NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 11/14/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 14, 2025
* NYNY2511.14

– Birds mentioned
TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE+
RUFOUS-type HUMMINGBIRD+
PURPLE GALLINULE+
VARIED THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EURASIAN WIGEON
EARED GREBE
Hudsonian Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher
Parasitic Jaeger
BLACK-HEADED GULL
PACIFIC LOON
Great Shearwater
Northern Gannet
BROWN PELICAN
Western Cattle Egret
WESTERN KINGBIRD
CAVE SWALLOW
Evening Grosbeak
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
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, November 14th
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE, PURPLE
GALLINULE, PACIFIC LOON, VARIED THRUSH, CAVE SWALLOW, WESTERN KINGBIRD,
EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, BLACK-HEADED GULL, RUFOUS-type HUMMINGBIRD,
EURASIAN WIGEON, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.

A TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE happily continues through today in the Oyster Bay area
of Nassau County maintaining its routine roosting overnight on Beaver Lake
with Canada Geese and flying out later in the morning to any of various
local fields and golf courses. Most reliable viewing is to look south from
the causeway portion of Cleft Road which splits Beaver Lake but parking is
a problem as much of the area is private. Parking is available at nearby
Shu Swamp though it does require a hike so be careful.

The adult PURPLE GALLINULE was last reported Tuesday in Montauk where it
had been staying along Industrial Road at the north end of Fort Pond.

Last Saturday a PACIFIC LOON was identified off Stelhi Beach in Lattingtown
on the north shore of Nassau County where it was seen sporadically through
Monday morning.

The VARIED THRUSH in Prospect Park was last seen Saturday but not reported
thereafter.

CAVE SWALLOWS were seen at several south shore locations especially on the
stronger winds early in the week with from one up to 8 counted from Cedar
Beach to the Rockaways, Coney Island and Fort Tilden. Others should
hopefully also be moving through.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD was found today at Caumsett State Park along the
southwest side of the polo field.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the EARED GREBE was seen at least to Tuesday
on the West Pond and may continue there. Also at the bay on the East Pond 2
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were spotted Sunday and a HUDSONIAN GODWIT was seen
again Tuesday.

A sizable number of BROWN PELICANS have been hanging out recently in the
waters off Breezy Point and over towards Staten Island with 15 counted off
Fort Tilden and 5 off Staten Island Saturday and 23 estimated off Coney
Island Monday leading up to today with 32 counted from Breezy Point and 11
off Fort Wadsworth.

A BLACK-HEADED GULL was still present Sunday at the inlet to Lake Montauk
and the selasphorus hummingbird, likely RUFOUS, continues near Rocky Point
State Pine Barrens Preserve.

A EURASIAN WIGEON spent the week at Frank Melville Memorial Park in Mill
Pond in Setauket with another also at Connetquot River State Park.

A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET spent much of the week at Floyd Bennett Field and
last Saturday a GREAT SHEARWATER, a PARASITIC JAEGER and an estimated 1,200
NORTHERN GANNETS were off Fort Tilden.

An EVENING GROSBEAK flew over the Pruyn Sanctuary in Westchester Tuesday
and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR visited Croton Point Park last Saturday with another
today at Robert Moses State Park field 2. A LARK SPARROW was found today in
Stillwell Woods Park in Woodbury. A few CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS included 2 at
Playland Park in Rye last Sunday and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was in Central
Park Sunday.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was found at Cupsogue Beach County Park today and a
DICKCISSEL visited the Reade Sanctuary in Rye Monday.

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, 11/7/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 7, 2025
* NYNY2511.07

– Birds Mentioned

TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE+
RUFOUS-type HUMMINGBIRD+
PURPLE GALLINULE+
VARIED THRUSH+
SMITH’S LONGSPUR+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Canada Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
Harlequin Duck
Red-necked Grebe
EARED GREBE
SANDHILL CRANE
Hudsonian Godwit
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
BROWN PELICAN
WESTERN CATTLE-EGRET
Rough-legged Hawk
WESTERN KINGBIRD
CAVE SWALLOW
Evening Grosbeak
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
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, November
7, 2025 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are TUNDRA
BEAN-GOOSE, SMITH’S LONGSPUR, PURPLE GALLINULE, VARIED THRUSH, CAVE
SWALLOW, WESTERN KINGBIRD, EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, BLACK-HEADED
GULL, SANDHILL CRANE, RUFOUS-TYPE HUMMINGBIRD, EURASIAN WIGEON,
WESTERN CATTLE-EGRET, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, DICKCISSEL, and
more.

An exciting week regionally began with a BEAN-GOOSE spotted Monday at
the Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, analysis of field marks
pointing to this as the TUNDRA form of this recently split taxon.
Since Monday, the GOOSE has been found to roost overnight with CANADA
GEESE on Beaver Lake, this area visible looking south from the
causeway portion of Cleft Road.  There is parking at nearby Shu Swamp,
requiring a hike, but much of the area is private.  The GEESE leave
the lake later in the morning, flying out to any of the various fields
or golf courses in the area.  On Tuesday it was found southwest of the
lake at the Nassau Country Club on a pond off Nassau Road.  Good luck!

A SMITH’S LONGSPUR was found in dunes east of Shinnecock Inlet last
Sunday and seen again Monday but not reported since.

An adult PURPLE GALLINULE spotted Wednesday along Industrial Road at
the north end of Fort Pond in Montauk was still present today, and,
interestingly, may be the same individual that visited this same
location last October.

The striking male VARIED THRUSH has continued through the week in
Prospect Park, usually seen just below the Litchfield Villa just east
of Prospect Park West and 5th Street.

CAVE SWALLOWS have again made their late fall incursion into New York,
both up in the Great Lakes region and now coastally in our area. So
far they’ve been noted locally in the Bronx since Tuesday around the
Pelham Bay landfill, sparsely so far along the Westchester coast, and
at Governors Island today, but more are up along the Connecticut coast
and hopefully will be moving our way and likely along the Atlantic
shore of Long Island  as well.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD was seen briefly Thursday at Randalls Island, and
another has since last Sunday been visiting the Suffolk County Farm
and Education Center, where a LARK SPARROW was also seen Monday and
Wednesday.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, the EARED GREBE was still present
today on the West Pond, where an HUDSONIAN GODWIT was spotted last
Saturday.

A number of BROWN PELICANS have been seen in lower New York Bay since
last Sunday from both Breezy Point and various Brooklyn locations as
well as from northeastern Staten Island, these including counts of 16
off Brooklyn Monday and 17 off Fort Tilden Thursday.

A BLACK-HEADED GULL was joined by an ICELAND GULL on Fort Pond Bay in
Montauk on Wednesday, a RED-NECKED GREBE was off Wolfe’s Pond Park
Thursday, four SANDHILL CRANES flew over the Chestnut Ridge hawk watch
in Bedford last Sunday, and a WESTERN CATTLE-EGRET was last seen in
Cutchogue Sunday.

For waterfowl, a EURASIAN WIGEON was back at Connetquot River State
Park as of Wednesday, and two HARLEQUIN DUCKS were at Fort Tilden
Sunday, while also notable were a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at Sheepshead Bay
Wednesday and a Selasphorus HUMMINGBIRD, likely RUFOUS, near the Rocky
Point State Pine Barrens Preserve to Friday.

An EVENING GROSBEAK flew over Alley Pond Park Friday morning, and
SPARROWS included a LARK in Central Park Thursday, 3 CLAY-COLORED, 2
GRASSHOPPER and a few VESPER, with some DICKCISSELS continuing
locally,

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, 10/31/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 31, 2025
* NYNY2510.31 

– Birds Mentioned

COMMON CUCKOO+
VARIED THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE
Canada Goose
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Parasitic Jaeger
Razorbill 
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
BROWN PELICAN 
American Bittern
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
WESTERN KINGBIRD 
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER 
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 31, 2025 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON. CUCKOO, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, VARIED THRUSH, WESTERN KINGBIRD, BROWN PELICAN, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER TANAGER, DICKCISSEL and more.

The COMMON CUCKOO first noted out in Riverhead back on October 23rd, stayed roughly in the same area just east of Roanoke Avenue through Saturday, though eluding birders for quite a while, and then on Sunday it was found in the morning a little further east along Reeves Avenue but soon thereafter apparently disappeared for good.

The PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, keeping company with CANADA GEESE at the Buffalo Farm on the west side of Roanoke Avenue just south of Reeves Avenue, continued through Monday and was reported Tuesday just north of there but not since, though a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was found Tuesday at the Buffalo Farm, both of these rarer geese likely still in that area.

Last Monday a stunning adult male VARIED THRUSH was found in Prospect Park and has continued there through today.  The location is near Litchfield Villa just east of Prospect Park West and 5th Street.  Check with birders at the site for more specific directions.  

A WESTERN KINGBIRD found at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay last Sunday was still present today around the fenced in farm by the arboretum.

Five BROWN PELICANS were seen off Coney Island Creek Park last Sunday but not reported subsequently.

A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, present since Wednesday in the Cutchogue area on the North Fork, was still being seen today, usually briefly, as it flies around back fields at the Pellegrini Vineyards, following the cattle herd on the northwest side of Main Road.

Among the shorebirds, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visited Fort Tilden Tuesday, where 9 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were also counted, and the  HUDSONIAN GODWIT was seen again Saturday and Tuesday on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

The recent storm event did produce 5 PARASITIC JAEGERS spotted off Riis Park on Thursday, 11 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS also noted there, and a CASPIAN TERN was around Robert Moses State Park Wednesday and Thursday, while the season’s first alcids featured 2 RAZORBILLS off Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Thursday.  

An AMERICAN BITTERN was spotted in Prospect Park last Saturday and again today.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS this week included 1 in Green-Wood Cemetery last Saturday and 1 all week at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye.

On Sunday and Monday single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were present at Hudson River Park in lower Manhattan and at Jones Beach West End, and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW visited Planting Fields Arboretum Monday and Tuesday, while several VESPER SPARROWS were also locally uncovered during the week.

YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS occurred at the JFK Tobay Sanctuary Saturday, Green-Wood Cemetery Sunday, Marshlands Conservancy in Rye Sunday and Monday, and Inwood Hill Park Monday, and several ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS and DICKCISSELS were found, but the surprise was a SUMMER TANAGER seen Saturday and Tuesday in Kissena Park in Queens. 

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, 10/24/2025

– 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