[nysbirds-l] Fwd: [VTBIRD] Quebec - Common Ringed Plover - 3 miles from VT, 9/10

[Richard Guthrie]

C. Ringed Plover in Quebec >

Here's an optimistic heads-up. As Mike points out, this bird will likely
head south soon - that would bring it into Vermont or New York State. So
check out all those Semipals carefully. And please wait till I get back to
find it.

And thanks Mike for the word out.

Rich Guthrie
New Baltimore
The Greene County
New York

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From: Mike Resch <012cec6153db-dmarc-requ...@list.uvm.edu>
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 6:41 PM
Subject: [VTBIRD] Quebec - Common Ringed Plover - 3 miles from VT, 9/10
To: vtb...@list.uvm.edu


There were reports today of a Common Ringed Plover in southern Quebec just
3 miles from the VT (and US) border.  The bird was in Missisquoi Bay
directly north of Highgate Springs.

Here's a link to an eBird checklist with a photo -

http://ebird.org/ebird/qc/view/checklist/S31513387   GPS coordinates are -
45.0625718,-73.0802178

So assuming the ID is correct, one would expect that VT may soon have a
Ringed Plover as this bird makes its way south down the Champlain Valley.
So keep your eyes open.

Then again, VT birders may want to head up to Quebec to see the bird while
it is still up there.  I birded that spot on Friday - it's a great location
with good numbers of shorebirds and excellent diversity.  Yesterday I had 1
Long-billed Dowitcher, 3 Stilt Sands, 2 Red-necked Phalaropes, 14
White-rumps, 13 Sanderlings, 1 Western Sand, plus the regulars, though no
Ringed Plover.  Interestingly based on today's reports, there was an almost
complete turnover of birds from yesterday.

Directions and suggestions from my visit there yesterday -

Head north on I-87 to the border - bring your Passport!
Go 5.4 km N of the border and turn left onto Chemin Champlain
Take your first right onto an unnamed road into a "camping" area - a
campground of mobile homes
Once into the campground I think you should check in at the office - I
did.  Turn left and look for signs for Visitors (the woman at the office
spoke little English though was very friendly)
Access to the mudflats is at the far northwestern end of the campground.
Wear boots - you'll be walking out on the very soft and mucky mudflats. (I
ruined a pair of tennis shoes)
Parking was limited yesterday - it is a small campground.  There was a post
on today's Quebec Listserve that said you won't be able to park in the
campground tomorrow.  Instead saying - "It would be better to park opposite
the site entrance to the cemetery" (in my limited French).  There is
cemetery at the beginning of the campground entrance road - I bet that's
the one they mean.  That would be at most a km walk to the access to the
mudflats.

I've done a lot of birding in Quebec lately, and even though I have at best
a limited memory of my high school French, I've been able to make my way
around southern Quebec quite easily.  All the birders have been very
helpful, and most speak English.

Good luck if you give it a try.  And make sure to get the news out quickly
when it is spotted in VT (stated optimistically).


Mike Resch
www.statebirding.blogspot.com
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[nysbirds-l] Fwd: [VTBIRD] Quebec - Common Ringed Plover - 3 miles from VT, 9/10

[Richard Guthrie]

C. Ringed Plover in Quebec >

Here's an optimistic heads-up. As Mike points out, this bird will likely
head south soon - that would bring it into Vermont or New York State. So
check out all those Semipals carefully. And please wait till I get back to
find it.

And thanks Mike for the word out.

Rich Guthrie
New Baltimore
The Greene County
New York

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From: Mike Resch <012cec6153db-dmarc-requ...@list.uvm.edu>
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 6:41 PM
Subject: [VTBIRD] Quebec - Common Ringed Plover - 3 miles from VT, 9/10
To: vtb...@list.uvm.edu


There were reports today of a Common Ringed Plover in southern Quebec just
3 miles from the VT (and US) border.  The bird was in Missisquoi Bay
directly north of Highgate Springs.

Here's a link to an eBird checklist with a photo -

http://ebird.org/ebird/qc/view/checklist/S31513387   GPS coordinates are -
45.0625718,-73.0802178

So assuming the ID is correct, one would expect that VT may soon have a
Ringed Plover as this bird makes its way south down the Champlain Valley.
So keep your eyes open.

Then again, VT birders may want to head up to Quebec to see the bird while
it is still up there.  I birded that spot on Friday - it's a great location
with good numbers of shorebirds and excellent diversity.  Yesterday I had 1
Long-billed Dowitcher, 3 Stilt Sands, 2 Red-necked Phalaropes, 14
White-rumps, 13 Sanderlings, 1 Western Sand, plus the regulars, though no
Ringed Plover.  Interestingly based on today's reports, there was an almost
complete turnover of birds from yesterday.

Directions and suggestions from my visit there yesterday -

Head north on I-87 to the border - bring your Passport!
Go 5.4 km N of the border and turn left onto Chemin Champlain
Take your first right onto an unnamed road into a "camping" area - a
campground of mobile homes
Once into the campground I think you should check in at the office - I
did.  Turn left and look for signs for Visitors (the woman at the office
spoke little English though was very friendly)
Access to the mudflats is at the far northwestern end of the campground.
Wear boots - you'll be walking out on the very soft and mucky mudflats. (I
ruined a pair of tennis shoes)
Parking was limited yesterday - it is a small campground.  There was a post
on today's Quebec Listserve that said you won't be able to park in the
campground tomorrow.  Instead saying - "It would be better to park opposite
the site entrance to the cemetery" (in my limited French).  There is
cemetery at the beginning of the campground entrance road - I bet that's
the one they mean.  That would be at most a km walk to the access to the
mudflats.

I've done a lot of birding in Quebec lately, and even though I have at best
a limited memory of my high school French, I've been able to make my way
around southern Quebec quite easily.  All the birders have been very
helpful, and most speak English.

Good luck if you give it a try.  And make sure to get the news out quickly
when it is spotted in VT (stated optimistically).


Mike Resch
www.statebirding.blogspot.com
Pepperell,MA





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[nysbirds-l] Falll Thrush

[syschiff]

Baldwin 10 Sep

Looking out my den window before preparing supper, a reddish tailed thrush 
landed on a branch. But it didn't seem right for a Hermit Thrush since it also 
was reddish elsewhere.. Fortunately, it spun in place so I could see the 
overall bird.. The bird perfectly matched the description of a Bicknell's 
Thrush  (as of the time of the split from Gray-cheeked Thrush). Unfortunately, 
since then,  it has been determined that the plumages overlap. This has been my 
first clear cut Bicknell's/Gray-cheeked can't tell them apart Thrush.

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[nysbirds-l] Falll Thrush

[syschiff]

Baldwin 10 Sep

Looking out my den window before preparing supper, a reddish tailed thrush 
landed on a branch. But it didn't seem right for a Hermit Thrush since it also 
was reddish elsewhere.. Fortunately, it spun in place so I could see the 
overall bird.. The bird perfectly matched the description of a Bicknell's 
Thrush  (as of the time of the split from Gray-cheeked Thrush). Unfortunately, 
since then,  it has been determined that the plumages overlap. This has been my 
first clear cut Bicknell's/Gray-cheeked can't tell them apart Thrush.

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re:[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 9/10

[Thomas Fiore]

Date: 9/10/16 1:37 pm
From: Goldstein, Gina
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Saturday Sept. 10, [-  
etc.]
For the record, there was also a male hooded warbler later in the day  
in the scrubby area west of the tupelo tree. Found by Miriam Rakowski.
From: Gina Goldstein,
New York City
-   -   -   -   -
Thanks Gina, (& Miriam) also seen today 9/10 in Central Park were an  
American Bittern (by Kyu Lee) at the Azalea Pond- & apparently moving  
a bit south within that area, after the a.m. sighting - as well as at  
least 4 more warbler species not yet noted to this list for Saturday  
in Central, those being Palm, Bay-breasted, Tennessee, and Nashville  
(none of which is new for the season there).  And some other species  
of migrants; with further reports perhaps tomorrow, thanks to all for  
many reports on various forums & in person &/or directly.  A few  
Common Nighthawks just now, as well - after 6 in north end of the park.

peaceful birding to all,

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re:[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 9/10

[Thomas Fiore]

Date: 9/10/16 1:37 pm
From: Goldstein, Gina
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Saturday Sept. 10, [-  
etc.]
For the record, there was also a male hooded warbler later in the day  
in the scrubby area west of the tupelo tree. Found by Miriam Rakowski.
From: Gina Goldstein,
New York City
-   -   -   -   -
Thanks Gina, (& Miriam) also seen today 9/10 in Central Park were an  
American Bittern (by Kyu Lee) at the Azalea Pond- & apparently moving  
a bit south within that area, after the a.m. sighting - as well as at  
least 4 more warbler species not yet noted to this list for Saturday  
in Central, those being Palm, Bay-breasted, Tennessee, and Nashville  
(none of which is new for the season there).  And some other species  
of migrants; with further reports perhaps tomorrow, thanks to all for  
many reports on various forums & in person &/or directly.  A few  
Common Nighthawks just now, as well - after 6 in north end of the park.

peaceful birding to all,

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Re: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 - 19 species of Wood Warblers, etc.

[Goldstein, Gina]

For the record, there was also a male hooded warbler later in the day in the 
scrubby area west of the tupelo tree. Found by Miriam Rakowski. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Deborah Allen  wrote:
> 
> Central Park NYC - 
> Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 
> OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the Boathouse 
> Cafe at 7:30am & 9:00am
> 
> 
> Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 19 species of Wood Warblers including Cape 
> May & Connecticut Warblers, and of course, Red-breasted Nuthatches. Not high 
> numbers of birds today, but good diversity. Many birds, including thrushes 
> and tanagers, feeding on fruit in the Tupelo at Tupelo field. 
> 
> Mallard 
> Mourning Dove
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo - NE of Balancing Rock (Carine Mitchell & Will Papp)
> Chimney Swift - 30 overhead at 6:45AM (R. DeCandido before walk)
> Herring Gull - low flyover
> Black-crowned Night-Heron - hatch-year on the Point
> Red-bellied Woodpecker
> Downy Woodpecker - a couple
> Northern Flicker - 5
> Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum)
> Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo Field
> Great Crested Flycatcher - Tupelo Field (Carine Mitchell)
> Warbling Vireo - Maintenance Field
> Red-eyed Vireo - 5
> Barn Swallow - fewer than 5 flyovers
> Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Upper Lobe
> Red-bresated Nuthatch - 9 (2 Tupelo Field, 7 Pinetum - Wendy Miller & George 
> Beckwith)
> White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Oven)
> House Wren - 4
> Carolina Wren - Tupelo Field
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Patty Pike - Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance 
> Field)
> Veery - more than 10
> Swainson's Thrush - a couple in the Ramble
> American Robin - many on lawns
> Gray Catbird - usual numbers
> House Finch - 2 or 3 at Maintenance field
> Ovenbird - feeders
> Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Indian Cave, 2 pin pines below Belvedere Castle)
> Black-and-white Warbler - 5
> Connecticut Warbler - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
> Common Yellowthroat - 5
> American Redstart - 20 (including 3 adult males)
> Cape May Warbler - the Point (6:30am R. DeCandido before walk)
> Northern Parula - 2 - Humming Tombstone & Ramble
> Magnolia Warbler - 2 - Pinetum & Oven
> Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 of these at the Point)
> Chestnut-sided Warbler - Ramble (Karen Evans)
> Blackpoll Warbler - adult male still in alternate plumage on the Point
> Black-throated Blue Warbler - male in the Ramble
> Palm Warbler - 2 western - Pinetum (Tom Alhf)
> Pine Warbler - 5 (Pinetum & pines below Belvedere Castle)
> Prairie Warbler - Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans)
> Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Pines below Belvedere Castle & the Point)
> Canada Warbler - 3 (Humming Tombstone, 2 at Upper Lobe)
> Wilson's Warbler - uphill from Boathouse (Peter Haskel)
> Song sparrow - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
> Scarlet Tanager - 7 (5 in one tree uphill from the Boathouse)
> Northern Cardinal
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (Shakspeare Garden, Summer House Meadow/Swamp, 
> Tupelo Field)
> Red-winged Blackbird - Belvedere Castle
> Common Grackle - flock of around 125 seen from Boathouse Cafe around 30 feet 
> up & heading north before 7:30 walk
> Baltimore Oriole - 7 (females and hatch-years) in Tupelo at Tupelo Field
> 
> Andrea Hessel reported a Hermit Thrush. 
> 
> Adding Tim Healy's Yellow-breasted Chat at the Maintenance Field and Ryan 
> Zucker's Worm-eating Warbler, also at the Maintenanace Field, yields 21 
> species of Wood Warblers reported in the park today. 
> 
> R. DeCandido saw a Little Brown Bat at Belvedere Castle at 5:45am, but no 
> early morning flyovers of migrating birds. 
> 
> Thanks to Carine Mitchell for the Chilmark chocolates from Martha's Vineyard. 
> 
> Deb Allen
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 - 19 species of Wood Warblers, etc.

[Goldstein, Gina]

For the record, there was also a male hooded warbler later in the day in the 
scrubby area west of the tupelo tree. Found by Miriam Rakowski. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Deborah Allen  wrote:
> 
> Central Park NYC - 
> Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 
> OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the Boathouse 
> Cafe at 7:30am & 9:00am
> 
> 
> Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 19 species of Wood Warblers including Cape 
> May & Connecticut Warblers, and of course, Red-breasted Nuthatches. Not high 
> numbers of birds today, but good diversity. Many birds, including thrushes 
> and tanagers, feeding on fruit in the Tupelo at Tupelo field. 
> 
> Mallard 
> Mourning Dove
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo - NE of Balancing Rock (Carine Mitchell & Will Papp)
> Chimney Swift - 30 overhead at 6:45AM (R. DeCandido before walk)
> Herring Gull - low flyover
> Black-crowned Night-Heron - hatch-year on the Point
> Red-bellied Woodpecker
> Downy Woodpecker - a couple
> Northern Flicker - 5
> Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum)
> Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo Field
> Great Crested Flycatcher - Tupelo Field (Carine Mitchell)
> Warbling Vireo - Maintenance Field
> Red-eyed Vireo - 5
> Barn Swallow - fewer than 5 flyovers
> Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Upper Lobe
> Red-bresated Nuthatch - 9 (2 Tupelo Field, 7 Pinetum - Wendy Miller & George 
> Beckwith)
> White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Oven)
> House Wren - 4
> Carolina Wren - Tupelo Field
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Patty Pike - Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance 
> Field)
> Veery - more than 10
> Swainson's Thrush - a couple in the Ramble
> American Robin - many on lawns
> Gray Catbird - usual numbers
> House Finch - 2 or 3 at Maintenance field
> Ovenbird - feeders
> Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Indian Cave, 2 pin pines below Belvedere Castle)
> Black-and-white Warbler - 5
> Connecticut Warbler - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
> Common Yellowthroat - 5
> American Redstart - 20 (including 3 adult males)
> Cape May Warbler - the Point (6:30am R. DeCandido before walk)
> Northern Parula - 2 - Humming Tombstone & Ramble
> Magnolia Warbler - 2 - Pinetum & Oven
> Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 of these at the Point)
> Chestnut-sided Warbler - Ramble (Karen Evans)
> Blackpoll Warbler - adult male still in alternate plumage on the Point
> Black-throated Blue Warbler - male in the Ramble
> Palm Warbler - 2 western - Pinetum (Tom Alhf)
> Pine Warbler - 5 (Pinetum & pines below Belvedere Castle)
> Prairie Warbler - Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans)
> Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Pines below Belvedere Castle & the Point)
> Canada Warbler - 3 (Humming Tombstone, 2 at Upper Lobe)
> Wilson's Warbler - uphill from Boathouse (Peter Haskel)
> Song sparrow - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
> Scarlet Tanager - 7 (5 in one tree uphill from the Boathouse)
> Northern Cardinal
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (Shakspeare Garden, Summer House Meadow/Swamp, 
> Tupelo Field)
> Red-winged Blackbird - Belvedere Castle
> Common Grackle - flock of around 125 seen from Boathouse Cafe around 30 feet 
> up & heading north before 7:30 walk
> Baltimore Oriole - 7 (females and hatch-years) in Tupelo at Tupelo Field
> 
> Andrea Hessel reported a Hermit Thrush. 
> 
> Adding Tim Healy's Yellow-breasted Chat at the Maintenance Field and Ryan 
> Zucker's Worm-eating Warbler, also at the Maintenanace Field, yields 21 
> species of Wood Warblers reported in the park today. 
> 
> R. DeCandido saw a Little Brown Bat at Belvedere Castle at 5:45am, but no 
> early morning flyovers of migrating birds. 
> 
> Thanks to Carine Mitchell for the Chilmark chocolates from Martha's Vineyard. 
> 
> Deb Allen
> 
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 - 19 species of Wood Warblers, etc.

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC - 
Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the Boathouse 
Cafe at 7:30am & 9:00am


Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 19 species of Wood Warblers including Cape 
May & Connecticut Warblers, and of course, Red-breasted Nuthatches. Not high 
numbers of birds today, but good diversity. Many birds, including thrushes and 
tanagers, feeding on fruit in the Tupelo at Tupelo field. 

Mallard 
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - NE of Balancing Rock (Carine Mitchell & Will Papp)
Chimney Swift - 30 overhead at 6:45AM (R. DeCandido before walk)
Herring Gull - low flyover
Black-crowned Night-Heron - hatch-year on the Point
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker - a couple
Northern Flicker - 5
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum)
Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo Field
Great Crested Flycatcher - Tupelo Field (Carine Mitchell)
Warbling Vireo - Maintenance Field
Red-eyed Vireo - 5
Barn Swallow - fewer than 5 flyovers
Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Upper Lobe
Red-bresated Nuthatch - 9 (2 Tupelo Field, 7 Pinetum - Wendy Miller & George 
Beckwith)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Oven)
House Wren - 4
Carolina Wren - Tupelo Field
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Patty Pike - Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance Field)
Veery - more than 10
Swainson's Thrush - a couple in the Ramble
American Robin - many on lawns
Gray Catbird - usual numbers
House Finch - 2 or 3 at Maintenance field
Ovenbird - feeders
Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Indian Cave, 2 pin pines below Belvedere Castle)
Black-and-white Warbler - 5
Connecticut Warbler - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
Common Yellowthroat - 5
American Redstart - 20 (including 3 adult males)
Cape May Warbler - the Point (6:30am R. DeCandido before walk)
Northern Parula - 2 - Humming Tombstone & Ramble
Magnolia Warbler - 2 - Pinetum & Oven
Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 of these at the Point)
Chestnut-sided Warbler - Ramble (Karen Evans)
Blackpoll Warbler - adult male still in alternate plumage on the Point
Black-throated Blue Warbler - male in the Ramble
Palm Warbler - 2 western - Pinetum (Tom Alhf)
Pine Warbler - 5 (Pinetum & pines below Belvedere Castle)
Prairie Warbler - Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Pines below Belvedere Castle & the Point)
Canada Warbler - 3 (Humming Tombstone, 2 at Upper Lobe)
Wilson's Warbler - uphill from Boathouse (Peter Haskel)
Song sparrow - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
Scarlet Tanager - 7 (5 in one tree uphill from the Boathouse)
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (Shakspeare Garden, Summer House Meadow/Swamp, 
Tupelo Field)
Red-winged Blackbird - Belvedere Castle
Common Grackle - flock of around 125 seen from Boathouse Cafe around 30 feet up 
& heading north before 7:30 walk
Baltimore Oriole - 7 (females and hatch-years) in Tupelo at Tupelo Field

Andrea Hessel reported a Hermit Thrush. 

Adding Tim Healy's Yellow-breasted Chat at the Maintenance Field and Ryan 
Zucker's Worm-eating Warbler, also at the Maintenanace Field, yields 21 species 
of Wood Warblers reported in the park today. 

R. DeCandido saw a Little Brown Bat at Belvedere Castle at 5:45am, but no early 
morning flyovers of migrating birds. 

Thanks to Carine Mitchell for the Chilmark chocolates from Martha's Vineyard. 

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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 - 19 species of Wood Warblers, etc.

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC - 
Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks starting from the Boathouse 
Cafe at 7:30am & 9:00am


Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 19 species of Wood Warblers including Cape 
May & Connecticut Warblers, and of course, Red-breasted Nuthatches. Not high 
numbers of birds today, but good diversity. Many birds, including thrushes and 
tanagers, feeding on fruit in the Tupelo at Tupelo field. 

Mallard 
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - NE of Balancing Rock (Carine Mitchell & Will Papp)
Chimney Swift - 30 overhead at 6:45AM (R. DeCandido before walk)
Herring Gull - low flyover
Black-crowned Night-Heron - hatch-year on the Point
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker - a couple
Northern Flicker - 5
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 (Maintenance Field & Pinetum)
Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo Field
Great Crested Flycatcher - Tupelo Field (Carine Mitchell)
Warbling Vireo - Maintenance Field
Red-eyed Vireo - 5
Barn Swallow - fewer than 5 flyovers
Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Upper Lobe
Red-bresated Nuthatch - 9 (2 Tupelo Field, 7 Pinetum - Wendy Miller & George 
Beckwith)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (Humming Tombstone & Oven)
House Wren - 4
Carolina Wren - Tupelo Field
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 (Patty Pike - Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance Field)
Veery - more than 10
Swainson's Thrush - a couple in the Ramble
American Robin - many on lawns
Gray Catbird - usual numbers
House Finch - 2 or 3 at Maintenance field
Ovenbird - feeders
Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Indian Cave, 2 pin pines below Belvedere Castle)
Black-and-white Warbler - 5
Connecticut Warbler - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
Common Yellowthroat - 5
American Redstart - 20 (including 3 adult males)
Cape May Warbler - the Point (6:30am R. DeCandido before walk)
Northern Parula - 2 - Humming Tombstone & Ramble
Magnolia Warbler - 2 - Pinetum & Oven
Yellow Warbler - 4 (3 of these at the Point)
Chestnut-sided Warbler - Ramble (Karen Evans)
Blackpoll Warbler - adult male still in alternate plumage on the Point
Black-throated Blue Warbler - male in the Ramble
Palm Warbler - 2 western - Pinetum (Tom Alhf)
Pine Warbler - 5 (Pinetum & pines below Belvedere Castle)
Prairie Warbler - Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Pines below Belvedere Castle & the Point)
Canada Warbler - 3 (Humming Tombstone, 2 at Upper Lobe)
Wilson's Warbler - uphill from Boathouse (Peter Haskel)
Song sparrow - Summer House Meadow/Swamp
Scarlet Tanager - 7 (5 in one tree uphill from the Boathouse)
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (Shakspeare Garden, Summer House Meadow/Swamp, 
Tupelo Field)
Red-winged Blackbird - Belvedere Castle
Common Grackle - flock of around 125 seen from Boathouse Cafe around 30 feet up 
& heading north before 7:30 walk
Baltimore Oriole - 7 (females and hatch-years) in Tupelo at Tupelo Field

Andrea Hessel reported a Hermit Thrush. 

Adding Tim Healy's Yellow-breasted Chat at the Maintenance Field and Ryan 
Zucker's Worm-eating Warbler, also at the Maintenanace Field, yields 21 species 
of Wood Warblers reported in the park today. 

R. DeCandido saw a Little Brown Bat at Belvedere Castle at 5:45am, but no early 
morning flyovers of migrating birds. 

Thanks to Carine Mitchell for the Chilmark chocolates from Martha's Vineyard. 

Deb Allen

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[nysbirds-l] Yellow-breasted Chat at Maintenance Field, Central Park

[Tim Healy]

Getting the word out on a chase-worthy species through as many outlets as 
possible. A Yellow-breasted Chat has been seen at least twice in the past hour 
and a half on the western edge of Central Park's Maintenance Field. It has been 
spotted feeding on berries, somewhat surprisingly in the upper two-thirds of 
the tree. Views have been brief but diagnostic. 

Decent migrant activity even for the middle of a hot day! Plenty of other birds 
to be seen and heard. 

Cheers!
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[nysbirds-l] Yellow-breasted Chat at Maintenance Field, Central Park

[Tim Healy]

Getting the word out on a chase-worthy species through as many outlets as 
possible. A Yellow-breasted Chat has been seen at least twice in the past hour 
and a half on the western edge of Central Park's Maintenance Field. It has been 
spotted feeding on berries, somewhat surprisingly in the upper two-thirds of 
the tree. Views have been brief but diagnostic. 

Decent migrant activity even for the middle of a hot day! Plenty of other birds 
to be seen and heard. 

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[nysbirds-l] Royal Terns, Shinnecock Inlet & Tiana Beach

[Keith Cashman]

16 confirmed Royal Terns and approximately 15 more on Island on the Bay side 
(heat simmer). 

8 Adults and  1 Immature Royal Terns at Tiana Beach.  5 of the Adults displayed 
obvious leg bands. 

Mathews & Keith Cashman 
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[nysbirds-l] Royal Terns, Shinnecock Inlet & Tiana Beach

[Keith Cashman]

16 confirmed Royal Terns and approximately 15 more on Island on the Bay side 
(heat simmer). 

8 Adults and  1 Immature Royal Terns at Tiana Beach.  5 of the Adults displayed 
obvious leg bands. 

Mathews & Keith Cashman 
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[nysbirds-l] Update- Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

I apologize for the duplicate Emails. 

Final update as of 9:55 AM.  There are   a confirmed count of 10 Buff-breasted 
Sandpipers on the field on Sound Av east of Osborn Ave. Easily viewed from 
Sound Av. Worker mowing grass, so flock is constantly moving but thankfully 
staying close to Sound Av.  

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[nysbirds-l] Update- Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

I apologize for the duplicate Emails. 

Final update as of 9:55 AM.  There are   a confirmed count of 10 Buff-breasted 
Sandpipers on the field on Sound Av east of Osborn Ave. Easily viewed from 
Sound Av. Worker mowing grass, so flock is constantly moving but thankfully 
staying close to Sound Av.  

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Re:[nysbirds-l] Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

Final count as of 9:44 AM - 10 Buff-breasted Sandpipers. Best viewed from 
Eastbound Sound Av. Close to Sound Av.  

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 09:34, Keith Cashman  wrote:
> 
> Update- 9 Buff-breasted Sandpipers at 9:33 AM. 
>  
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 09:20, Keith Cashman  wrote:
>> 
>> The 3 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 50 American Golden Plover are being 
>> observed as of 9:18 AM today. Viewed from Eastbound Sound Ave west of Osborn 
>> Av, Riverhead. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone

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Re:[nysbirds-l] Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

Final count as of 9:44 AM - 10 Buff-breasted Sandpipers. Best viewed from 
Eastbound Sound Av. Close to Sound Av.  

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 09:34, Keith Cashman  wrote:
> 
> Update- 9 Buff-breasted Sandpipers at 9:33 AM. 
>  
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 09:20, Keith Cashman  wrote:
>> 
>> The 3 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 50 American Golden Plover are being 
>> observed as of 9:18 AM today. Viewed from Eastbound Sound Ave west of Osborn 
>> Av, Riverhead. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone

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Re:[nysbirds-l] Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

Update- 9 Buff-breasted Sandpipers at 9:33 AM. 
 
Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 09:20, Keith Cashman  wrote:
> 
> The 3 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 50 American Golden Plover are being 
> observed as of 9:18 AM today. Viewed from Eastbound Sound Ave west of Osborn 
> Av, Riverhead. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone

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Re:[nysbirds-l] Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

Update- 9 Buff-breasted Sandpipers at 9:33 AM. 
 
Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 09:20, Keith Cashman  wrote:
> 
> The 3 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 50 American Golden Plover are being 
> observed as of 9:18 AM today. Viewed from Eastbound Sound Ave west of Osborn 
> Av, Riverhead. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone

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[nysbirds-l] Buff-breasted Sandpiper

[Rob Jett]

On mudflat at Plum Beach right now.

Rob

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[nysbirds-l] Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

The 3 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 50 American Golden Plover are being observed 
as of 9:18 AM today. Viewed from Eastbound Sound Ave west of Osborn Av, 
Riverhead. 

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[nysbirds-l] Buff- breasted Sandpiper & American Golden Plover

[Keith Cashman]

The 3 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 50 American Golden Plover are being observed 
as of 9:18 AM today. Viewed from Eastbound Sound Ave west of Osborn Av, 
Riverhead. 

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[nysbirds-l] Croton point park -- olive sided fly

[Larry Trachtenberg]

About 730 this morning I watched an olive sided flycatcher hawking insects for 
about 5 minutes. Was regularly perching on a dead snag about half way up road 
to nature center.  It was virtually identical spot several of us saw an olive 
sided fly during spring migration. Possible it could be same bird?  I don't 
have a clue if migration patterns work that way. 

As long as T. Fiore's making music references -- with the humidity high and the 
air totally dead albeit in mid September I couldn't get The Satins  In the 
Still of the Night out of my head.  And as praise for Putin rains down from the 
mouth of a candidate for president (really) of our as yet democracy,  the 
sticker Woody Guthrie put on his guitar more than a six decades ago could not 
be more apropos.  Good luck and good birding. 

L. Trachtenberg
Ossining

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[nysbirds-l] Croton point park -- olive sided fly

[Larry Trachtenberg]

About 730 this morning I watched an olive sided flycatcher hawking insects for 
about 5 minutes. Was regularly perching on a dead snag about half way up road 
to nature center.  It was virtually identical spot several of us saw an olive 
sided fly during spring migration. Possible it could be same bird?  I don't 
have a clue if migration patterns work that way. 

As long as T. Fiore's making music references -- with the humidity high and the 
air totally dead albeit in mid September I couldn't get The Satins  In the 
Still of the Night out of my head.  And as praise for Putin rains down from the 
mouth of a candidate for president (really) of our as yet democracy,  the 
sticker Woody Guthrie put on his guitar more than a six decades ago could not 
be more apropos.  Good luck and good birding. 

L. Trachtenberg
Ossining

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[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 9/9 - CT Warbler, Virg. Rail, many migrants

[Thomas Fiore]

Friday, 9 September, 2016 -
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

Once again, the Central Park Ramble and its vicinity did very well for  
migrant diversity - even as some areas north of the reservoir also  
did, with additional nice reports coming from areas near the reservoir  
to the tennis courts "patch", an area which can be very productive at  
times but which is generally underbirded - thanks to Peter Letourneau,  
Ph.D., a research scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,  
Columbia University, who offered a good report for the latter two  
areas, and to many others who have offered reports of various species  
including again, some fine leaders for bird-walks offered by the  
American Museum of Natural History-New York, as well as some of the  
members and officers of the Linnaean Society of New York, and the NYC  
chapter of Audubon, "NYCAS" (all are non-profit org's.), & many other  
generous birders who gave reports and details on sightings for this day.

Of course a Virginia Rail is an interesting sighting any time in  
Manhattan, & one seen by many today by the edge of the Lake was a  
popular destination for those able to get to the site and observe it &  
then with the further sighting, as noted to this list!  A Connecticut  
Warbler found at the Point in the Ramble got some theorizing whether  
it may be the same individual as seen in Central on Tuesday, yet (my  
own 2 cents) this species is not actually that "rare", rather it is  
very skulking & not readily found nor observed & can easily elude even  
very discerning observers at times - it is just as likely that this  
was a different individual to the one seen a bit farther east in the  
park 4 days prior (and the age or sex of either would not be  
determinative; also certainly a majority of Connecticuts seen in our  
region are first-year birds, not adults) - and/but, there are past  
instances of the same, or presumed same, CT Warbler[s] having lingered  
in same - very specific - area[s] for many, many days in fall  
migration in this region, lncluding some examples of this from Central  
Park.

Thanks to the very many quiet & responsible birders who offered so  
many reports;

Just some of the birds noted for Friday 9/9 in Central Park include:

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail (as noted above)
Spotted Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Empidonax [genus] Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch (12+ locations in the park, totaling many birds)
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing

Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler (multiple locations, again)
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Myrtle [aka 'form of': Yellow-rumped] Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Connecticut Warbler (as noted above - Ramble)
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler (several locations, both sexes)
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler

Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow


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man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real  
man now!  Where are they?" - Christine Ellen 'Chrissie' Hynde, a  
founder of The Pretenders


good birding,
Tom Fiore
Manhattan




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[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 9/9 - CT Warbler, Virg. Rail, many migrants

[Thomas Fiore]

Friday, 9 September, 2016 -
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

Once again, the Central Park Ramble and its vicinity did very well for  
migrant diversity - even as some areas north of the reservoir also  
did, with additional nice reports coming from areas near the reservoir  
to the tennis courts "patch", an area which can be very productive at  
times but which is generally underbirded - thanks to Peter Letourneau,  
Ph.D., a research scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,  
Columbia University, who offered a good report for the latter two  
areas, and to many others who have offered reports of various species  
including again, some fine leaders for bird-walks offered by the  
American Museum of Natural History-New York, as well as some of the  
members and officers of the Linnaean Society of New York, and the NYC  
chapter of Audubon, "NYCAS" (all are non-profit org's.), & many other  
generous birders who gave reports and details on sightings for this day.

Of course a Virginia Rail is an interesting sighting any time in  
Manhattan, & one seen by many today by the edge of the Lake was a  
popular destination for those able to get to the site and observe it &  
then with the further sighting, as noted to this list!  A Connecticut  
Warbler found at the Point in the Ramble got some theorizing whether  
it may be the same individual as seen in Central on Tuesday, yet (my  
own 2 cents) this species is not actually that "rare", rather it is  
very skulking & not readily found nor observed & can easily elude even  
very discerning observers at times - it is just as likely that this  
was a different individual to the one seen a bit farther east in the  
park 4 days prior (and the age or sex of either would not be  
determinative; also certainly a majority of Connecticuts seen in our  
region are first-year birds, not adults) - and/but, there are past  
instances of the same, or presumed same, CT Warbler[s] having lingered  
in same - very specific - area[s] for many, many days in fall  
migration in this region, lncluding some examples of this from Central  
Park.

Thanks to the very many quiet & responsible birders who offered so  
many reports;

Just some of the birds noted for Friday 9/9 in Central Park include:

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail (as noted above)
Spotted Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Empidonax [genus] Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch (12+ locations in the park, totaling many birds)
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing

Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler (multiple locations, again)
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Myrtle [aka 'form of': Yellow-rumped] Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Connecticut Warbler (as noted above - Ramble)
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler (several locations, both sexes)
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler

Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow


"Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a  
man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real  
man now!  Where are they?" - Christine Ellen 'Chrissie' Hynde, a  
founder of The Pretenders


good birding,
Tom Fiore
Manhattan




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[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 9 September 2016

[Ben Cacace]

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 9, 2016
* NYNY1609.09

- Birds mentioned
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
BROWN BOOBY+
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER+
SANDWICH TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Cory's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
American Golden-Plover
Hudsonian Godwit
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Common Nighthawk
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Worm-eating Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted 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

To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays, during the day)
Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 (Long Island)

Compiler: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 9th
2016 at 6pm. The highlights of today's tape are Hermine related specialties
like BLACK-CAPPED PETREL and much more.

Many of this week's big sightings were provided by Tropical Storm Hermine
as birders on Monday staked out various coastal locations along the south
shore of Long Island. As is often the case with these storms the farther
east the better for unusual species. Observation conditions were generally
far from ideal with birds often distant and constantly disappearing into
huge wave troughs making positive identification a definite challenge.

Quite unique from shore and unexpected were Monday reports of BLACK-CAPPED
PETRELS from one early off Amagansett to one just after noon off Shinnecock
Inlet. As noted by the observers identifications mainly relied on general
impressions of plumage and flight characteristics but given the 16
BLACK-CAPPEDS reported just a week earlier, though 140 miles out on the
ocean, a storm relocation certainly could be possible.

Three other very intriguing Monday reports from single observers involved
species that, especially under those conditions, could be an identification
challenge, given the presence of very similar and more expected species.
Mentioned were a BROWN BOOBY off Southampton, a POMARINE JAEGER off Jones
Beach and a SANDWICH TERN off Fort Tilden. Hopefully NYSARC reports will be
provided for review.

The shearwaters seen were much more expected though the few SOOTY
SHEARWATERS noted from Tiana Beach east to Amagansett would be considered
somewhat late. CORY'S SHEARWATERS were the most frequently noted with 16
earlier off Mecox and others east to Amagansett and west to Tiana Beach and
MANX SHEARWATER put on a pleasant run with peaks of 4 both off Shinnecock
Inlet and Tiana Beach. Many unidentified shearwaters were also seen. But it
was interesting that no STORM-PETRELs were noted.

Decent numbers of PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen as far west as Jones Beach
though most again were out east. Singles at various sites culminated with 6
late in the day off Tiana Beach one robbing a ROYAL TERN catch and a late
push of 5 including a striking dark individual.

A good number of BLACK TERNS also occurred with the mostly Common Terns
along the shore including around 20 off Tiana Beach where 5 LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS were roosting in the parking lot these following a fresh
juvenile LESSER BLACK-BACKED on the beach there earlier. A late COMMON
NIGHTHAWK and an early BAIRD'S SANDPIPER were other Tiana highlights and
some NORTHERN GANNETS were also participating in the Monday flight.

Also presumably storm related were an immature SANDWICH TERN appearing on
Great Gull Island Wednesday and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT visiting Mecox Bay
Tuesday and Wednesday. A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE also appeared in the dune
pools at Jones Beach West End Wednesday and 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were
in the swale later that day.

On the Riverhead sod fields AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS reached 70 plus along
Osborn Avenue just south of Sound Avenue last Saturday with a peak on 10
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS there including one that was earlier that day 4
miles east along the Route 105 and Doctor's Path fields. The latter had
about 30 Goldens and 2 Baird's Saturday and other Baird's included 2 at
Breezy Point and one at Sagg Pond Monday. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS also
included 

[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 9 September 2016

[Ben Cacace]

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 9, 2016
* NYNY1609.09

- Birds mentioned
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
BROWN BOOBY+
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER+
SANDWICH TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Cory's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
American Golden-Plover
Hudsonian Godwit
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Common Nighthawk
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Worm-eating Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted 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

To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays, during the day)
Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 (Long Island)

Compiler: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 9th
2016 at 6pm. The highlights of today's tape are Hermine related specialties
like BLACK-CAPPED PETREL and much more.

Many of this week's big sightings were provided by Tropical Storm Hermine
as birders on Monday staked out various coastal locations along the south
shore of Long Island. As is often the case with these storms the farther
east the better for unusual species. Observation conditions were generally
far from ideal with birds often distant and constantly disappearing into
huge wave troughs making positive identification a definite challenge.

Quite unique from shore and unexpected were Monday reports of BLACK-CAPPED
PETRELS from one early off Amagansett to one just after noon off Shinnecock
Inlet. As noted by the observers identifications mainly relied on general
impressions of plumage and flight characteristics but given the 16
BLACK-CAPPEDS reported just a week earlier, though 140 miles out on the
ocean, a storm relocation certainly could be possible.

Three other very intriguing Monday reports from single observers involved
species that, especially under those conditions, could be an identification
challenge, given the presence of very similar and more expected species.
Mentioned were a BROWN BOOBY off Southampton, a POMARINE JAEGER off Jones
Beach and a SANDWICH TERN off Fort Tilden. Hopefully NYSARC reports will be
provided for review.

The shearwaters seen were much more expected though the few SOOTY
SHEARWATERS noted from Tiana Beach east to Amagansett would be considered
somewhat late. CORY'S SHEARWATERS were the most frequently noted with 16
earlier off Mecox and others east to Amagansett and west to Tiana Beach and
MANX SHEARWATER put on a pleasant run with peaks of 4 both off Shinnecock
Inlet and Tiana Beach. Many unidentified shearwaters were also seen. But it
was interesting that no STORM-PETRELs were noted.

Decent numbers of PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen as far west as Jones Beach
though most again were out east. Singles at various sites culminated with 6
late in the day off Tiana Beach one robbing a ROYAL TERN catch and a late
push of 5 including a striking dark individual.

A good number of BLACK TERNS also occurred with the mostly Common Terns
along the shore including around 20 off Tiana Beach where 5 LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS were roosting in the parking lot these following a fresh
juvenile LESSER BLACK-BACKED on the beach there earlier. A late COMMON
NIGHTHAWK and an early BAIRD'S SANDPIPER were other Tiana highlights and
some NORTHERN GANNETS were also participating in the Monday flight.

Also presumably storm related were an immature SANDWICH TERN appearing on
Great Gull Island Wednesday and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT visiting Mecox Bay
Tuesday and Wednesday. A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE also appeared in the dune
pools at Jones Beach West End Wednesday and 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were
in the swale later that day.

On the Riverhead sod fields AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS reached 70 plus along
Osborn Avenue just south of Sound Avenue last Saturday with a peak on 10
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS there including one that was earlier that day 4
miles east along the Route 105 and Doctor's Path fields. The latter had
about 30 Goldens and 2 Baird's Saturday and other Baird's included 2 at
Breezy Point and one at Sagg Pond Monday. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS also
included