[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 13 May 2016

[Gail Benson]

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 13, 2016
* NYNY1605.13

- Birds Mentioned

MISSISSIPPI KITE+
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

American Bittern
SANDHILL CRANE
WILSON’S PLOVER
Upland Sandpiper
WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Glaucous Gull
Caspian Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
CHUCK-WILL’S WIDOW
Eastern Whip-Poor-Will
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell’s Thrush
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
LARK SPARROW
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
Bobolink

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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, Tony Lauro
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, May 13, 2016 at
8:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are MISSISSIPPI KITE, SANDHILL CRANE,
WILSON’S PLOVER, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, WHIMBREL,
PROTHONOTARY and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, and
LARK SPARROW.

With the first seven days in May really inappropriate for bird migration to
any extent, finally last Saturday winds shifted and brought a lot of
migrants to our area.  Sunday was good locally in most places, though the
constant favorable migratory weather on subsequent days did enable birds to
move through rather quickly.

Rarities were interesting and actually began last Saturday when birders at
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden watched a MISSISSIPPI KITE fly overhead from
Prospect Park out to the northeast.  Two subsequent reports of MISSISSIPPI
KITE involved fly-bys over northern Staten Island Monday, going northwest,
and over Doodletown Road in Rockland County Tuesday.  Interesting to note
that a brood of 17-year Cicadas is scheduled to emerge this year in New
York and will hopefully attract more Kites locally.

A nicely visible CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW perched low in the Central Park Ramble
Sunday was a delight, especially with an AMERICAN BITTERN nearby.

On Monday what was believed to be a SANDHILL CRANE flew high over the Bronx
Zoo.  Then on Wednesday a male WILSON’S PLOVER was photographed at Democrat
Point on the western tip of Fire Island but was not refound subsequently.
Thursday produced a fly-by WHITE-WINGED DOVE at Jones Beach West End,
recognizably photographed as it disappeared along the fisherman’s access
road; that too has not been relocated.

The list of other interesting birds is long:  at Jones Beach West End
Wednesday there were 4 WHIMBREL on the Coast Guard bar, following an
initial one Sunday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER was at Dreier-Offerman Park in
Brooklyn Saturday, while two STILT SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS
were at Oak Beach marsh today.  A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted on the flats at
Great Kills Park on Staten Island Thursday, and a CASPIAN TERN was still
visiting Prospect Park Lake last Saturday, with 1 at Sagg Pond in
Bridgehampton Sunday.

Other non-passerines occurring recently have included COMMON NIGHTHAWK and
WHIP-POOR-WILL and both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS.  RED-HEADED
WOODPECKERS were in Prospect Park Tuesday and Forest Park Wednesday.

Among the passerines, certainly unseasonal was the LARK SPARROW found
Monday at Robert Moses State Park Field 2.  More SUMMER TANAGERS than we
can list here have featured birds in Central and Prospect Parks from
Sunday, following 1 on Riverside Drive Saturday, and also including
individuals on Staten Island Monday and 1 at the Rocky Point Preserve
yesterday.

BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted Thursday in Riverside Park, Manhattan and
Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

All the THRUSHES lately have included a few GRAY-CHEEKED and a BICKNELL’S
singing on Staten Island Thursday and today.  OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was in
Central Park Monday, and EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, ACADIAN and WILLOW FLYCATCHERS
have arrived, as have BOBOLINKS.

And of course there are the WARBLERS - a PROTHONOTARY was reported at the
Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island Wednesday, and a
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was in Prospect Park Sunday and Monday, where a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT appeared today.  

[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 13 May 2016

[Gail Benson]

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 13, 2016
* NYNY1605.13

- Birds Mentioned

MISSISSIPPI KITE+
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

American Bittern
SANDHILL CRANE
WILSON’S PLOVER
Upland Sandpiper
WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Glaucous Gull
Caspian Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
CHUCK-WILL’S WIDOW
Eastern Whip-Poor-Will
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell’s Thrush
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
LARK SPARROW
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
Bobolink

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
nysarc44nybirdsorg

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, Tony Lauro
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, May 13, 2016 at
8:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are MISSISSIPPI KITE, SANDHILL CRANE,
WILSON’S PLOVER, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, WHIMBREL,
PROTHONOTARY and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, and
LARK SPARROW.

With the first seven days in May really inappropriate for bird migration to
any extent, finally last Saturday winds shifted and brought a lot of
migrants to our area.  Sunday was good locally in most places, though the
constant favorable migratory weather on subsequent days did enable birds to
move through rather quickly.

Rarities were interesting and actually began last Saturday when birders at
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden watched a MISSISSIPPI KITE fly overhead from
Prospect Park out to the northeast.  Two subsequent reports of MISSISSIPPI
KITE involved fly-bys over northern Staten Island Monday, going northwest,
and over Doodletown Road in Rockland County Tuesday.  Interesting to note
that a brood of 17-year Cicadas is scheduled to emerge this year in New
York and will hopefully attract more Kites locally.

A nicely visible CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW perched low in the Central Park Ramble
Sunday was a delight, especially with an AMERICAN BITTERN nearby.

On Monday what was believed to be a SANDHILL CRANE flew high over the Bronx
Zoo.  Then on Wednesday a male WILSON’S PLOVER was photographed at Democrat
Point on the western tip of Fire Island but was not refound subsequently.
Thursday produced a fly-by WHITE-WINGED DOVE at Jones Beach West End,
recognizably photographed as it disappeared along the fisherman’s access
road; that too has not been relocated.

The list of other interesting birds is long:  at Jones Beach West End
Wednesday there were 4 WHIMBREL on the Coast Guard bar, following an
initial one Sunday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER was at Dreier-Offerman Park in
Brooklyn Saturday, while two STILT SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS
were at Oak Beach marsh today.  A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted on the flats at
Great Kills Park on Staten Island Thursday, and a CASPIAN TERN was still
visiting Prospect Park Lake last Saturday, with 1 at Sagg Pond in
Bridgehampton Sunday.

Other non-passerines occurring recently have included COMMON NIGHTHAWK and
WHIP-POOR-WILL and both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS.  RED-HEADED
WOODPECKERS were in Prospect Park Tuesday and Forest Park Wednesday.

Among the passerines, certainly unseasonal was the LARK SPARROW found
Monday at Robert Moses State Park Field 2.  More SUMMER TANAGERS than we
can list here have featured birds in Central and Prospect Parks from
Sunday, following 1 on Riverside Drive Saturday, and also including
individuals on Staten Island Monday and 1 at the Rocky Point Preserve
yesterday.

BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted Thursday in Riverside Park, Manhattan and
Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

All the THRUSHES lately have included a few GRAY-CHEEKED and a BICKNELL’S
singing on Staten Island Thursday and today.  OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was in
Central Park Monday, and EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, ACADIAN and WILLOW FLYCATCHERS
have arrived, as have BOBOLINKS.

And of course there are the WARBLERS - a PROTHONOTARY was reported at the
Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island Wednesday, and a
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was in Prospect Park Sunday and Monday, where a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT appeared today.  

[nysbirds-l] Yellow-throated Warbler, Bald Eagle : Connetquot SP

[GQ]

Seen at 1:30 this afternoon.

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[nysbirds-l] Yellow-throated Warbler, Bald Eagle : Connetquot SP

[GQ]

Seen at 1:30 this afternoon.

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Re:[nysbirds-l] Forest Park - Waterhole (cont)

[Michael Zito]

American Redstart (f)
Rose Breasted Grosbeak (m)
Blue-Headed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo (heard)
Kingbird
Veey
Black and White Warbler
Magnolia Warbler

Mike Z.

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 13, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Michael Zito  wrote:
> 
> Birds so far:
> Hooded warbler
> Worm eating 
> Ovenbird
> Parula
> N waterthrush
> Scarlet Tanager (f)
> Wood thrush 
> Black throated green
> Common yellowthroat 
> Yellow rumped 
> 
> Mike Z.
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone

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Re:[nysbirds-l] Forest Park - Waterhole (cont)

[Michael Zito]

American Redstart (f)
Rose Breasted Grosbeak (m)
Blue-Headed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo (heard)
Kingbird
Veey
Black and White Warbler
Magnolia Warbler

Mike Z.

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 13, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Michael Zito  wrote:
> 
> Birds so far:
> Hooded warbler
> Worm eating 
> Ovenbird
> Parula
> N waterthrush
> Scarlet Tanager (f)
> Wood thrush 
> Black throated green
> Common yellowthroat 
> Yellow rumped 
> 
> Mike Z.
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone

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[nysbirds-l] Forest Park - Waterhole

[Michael Zito]

Birds so far:
Hooded warbler
Worm eating 
Ovenbird
Parula
N waterthrush
Scarlet Tanager (f)
Wood thrush 
Black throated green
Common yellowthroat 
Yellow rumped 

Mike Z.


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[nysbirds-l] Forest Park - Waterhole

[Michael Zito]

Birds so far:
Hooded warbler
Worm eating 
Ovenbird
Parula
N waterthrush
Scarlet Tanager (f)
Wood thrush 
Black throated green
Common yellowthroat 
Yellow rumped 

Mike Z.


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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Thursday May 12, 2016 - 15 warbler species

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC 
Thursday May 12, 2016
Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks at 9am and 6pm starting from the 
dock on Turtle Pond

Fifteen species of wood warblers, but none common today. Plenty of Baltimore 
Orioles. 

Gadwall - Turtle Pond
Great Egret - Turtle Pond
Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond
Red-tailed Hawk
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Turtle Pond
Barn Swallow - Turtle Pond
Black-capped chickadee
House Wren - nesting
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird - many
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush 
Black-and-white Warbler - more females than males 
Common Yellowthroat
Cape May Warbler - the Point
Northern Parula - males & female multiple locations
Magnolia Warbler - various locations including Upper Lobe
Chestnut-sided Warbler - Tupelo Field & Azalea Pond
Blackpoll Warbler (spotted by Nancy Shamban)
Black-throated Blue Warbler - a couple of locations
Yellow-rumped Warbler - Turtle Pond
Prairie Warbler - Turtle Pond
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler - the Point
Wilson's Warbler - the Point
White-throated Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - male Turtle Pond
Red-winged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole - many including 5 in the flowering Tuliptree between 
Captain's Bench & the Point
House Finch - cypress at Turtle Pond
American Goldfinch

Others reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the Ramble and Black-billed Cuckoo at 
the Upper Lobe. 

Deb Allen

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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Thursday May 12, 2016 - 15 warbler species

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC 
Thursday May 12, 2016
Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks at 9am and 6pm starting from the 
dock on Turtle Pond

Fifteen species of wood warblers, but none common today. Plenty of Baltimore 
Orioles. 

Gadwall - Turtle Pond
Great Egret - Turtle Pond
Black-crowned Night-Heron - Turtle Pond
Red-tailed Hawk
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Turtle Pond
Barn Swallow - Turtle Pond
Black-capped chickadee
House Wren - nesting
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird - many
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush 
Black-and-white Warbler - more females than males 
Common Yellowthroat
Cape May Warbler - the Point
Northern Parula - males & female multiple locations
Magnolia Warbler - various locations including Upper Lobe
Chestnut-sided Warbler - Tupelo Field & Azalea Pond
Blackpoll Warbler (spotted by Nancy Shamban)
Black-throated Blue Warbler - a couple of locations
Yellow-rumped Warbler - Turtle Pond
Prairie Warbler - Turtle Pond
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler - the Point
Wilson's Warbler - the Point
White-throated Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - male Turtle Pond
Red-winged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole - many including 5 in the flowering Tuliptree between 
Captain's Bench & the Point
House Finch - cypress at Turtle Pond
American Goldfinch

Others reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the Ramble and Black-billed Cuckoo at 
the Upper Lobe. 

Deb Allen

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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, W Village: White-crowned Sparrow

[Todd Olson]

Nicely marked adult White-crowned Sparrow presently showing at Jane Street
Garden, 8th Ave and Jane Street in Manhattan's West Village.  Foraging on
abundant elm seed drop. A pocket park surprise

Todd Olson, Greater NYC

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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, W Village: White-crowned Sparrow

[Todd Olson]

Nicely marked adult White-crowned Sparrow presently showing at Jane Street
Garden, 8th Ave and Jane Street in Manhattan's West Village.  Foraging on
abundant elm seed drop. A pocket park surprise

Todd Olson, Greater NYC

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