATERS plus small numbers of SCOPOLI’S and MANX
SHEARWATERS, some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and PARASITIC JAEGER.  113 ROYAL TERNS were counted at Plumb Beach today, and there were 3 BLACK TERNS spotted off Cupsogue Wednesday.

Highlights among this week’s landbirds featured a LARK SPARROW in Manhasset Sunday followed by 2 at Robert Moses State Park Field 2 Wednesday and Thursday, and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Monday in Central Park’s north end, with another today at Hoyt Farm Town Park in Commack.  Among the many WARBLERS noted, main highlights included a GOLDEN-WINGED in Prospect Park Saturday and single CONNECTICUTS at the Pruyn Sanctuary in Chappaqua Sunday, Kissena Park Tuesday and Wednesday and Prospect Park Thursday.  DICKCISSELS now on the move included 1 over Coney Island Creek Park Saturday morning.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/29/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 29, 2025
* NYNY2508.29

– Birds mentioned
SARGASSO SHEARWATER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Common Nighthawk
Sora
SANDHILL CRANE
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Red Knot
Stilt Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATER
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Red-breasted Nuthatch
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Bobolink
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
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 29th
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN,
SANDHILL CRANE, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS,
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, WILSON’S and RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, SCOPOLI’S and
SARGASSO SHEARWATERS, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED,
PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, DICKCISSEL and more.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to be a very productive destination
despite the continuing higher than desired water level on the East Pond.
The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN continues usually at the north end of the pond
working there among the Mute Swans though it does go elsewhere on occasion.
Decent numbers of shorebirds on the pond have this week, especially during
high tide, featured up to 3 each of RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES
moving between the north and south ends and a good variety including a
couple of MARBLED GODWITS, RED KNOT and STILT, WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL and
WESTERN SANDPIPERS. A SORA also continues along the western shore of the
south end and watch for GULL-BILLED, CASPIAN and other terns there.

A couple of MARBLED GODWITS were on the flats at Mecox Wednesday with
another back at Jones Beach field 10 today and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT last
Sunday visited Cupsogue Beach County Park where today one BLACK, 2 CASPIAN
and 125 ROYAL TERNS were present.

Hawk season is beginning and single SANDHILL CRANES have already flown by 2
local watches, the Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch at the Butler Sanctuary in
Bedford Monday and the Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch at the Greenwich Audubon
Center Tuesday.

Other shorebirds this week featured 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Crab
Meadow Beach in Northport today, single WHIMBRELS out on Jamaica Bay
Sunday, at Plumb Beach Monday and at Croton Point Park in Westchester
Thursday and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER on the flats Sunday at Great Kills
Park where a young GULL-BILLED TERN visited during the week.

A LARK SPARROW found Wednesday near Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona
Park was still present there Thursday.

Single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were spotted in Central Park Sunday and
Tuesday with another found deceased Tuesday in lower Manhattan, a building
strike victim.

A good selection of warblers this week featured single GOLDEN-WINGEDS in
Central Park Tuesday and Wednesday and another Wednesday in Battery Park, a
male PROTHONOTARY in Central Park’s Ramble Monday, and a CONNECTICUT nicely
photographed at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye today. Decent numbers also
included some arriving MOURNING, HOODED, BAY-BREASTED, and BLACKPOLL
WARBLERS,

This week’s large variety of migrants included increasing numbers of COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS in the evening flights, several OLIVE-SIDED and some
YELLOW-BELLIED and other flycatchers, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, BOBOLINK and a
few usually coastal DICKCISSELS often noted as they pass overhead early on
detected by their distinctive but sometimes embarrassing calls.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/22/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 22, 2025
* NYNY2508.22

– Birds mentioned
Sora
BLACK-NECKED STILT
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
SANDWICH TERN
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
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 22nd
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SANDWICH TERN, AMERICAN
WHITE PELICAN, BLACK-NECKED STILT, MARBLED GODWIT, WILSON’S PHALAROPE,
BAIRD’S and UPLAND SANDPIPERS and other shorebirds, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER,
GOLDEN-WINGED and other warblers, DICKCISSEL and more.

A few SANDWICH TERNS found last Friday on the flats at Cupsogue Beach
County Park were both still present there last weekend but have not been
seen since.

The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN continues at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where
it is most often seen at the north end of the East Pond though it does also
wander occasionally about the refuge or around the northern end of Jamaica
Bay. While the conditions on the East Pond are not ideal for shorebirds a
nice variety of shorebirds has been present recently and the East and West
Ponds have been productive around high tide. Last Sunday for the Shorebird
Festival a MARBLED GODWIT showed up on flats just south of the West Pond
disappearing once the tide rose. While the ponds have been producing such
shorebirds as a WILSON’S PHALAROPE on the East Pond Saturday and Monday, a
WHIMBREL over the East Pond Saturday and such species as PECTORAL, STILT,
WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and one or two LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS
among the more expected birds and the variety at the bay doesn’t stop there
with a SORA noted regularly along the southwest side of the East Pond and
continued presence of a couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS mostly at the south end
of the East Pond, a visiting CASPIAN TERN or two and a BLACK TERN on the
East Pond Sunday to Tuesday. Jamaica Bay is certainly worth a visit despite
the high water especially during the two to three hours before and after
high tide but be careful of walking the edges of the East Pond.

Other local shorebirds featured a BLACK-NECKED STILT noted for a short
while Tuesday on the bar off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station
before it flew off.

Also noteworthy was an UPLAND SANDPIPER dropping down at Green-wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn last Friday the 15th.

Out at Cupsogue the variety of birds there also featured a LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER Saturday and two CASPIAN TERNS Tuesday while single BAIRD’S
SANDPIPERS were spotted at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn Sunday and at Robert
Moses State Park field 2 Monday.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue out in the Calverton area especially along
the Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road near Jones Pond in Manorville.

Recent landbird migrants have featured single OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS in
Green-wood Cemetery and Prospect Park as well as in the Bronx and
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS have also been mentioned.

While the increasing variety of warblers featured a GOLDEN-WINGED spotted
in Central Park today as well as such species as WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE,
NASHVILLE, MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY and WILSON’S and a DICKCISSEL was
heard moving over Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn early this morning.

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