- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Jul. 21, 2023 * NYNY2307.21
- Birds mentioned FRANKLIN'S GULL+ (Putnam County) BROWN BOOBY+ NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (Orange County) (+ Details requested by NYSARC) AMERICAN AVOCET Whimbrel Stilt Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher POMARINE JAEGER Caspian Tern BROWN PELICAN WESTERN KINGBIRD LARK SPARROW 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, July 21st 2023* at 11pm in a shortened vacation format. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN BOOBY, slightly extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, FRANKLIN'S GULL, AMERICAN AVOCET, BROWN PELICAN, POMARINE JAEGER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK and more. Yesterday a boat party off Little Gull Island at the entrance to Long Island Sound encountered a juvenile BROWN BOOBY which was nicely photographed as it circled about and then headed over towards Great Gull Island. Interesting birds just to our north are the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT continuing around the Newburgh waterfront in Orange County and an adult FRANKLIN'S GULL photographed on Wednesday, only, at Dockside Park in Cold Spring, Putnam County where an AMERICAN AVOCET was present briefly today before flying north. BROWN PELICANS were noted this week at numerous sites along the Atlantic shore from Staten Island to Fire Island with peak numbers including 19 at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and 12 off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn both on Tuesday. Another report of a beached POMARINE JAEGER involved a bird on Sagg Main Town Beach out in Sagaponack last Saturday. Shorebirds this week included a WESTERN SANDPIPER at Plumb Beach early in the week, STILT SANDPIPER and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER at Heckscher State Park last weekend and a WHIMBREL at Fort Tilden today. Single CASPIAN TERNS were spotted at Edgemere in Queens this Saturday and at Kensico Lake in Westchester yesterday. A WESTERN KINGBIRD was photographed at O'Hara Nature Center in Irvington, Westchester County on Wednesday but like many of these early Fall season strays, such as last week's KINGBIRD in Prospect Park, these are often one day wonders. A LARK SPARROW plus 2 BLUE GROSBEAKS were reported last Saturday at Mount Loretto on Staten Island. 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 -- 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/ --
