[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 16 August 2013
- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug 16, 2013 * NYNY1308.16 - Birds Mentioned: WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+ BRIDLED TERN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater MANX SHEARWATER BROWN PELICAN AMERICAN AVOCET Solitary Sandpiper UPLAND SANDPIPER Whimbrel MARBLED GODWIT White-rumped Sandpiper BAIRD'S SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern POMARINE JAEGER Barn Owl Olive-sided Flycatcher Philadelphia Vireo Purple Martin Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue-winged Warbler GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER "Lawrence's" Warbler Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Blackburnian Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole 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 nysa...@nybirds.org . If electronic submission is not possible, hard copy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hard copy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 ~ Transcript ~ Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070 To report sightings call: Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays) Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126 (Long Island) Compilers: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Karen Fung [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 16th, at 7:00pm. The highlights of today's tape are BRIDLED TERN, WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL, AMERICAN AVOCET, BROWN PELICAN, POMARINE JAEGER, MANX SHEARWATER (and other Shearwaters), MARBLED GODWIT, UPLAND SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. A private fishing boat that went out to Block Canyon last Sunday encountered two BRIDLED TERNS in New York waters and a WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL just over the line into Rhode Island waters. Otherwise, pelagic birds were fairly scarce, unlike at Montauk Point during the storm last Friday, when shearwaters included well over 320 CORY'S SHEARWATERS, 59 GREAT SHEARWATERS, 3 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, and a MANX SHEARWATER, with the highlight perhaps 2 POMARINE JAEGERS arriving together to harass the shearwaters. 46 BLACK TERNS were also in Napeague Bay that day. The season's fourth AMERICAN AVOCET at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge showed up on the East Pond on Wednesday and has stayed through today, favoring the north end of the pond. Fluctuating numbers of shorebirds on the East Pond during the week have featured some STILT SANDPIPERS, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, and the occasional PECTORAL SANDPIPER. The BARN OWL continues in the box at Big John's Pond, where it periodically peers through the entrance hole. Watch for it from the blind only. Patience may be required, but please do nothing to harass the owl. One or two MARBLED GODWITS have been seen recently on the mudflats north of the parking lot at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes, or at the Pike's Beach flats just east of Cupsogue. At least three WHIMBREL were still present at Cedar Beach Park in Southold on the north fork of Long Island last Saturday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER that day was on the north side of Oregon Road just west of Depot Lane in Cutchogue. Another UPLAND SANDPIPER was at the Roosevelt Nature Center at Jones Beach West End last Sunday, nicely photographed just east of the parking lot, and a third UPLAND flew over East Patchogue during yesterday's flight, which also included some SOLITARY SANDPIPERS. A BAIRD'S SANDPIPER visited the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River last Saturday. Other notable water birds reported featured a BROWN PELICAN moving west past Riis Park Saturday evening, and three CASPIAN TERNS flying by Wolf's Pond Park on Staten Island on Sunday. Some LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS also continue along Long Island's south shore. A decent variety of warblers and other land birds has been in our area this past week -- many arriving on the front, first coming in Wednesday, but bringing in more on Thursday. The most unusual warblers featured a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER in Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island last Sunday; a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER in Prospect Park Monday, with a hybrid "LAWRENCE'S" WARBLER spotted both in Central Park Saturday and Prospect Park Monday; and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in Prospect Park today. Other less common warblers, such as WORM-EATING WARBLER and HOODED
[nysbirds-l] Plum Beach Brooklyn
Spent the morning at Plum Beach in Brooklyn (FYI the parking lot is still closed post Sandy). Nothing particularly unusual but 2 sparring juvenile Green Herons, an adult andjuvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron and a very obliging juvenile Seaside Sparrow provided some enjoyable moments. There were not a lot of shorebirds despite the extensive tidal flats but variety was pretty good with 12 species represented. Full eBird checklist with a few juvenile photos embedded here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14935761 See you afield, Shane Blodgett Brooklyn NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] photos of yesterday's Marbled Godwits at Cupsogue
http://ardithbondi.com/slideshow55.html#0 and two more to the right Ardith Bondi -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] photos of yesterday's Marbled Godwits at Cupsogue
http://ardithbondi.com/slideshow55.html#0 and two more to the right Ardith Bondi -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 16 August 2013
- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug 16, 2013 * NYNY1308.16 - Birds Mentioned: WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+ BRIDLED TERN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater MANX SHEARWATER BROWN PELICAN AMERICAN AVOCET Solitary Sandpiper UPLAND SANDPIPER Whimbrel MARBLED GODWIT White-rumped Sandpiper BAIRD'S SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern POMARINE JAEGER Barn Owl Olive-sided Flycatcher Philadelphia Vireo Purple Martin Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue-winged Warbler GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER Lawrence's Warbler Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Blackburnian Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole 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 nysa...@nybirds.org . If electronic submission is not possible, hard copy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hard copy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 ~ Transcript ~ Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070 To report sightings call: Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays) Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126 (Long Island) Compilers: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Karen Fung [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 16th, at 7:00pm. The highlights of today's tape are BRIDLED TERN, WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL, AMERICAN AVOCET, BROWN PELICAN, POMARINE JAEGER, MANX SHEARWATER (and other Shearwaters), MARBLED GODWIT, UPLAND SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. A private fishing boat that went out to Block Canyon last Sunday encountered two BRIDLED TERNS in New York waters and a WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL just over the line into Rhode Island waters. Otherwise, pelagic birds were fairly scarce, unlike at Montauk Point during the storm last Friday, when shearwaters included well over 320 CORY'S SHEARWATERS, 59 GREAT SHEARWATERS, 3 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, and a MANX SHEARWATER, with the highlight perhaps 2 POMARINE JAEGERS arriving together to harass the shearwaters. 46 BLACK TERNS were also in Napeague Bay that day. The season's fourth AMERICAN AVOCET at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge showed up on the East Pond on Wednesday and has stayed through today, favoring the north end of the pond. Fluctuating numbers of shorebirds on the East Pond during the week have featured some STILT SANDPIPERS, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, and the occasional PECTORAL SANDPIPER. The BARN OWL continues in the box at Big John's Pond, where it periodically peers through the entrance hole. Watch for it from the blind only. Patience may be required, but please do nothing to harass the owl. One or two MARBLED GODWITS have been seen recently on the mudflats north of the parking lot at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes, or at the Pike's Beach flats just east of Cupsogue. At least three WHIMBREL were still present at Cedar Beach Park in Southold on the north fork of Long Island last Saturday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER that day was on the north side of Oregon Road just west of Depot Lane in Cutchogue. Another UPLAND SANDPIPER was at the Roosevelt Nature Center at Jones Beach West End last Sunday, nicely photographed just east of the parking lot, and a third UPLAND flew over East Patchogue during yesterday's flight, which also included some SOLITARY SANDPIPERS. A BAIRD'S SANDPIPER visited the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River last Saturday. Other notable water birds reported featured a BROWN PELICAN moving west past Riis Park Saturday evening, and three CASPIAN TERNS flying by Wolf's Pond Park on Staten Island on Sunday. Some LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS also continue along Long Island's south shore. A decent variety of warblers and other land birds has been in our area this past week -- many arriving on the front, first coming in Wednesday, but bringing in more on Thursday. The most unusual warblers featured a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER in Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island last Sunday; a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER in Prospect Park Monday, with a hybrid LAWRENCE'S WARBLER spotted both in Central Park Saturday and Prospect Park Monday; and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in Prospect Park today. Other less common warblers, such as WORM-EATING WARBLER and HOODED WARBLER,
