- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * May. 11, 2018 * NYNY1805.11
- Birds mentioned SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+ MISSISSIPPI KITE+ KIRTLAND'S WARBLER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) HARLEQUIN DUCK BROWN PELICAN Red Knot Stilt Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Chuck-will's-widow Red-headed Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Philadelphia Vireo Worm-eating Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Tennessee Warbler Kentucky Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT CLAY-COLORED SPARROW 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 Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 11th 2018 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are KIRTLAND'S WARBLER, BROWN PELICAN, MISSISSIPPI KITE, SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, HARLEQUIN DUCK, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW and much more. First, spaces remain on the Brooklyn pelagic trip May 20th and 21st. So call See Life Paulagics at (215) 234-6805 < http://www.paulagics.com/site/ > if interested. Late this afternoon a KIRTLAND'S WARBLER was found in Central Park. Many local birders hustled over to enjoy this bird as it fed in oaks near the northwestern corner of the Central Park reservoir. This area can be accessed from Central Park West at 91st Street and the oaks are near West Drive. Hopefully the KIRTLAND'S will continue for the weekend. On Wednesday a MISSISSIPPI KITE was spotted moving east fairly high over Hempstead Lake State Park. Recognizably photographed before it disappeared. This sighting was preceded by another MISSISSIPPI KITE nicely photographed last Saturday over Stony Point State Park along the Hudson River in Rockland County. A week ago last Friday a raptor seen in the Montauk area was believed to be possibly a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE but quickly disappeared. A BROWN PELICAN was spotted sitting on rocks at Orient Point on Tuesday and 2 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were also still lingering there. A nice but not overwhelming week for landbirds. About 33 species of warblers including the KIRTLAND'S graced our city parks this week. Highlights included single PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS last Saturday in Hempstead Lake State Park, Prospect Park and Central Park the latter continuing to Tuesday plus one in Forest Park today. The YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum and KENTUCKY WARBLERS were noted this week in Central Park last weekend, Prospect Park last Saturday and Forest Park yesterday. While YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were spotted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Saturday and Prospect Park Sunday and at the South Shore Nature Center in East Islip today. CERULEAN WARBLERS appeared at Hempstead Lake State Park last weekend and Prospect Park last Saturday and in Central Park today. Other warblers enjoyed in the parks this week included WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, BLACKBURNIAN, CANADA and WILSON'S. A male DICKCISSEL was photographed back on the 3rd at Lutheran Cemetery in Queens. One or two SUMMER TANAGERS were present in Central Park Saturday to a least Thursday with another in Forest Park Sunday and Monday and BLUE GROSBEAKS visited Central, Prospect and Forest Parks during the week. A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was spotted along the road at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes today and single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were found this week in Central Park Saturday and at Kissena Park in Queens Wednesday. An increase in flycatchers this week featured an OLIVE-SIDED in Prospect Park Tuesday and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER first reported on Monday. A CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW was heard Monday at the Brookside Preserve in Baldwin. A nice little push of RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS into our area included one or two in Central Park this week, another in Forest Park Monday, one in Cunningham Park Monday and again today and one today at Crab Meadow Beach in Fort Salonga. A nice number of shorebirds at Cupsogue County Park today included 4 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS while Timber Point Golf Club Marina Marsh hosted 3 STILT SANDPIPERS Tuesday with 2 still there Thursday and another WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. Big Egg Marsh in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge had a number of RED KNOTS and other shorebirds this week. A CASPIAN TERN visited Hempstead Lake State Park Thursday that same day finding an ICELAND and 3 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS at Robert Moses State Park. To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or 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 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
