NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/6/23

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 6, 2023
* NYNY2310.06

– Birds mentioned
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Parasitic Jaeger
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
Pine Siskin
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
Prothonotary Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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 6th, 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are ROSEATE SPOONBILL, BROWN PELICAN, WESTERN KINGBIRD, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, MANX SHEARWATER, and other pelagics, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

The long-staying ROSEATE SPOONBILL visiting Willow Pond in Hewlett Bay Park as viewed from Everit Avenue was still present at least to Tuesday with parking available at Hewlett High School a couple of blocks away.

An interesting late incursion of BROWN PELICANS took place last Sunday when birders at Breezy Point spotted small flocks of mostly immatures heading east on the ocean. The total of 39 birds was duplicated a little later with 40 birds counted off Fort Tilden. On Monday 7 PELICANS were seen passing by central Fire Island and Tuesday produced 3 moving west off Cupsogue County Park but there have been no subsequent reports.

A nice fall specialty was a WESTERN KINGBIRD reported briefly last Tuesday at Great Kills Park on Staten Island.

Last week’s large gathering of MARBLED GODWITS in Jones Inlet continued into the week with up to 16 still present Monday and at least 8 to Wednesday. An HUDSONIAN GODWIT was also noted accompanying them on Monday. The GODWITS first appear on the bar off the West End Coast Guard Station as the tide drops and they soon head out to the bar across the inlet especially if there is disruptive activity on the adjacent shoreline. Another HUDSONIAN GODWIT was still present at least to Tuesday around field 8 at Heckscher State Park. Five WHIMBREL were noted the past few days at Davis Park out on Fire Island with singles at Plumb Beach yesterday and at Staten Island’s Miller Field and out in East Hampton last Saturday. Last Saturday 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were still at the sod fields off Route 51 just east of Route 111 in Eastport and that day another was on the Riverhead sod fields along with 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS. Saturday also produced a GOLDEN-PLOVER at Fort Tilden while a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER visited Breezy Point yesterday.

Last Sunday seawatches off Robert Moses State Park field 2 tallied single MANX and SOOTY SHEARWATERS in the afternoon plus a few CORY’S and GREAT SHEARWATERS and some active PARASITIC JAEGERS.

Montauk Point Saturday produced larger numbers of CORY’S and GREAT SHEARWATERS while PARASITIC JAEGER was also seen off Fort Tilden and Breezy Point last weekend.

One or two BLACK TERNS were off Breezy Point during the week and a few CASPIAN TERNS were scattered along the coast.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER visited Green-wood Cemetery Tuesday. A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found in Central Park’s north end yesterday with single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were noted to Thursday in Green-wood Cemetery and in Central Park today with 2 in Bushwick Inlet Park in Brooklyn Wednesday. On Monday YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were uncovered in Massapequa Preserve and at Sunken Meadow State Park the latter also present Tuesday and a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was still at Frank Melville Memorial Park in Setauket to Sunday.

A SUMMER TANAGER was photographed off the boardwalk at Robert Moses State Park last Sunday and BLUE GROSBEAKS occurred on Governors Island Sunday, Pelham Bay Monday and off Route 120 along the edge of the Westchester County Airport Thursday and today. Several DICKCISSELS were noted including 2 each at Coney Island Creek and Breezy Point on Sunday and a few PINE SISKINS have occurred recently.

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, 9/29/23

-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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/22/23

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 22, 2023
* NYNY2309.22

– Birds mentioned
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
BELL’S VIREO+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

HUDSONIAN GODWIT
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Golden-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Connecticut Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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 22nd 2023 at 9pm. The highlights of today’s tape are ROSEATE SPOONBILL, BELL’S VIREO, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, the continuing slightly extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

A ROSEATE SPOONBILL was still visiting Willow Pond in Hewlett Bay Park today, usually visible from Everit Avenue. Nearby parking is available at Hewlett High School a couple of blocks away.

A BELL’S VIREO was identified from photos taken last Saturday at Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove. This quite bright individual could not subsequently be relocated.

A female type YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was seen briefly near the Ponquogue Bridge west of Shinnecock Inlet last Tuesday but quickly disappeared.

A NEOTROPIC CORMORANT continues along the Hudson River in the Newburgh area occasionally crossing over to the Beacon waterfront but more often seen near the Newburgh ferry dock or south of there near the Global Oil terminal along River Road.

A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was still visiting the sod fields along Route 51 out in Eastport last Sunday and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was spotted at Floyd Bennett Field on Monday. The water level remains quite high on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge when an HUDSONIAN GODWIT was spotted at the pond’s north end last Saturday. Perhaps this same bird photographed at the south end today.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted in Prospect Park Sunday and Central Park yesterday with 3 still present along Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond Saturday this off Schultz Road in Manorville.

Single LARK SPARROWS were spotted at Rockaway Beach last Saturday and on Roosevelt Island yesterday while recent CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS included one in Prospect Park Wednesday and singles Thursday in Van Cortlandt Park and Bushwick Inlet Park in Brooklyn. A VESPER SPARROW was at Croton Point Park Thursday and quite a few LINCOLN’S SPARROWS arrived recently.

YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were spotted at Pelham Bay Park Tuesday and Croton Point Park Thursday and a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was a nice find at the Frank Melville Memorial Park in Setauket present there Thursday and today. Single GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS were reported last weekend at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island Saturday and in Central Park and Prospect Park on Sunday and several reports of CONNECTICUT WARBLER included singles in Central Park Wednesday and Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn Thursday.

SUMMER TANAGER was reported in Central Park both from the Ramble and at the north end between Saturday and Tuesday and quite a few BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted in the NYC area including one each in Prospect Park and Bush Terminal Piers Park Tuesday and one in Kissena Park and 2 on Roosevelt Island on Wednesday. Several DICKCISSELS have also been noted recently mostly as calling flybys and among the other more notable migrants lately have been a few OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS plus several empidonax species and a decent number of PHILADELPHIA VIREOS.

The raptor migration has also produced a nice number of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS this week. Between Tuesday and Thursday the Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch at the Butler Sanctuary in Bedford and the Quaker Ridge site at the Audubon Center in northwestern Greenwich, which contained virtually no overlap, counted a combined 46,500 BROAD-WINGEDS.

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, 9/15/23

-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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/8/23

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 8, 2023
* NYNY2309.08

– Birds mentioned
COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER+
FRANKLIN’S GULL+
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Blue Grosbeak

– 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 8th, 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, ROSEATE SPOONBILL, pelagic trip results including LONG-TAILED JAEGER, WHITE-FACED and BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS, AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, FRANKLIN’S GULL, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW and YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CONNECTICUT and KENTUCKY WARBLERS.

A COMMON RINGED PLOVER continues around Old Inlet in Bellport Bay but the bird seen recently through today is apparently a different individual from the one found initially back on August 19th and may have been present since August 27th when this slightly differently plumaged bird was first noted. Reaching this site requires about a 2-mile walk west along the beach from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley and the bird is at times on flats a half-mile or so farther to the northwest depending on the tidal situation but there are lots of birds there to keep one occupied.

This week’s highlights included counts of up to 15 or so MARBLED GODWITS and 13 WHIMBREL, 1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, a single BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and WILSON’S PHALAROPE as well as a few CASPIAN TERNS mixed in with the many ROYAL TERNS.

Last Saturday evening a ROSEATE SPOONBILL was found on Willow Pond in Hewlett Bay Park and has been roosting at that location through today. The pond viewing point is along Everit Avenue, a street on which there is no parking. The closest parking is likely at Hewlett High School a couple of blocks away but that could be a problem when the school is open.

A pelagic trip aboard the American Princess left Sheepshead Bay last Monday evening and made its way to the mouth of the Hudson Canyon before returning to Brooklyn Tuesday night. The trip’s avian highlights included 2 LONG-TAILED JAEGERS, 1 WHITE-FACED, 8 BAND-RUMPED and over 4,300 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, 14 CORY’S, 34 GREAT and 6 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS, 29 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 6 BLACK TERNS and a WHIMBREL. Also seen were two Sperm Whales, some Common, Bottle-nosed and Rizzo’s Dolphins, Pilot Whales, some Hammerhead Sharks and quite a few Loggerhead Sea Turtles.

An adult FRANKLIN’S GULL visited the Ossining waterfront on the Hudson River for a while last Saturday before moving south.

Sightings of BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER this week included a couple on sod fields along Route 51 in Eastport just east of Route 111 or on Head of the Neck Road just west of there, these present today, with 2 others at Nickerson Beach yesterday. Single BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were reported today at Plumb Beach and Nickerson Beach and on Wednesday at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area, the Route 51 fields and Croton Point Park. MARBLED GODWIT was still out in Jamaica Bay last Sunday and some WESTERN SANDPIPERS are showing up.

A large gathering of shearwaters a few miles south of Napeague Monday included mostly GREAT and some CORY’S.

Key landbirds this week included CLAY-COLORED SPARROW noted at Floyd Bennett Field to Thursday and at Jamaica Bay and Croton Point Park today. The YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was spotted in Orient Monday. Single CONNECTICUT WARBLERS were reported in Alley Pond Park and at Conference House Park Monday and at Sunken Meadow State Park Tuesday with a KENTUCKY WARBLER in Forest Park Monday. Two BLUE GROSBEAKS were in the restricted East Hampton town dump last Sunday.

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, 9/1/23

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 1, 2023
* NYNY2309.01

– Birds Mentioned

COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
GREAT SKUA+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
Mississippi Kite (slightly extralimital)+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Baird’s Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
BROWN PELICAN
Philadelphia Vireo
Grasshopper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY 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 1, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, GREAT SKUA and LONG-TAILED JAEGER, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED, PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKISSEL and more.

The COMMON RINGED PLOVER found on August 19th out at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay was last seen there around mid-day last Monday. A nice variety of Shorebirds there that day also featured one HUDSONIAN and five MARBLED GODWITS, 7 WHIMBREL, and 1 each of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, while among the TERNS there were 3 CASPIAN and around 60 ROYAL. This site is reached by walking west about 2 miles along the beach from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley.

The Staten Island NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was seen again Tuesday along Lemon Creek as viewed from the bridge on Hylan Boulevard, and the one along the Newburgh waterfront in Orange County is still present.

Two interesting pelagic birds last weekend began with a Skua photographed early last Saturday moving east off Smith Point County Park, an analysis of the photos pointing to this bird as an immature GREAT SKUA. Then on Sunday morning a Jaeger photographed from a boat off Eaton’s Neck in Long Island Sound proved to be a dark immature LONG-TAILED JAEGER – two great finds.

On Wednesday 7 BROWN PELICANS were lounging on the shore at Jones Beach West End until flushed by a truck, and 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS were spotted offshore.

The 2 lingering AMERICAN AVOCETS were still visiting Mecox Bay near the inlet yesterday, and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT along with 3 WESTERN SANDPIPERS and 3 CASPIAN TERNS were in the Field 7 puddles at Heckscher State Park last Wednesday.

Other BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS included one at Jones Beach West End last Saturday and one on the Route 51 Fields in Eastport Wednesday.

At Breezy Point Sunday there were 4 GULL-BILLED TERNS and 18 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.

Slightly extralimital, a MISSISSIPPI KITE passed over the Quaker Ridge hawk watch in northwestern Greenwich Thursday, heading for Westchester.

Last Sunday a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and a LARK SPARROW was found at Watch Hill on Fire Island, with another LARK SPARROW appearing on the landfill at Croton Point Park on Wednesday.

Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were banded at the JFK Sanctuary at Tobay last Saturday, and another appeared at Conference House Park on Staten Island Sunday.

Among the rarer fall WARBLERS, a GOLDEN-WINGED visited Central Park Wednesday and Thursday, and another was found in Prospect Park today, while early CONNECTICUTS were reported yesterday in Central Park and at Strack Pond in Forest Park, Queens. Strack Pond also produced a PROTHONOTARY Tuesday, with another in Manhattan’s Bryant Park today, while the one in Green-Wood Cemetery was last seen last Saturday.

At least three BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted last Saturday at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue, and a DICKCISSEL was noted in Broad Channel yesterday. A couple of PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were also reported this week.

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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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/25/23

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 25, 2023
* NYNY2308.25

– Birds Mentioned

COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
Semipalmated Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Golden-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Cerulean 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

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 25, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Saturday out at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay, a COMMON RINGED PLOVER was identified among a large group of SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and nicely photographed to support the identification. This bird has continued there through today, usually seen along the flats on the east side of
Old Inlet – to reach this location does require about a 2 mile walk along the beach, going west from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley.

Among the other shorebirds seen around Old Inlet have been up to five MARBLED GODWITS, an HUDSONIAN GODWIT Wednesday, and an occasional WHIMBREL, plus a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER spotted there Tuesday.

A NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, likely the same bird found on Staten Island on June 11th, was seen Monday evening perched in a tree over Lemon Creek as viewed from the Hylan Boulevard Bridge. Another NEOTROPIC continues up in the Newburgh area.

This good week for shorebird variety included two AMERICAN AVOCETS continuing around Mecox Inlet at least through Wednesday, and a group of 11 MARBLED GODWITS counted on the Cupsogue Beach County Park flats on Monday. Single MARBLEDS were also noted out in Jamaica Bay last Saturday and at Lido Beach on Tuesday, while three HUDSONIAN GODWITS were present briefly on the spit off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End last Monday. A WHIMBREL was also in Jamaica Bay Wednesday. The water levels at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge itself remain too high on the East Pond for major shorebirds concentrations, but a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER did visit the West Pond Sunday, and other highlights there did include one BLACK and two CASPIAN TERNS Saturday and up to three continuing GULL-BILLED TERNS.

A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was a nice find at Plumb Beach yesterday, and during the week up to 3 WESTERN SANDPIPERS visited the Field 7 puddles at Heckscher State Park, where a WILSON’S PHALAROPE also dropped in on Monday. Two RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were spotted Sunday evening off Pier 57 in Manhattan but did not stay, and five more were seen Wednesday from the CRESLI whale watching boat out of Montauk.

Numbers of seabirds have been present recently in the waters off Montauk Point, today for instance providing over 500 CORY’S and 250 GREAT SHEARWATERS, some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and a couple of PARASITIC JAEGERS.

In the shrubbery around the Montauk Point circle road this week were a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at least to Thursday and two LARK SPARROWS seen Tuesday, with one through today. Other LARK SPARROWS included one at Watch Hill on Fire Island Saturday and one at Breezy Point Tuesday.

A PHILADELPHIA VIREO visited Central Park Tuesday, and a few YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS this week included singles in Central Park Sunday and Green-Wood Cemetery Monday.

Among the good variety of WARBLERS this week were single PROTHONOTARIES in Green-Wood Cemetery from Sunday through today, in Northville Monday, and in Central Park Wednesday, while unusual were several reports of GOLDEN-WINGED, including in Central and Alley Pond Parks, and a CERULEAN also from Alley Saturday. Other migrants included OLIVE-SIDED and all five eastern EMPIDONAX FLYCATCHERS, as well as a few DICKCISSELS – these usually detected by their overheard flight 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.

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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/18/23

 RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 18, 2023
* NYNY2308.18

– Birds mentioned
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER+
BRIDLED TERN+
SANDWICH TERN+
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Least Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Audubon’s Shearwater
Downy Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cedar Waxwing
Red Crossbill
Lark Sparrow
Worm-eating Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
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

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 18th 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results including RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BRIDLED TERN, WHITE-FACED and BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS and AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER plus SANDWICH TERN, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED GODWIT, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, GULL-BILLED TERN, RED CROSSBILL, LARK SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and more.

A pelagic trip leaving Sheepshead Bay Sunday evening aboard the American Princess by dawn was in deep water over McMaster Canyon then working southwesterly to Hudson Canyon before returning Monday night. Pelagic birds seen during the day included 42 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, a BRIDLED and 2 BLACK TERNS, about 4,300 WILSON’S, one WHITE-FACED and 21 BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS and 32 CORY’S, 32 GREAT and 38 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS. Other migrating birds included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and LEAST and SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, a DOWNY WOODPECKER, an EASTERN KINGBIRD, BARN and CLIFF SWALLOWS and CEDAR WAXWING all well offshore. Also spectacular were the cetaceans and other sea creatures including 2 Cuvier’s and 4 Sowerby’s Beaked Whales, 20 Pilot Whales, pods of Common Bottlenose and Rizzo’s Dolphins, 6 Fin and Minke and 2 Humpback Whales as well as 3 Loggerhead Sea Turtles, a Whale Shark, 3 species of Rays and more.

Back on shore a SANDWICH TERN seen on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park Sunday and Monday was followed by an adult SANDWICH accompanied by a juvenile noted yesterday along the north side of Moriches Bay seen off Speonk and then off Shore Road and West Hampton. Fifty-two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted at a breeding point Thursday while other terns featured a few CASPIAN around as well as up to 6 GULL-BILLED seen out at Yellow Bar Hassock in Jamaica Bay and occasionally visiting the Wildlife Refuge with 2 more at Plumb Beach today.

Among the shorebirds 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS were uncovered on the flats at Mecox Bay Inlet on Wednesday and were still present Thursday but not reported today. A MARBLED GODWIT on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Saturday was seen Wednesday up at the north end where walking can be treacherous due to fairly high water levels. Two other MARBLED GODWITS were present out on Yellow Bar Hassock south of the West Pond both Sunday and Thursday; these joined by 6 WHIMBRELS last Sunday, just 1 on Thursday. This area can be visited by boat. A BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was reported flying past the Fire Island Hawkwatch site at Robert Moses State Park Tuesday morning and a juvenile WILSON’S PHALAROPE was on the Cupsogue flats last Sunday.

RED CROSSBILL was noted at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge Tuesday morning and the LARK SPARROW first spotted at Shinnecock Inlet a week ago Friday was still present today in vegetation around the parking lot on the west side of the inlet.

A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was photographed today at the North Fork Preserve in Northville and a DICKCISSEL was heard at Croton Point Park last Tuesday. A decent variety of migrating warblers this week most still in quite low numbers have featured some WORM-EATING, HOODED and CAPE MAY, as well as occasional MOURNING, BAY-BREASTED and WILSON’S with other notable migrants including OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS

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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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/11/23

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 11, 2023
* NYNY2308.11

– Birds mentioned
RED-NECKED GREBE
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Piping Plover
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
GULL-BILLED TERN
Caspian Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
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

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 11th 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, MARBLED GODWIT, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, RED-NECKED GREBE, GULL-BILLED TERN, MANX SHEARWATER, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LARK SPARROW, fall warblers, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Sunday morning up to six BROWN PELICANS were fishing for awhile in waters north of Breezy Point as viewed from Plumb and Manhattan Beaches but otherwise there have been no recent reports.

As the shorebird migration continues to build, a MARBLED GODWIT showed up on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park Thursday and was seen there again today. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last week’s RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was still around the southeast corner of the West Pond last Saturday where it was joined by up to 4 WILSON’S PHALAROPES as well as good numbers of other shorebirds and two WHIMBREL were out in Jamaica Bay proper on Sunday. A harassing Peregrine Falcon was constantly putting up the birds causing major reshuffling both on the West and East Ponds. The East Pond is still dealing with higher than desired water levels but a decent number of birds have been gathering at the south end of the Raunt and there’s a few roosting sites up towards the north end. There’s some WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL and STILT SANDPIPERS among them. Two WILSON’S PHALAROPES were seen on the East Pond Saturday were likely part of a group pushed from the West Pond but the PHALAROPES have not been reported there recently. A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was photographed today out at Mecox Inlet.

The summering RED-NECKED GREBE was still present Wednesday off Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx where an off course PIPING PLOVER showed up last Tuesday.

A couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS have been around the West Pond area at Jamaica Bay recently occasionally visiting the East Pond and a few CASPIAN TERNS continue along the Hudson River including at Piermont Pier with one also at Heckscher State Park Monday. Also watch for increasing numbers of ROYAL TERN and one or two scattered ROSEATE TERNS along the southern beaches and inlets.

Two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond last Saturday, this area off Schultz Road in Manorville. An immature LARK SPARROW showed up today along the north side of the parking lot on the west side of Shinnecock Inlet. On Thursday at Montauk Point a DICKCISSEL was recorded as it flew by and seen offshore were 30 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and 1 MANX, 1 GREAT and 3 CORY’S SHEARWATERS.

Recent migrants have included both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and a selection of roughly 2 dozen warblers including WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, MOURNING in Central Park and Green-wood Cemetery, HOODED, CAPE MAY, a CERULEAN in Prospect Park Saturday, MAGNOLIA, BAY-BREASTED, BLACKBURNIAN, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, BLACK-THROATED GREEN, CANADA and WILSON’S.

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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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/4/23

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 04, 2023
* NYNY2308.04

– Birds Mentioned

NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (extralimital)+
Possible ELAENIA Species+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

RED-NECKED GREBE
Whimbrel
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
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
RED CROSSBILL
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler

|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, August 4, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, an enigmatic FLYCATCHER, POMARINE JAEGER, RED-NECKED GREBE, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, GULL-BILLED TERN, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, RED CROSSBILL and more.

A few BROWN PELICANS continue to visit our Atlantic coastline, with recent sightings including two off Democrat Point at the western end of Robert Moses State Park Thursday and up to six seen off Great Kills Park on Staten Island today.

Some SHEARWATERS were also present off Moses Park yesterday, with at least 3 GREAT and 20 CORY’S seen offshore.  Also, a POMARINE JAEGER, present since mid-July on eastern Long Island around Sagg Pond in Bridgehampton, has moved a little west and since Monday has been seen around the bayside or on the beach at Mecox inlet; parking for non-residents there can be problematic.

The slightly extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT remains in the Newburgh-Beacon area along the Hudson, now visiting the Beacon waterfront on a more regular basis but also returning to the area adjacent to the Global Oil Terminal where it had been previously.

Perhaps the week’s actual highlight and most interesting puzzle may never get resolved, but a FLYCATCHER, photographed at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery last Sunday and entered in eBird as a Least Flycatcher, showed sufficient field characters to indicate it might possibly be an ELAENIA, a rather difficult group of mostly South American birds; this bird resembles the similar looking Small-billed and White-crested Elaenias but will require much more research to arrive at a definitive identification, if possible.  Unfortunately, it could not be relocated subsequently.

A RED-NECKED GREBE, in breeding plumage and apparently summering, was seen again off Pelham Bay Park last Monday.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge efforts continue to draw down the East Pond to a desirable level for Shorebirds, and birds are appearing especially around the south end, but the West Pond too has been productive in the interim.  Last Monday, a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was found at the southeast corner of the West Pond and continued there at least through yesterday.  It was joined there on Wednesday by a WILSON’S PHALAROPE, which moved over to the East Pond’s south end later on Thursday afternoon.  Among the other Shorebirds at the refuge has been a WHIMBREL out in the Bay itself Sunday, where GULL-BILLED TERN also continues, while the ponds have featured such species as STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED, and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER mixed in with the more common migrants.

CASPIAN TERNS have been seen recently along the Hudson River from Piermont Pier to Croton Point as well as at sites such as Jamaica Bay and Sagg Pond.

Two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville on Tuesday, and an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER visited Green-Wood Cemetery Monday.

Six RED CROSSBILLS were recorded in the Walking Dunes section of Hither Hills State Park yesterday, and among some early migrant WARBLERS this week have been OVENBIRD, WORM-EATING, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, BLUE-WINGED, BLACK-AND-WHITE, TENNESSEE and BAY-BREASTED, plus a CERULEAN in Central 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.

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