-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. - 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/ --
