- 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 - Transcript If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44 (at)nybirds{dot}org. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, August 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. - 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/ --
