-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * June 30, 2017 * NYNY1706.30
- Birds Mentioned BLACK-NECKED STILT+ SANDWICH TERN+ YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) BROWN PELICAN Least Bittern Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover MARBLED GODWIT Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot White-rumped Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Iceland Gull Least Tern Gull-billed Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern ARCTIC TERN Forster’s Tern Royal Tern Black Skimmer Red-headed Woodpecker Cliff Swallow Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler KENTUCKY WARBLER Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER BLUE GROSBEAK 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 [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, June 30, 2017 at 8:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, SANDWICH and ARCTIC TERNS, BROWN PELICAN reports, BLACK-NECKED STILT, MARBLED GODWIT, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK and DICKCISSEL. Among this week’s most interesting birds, perhaps the most unexpected was the male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD spotted mid-day Wednesday around the manicured fields near the entrance to Smith Point County Park in Shirley. Also, just west of Smith Point the MARBLED GODWIT was reported again Sunday around the Old Inlet in Bellport Bay, with an ICELAND GULL and 11 ROYAL TERNS there Wednesday. Out at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes the flats north of the parking lot continue to be productive. Last Saturday the variety of TERNS there, besides COMMON, LEAST and FORSTER’S, also included 2 young ARCTICS, 1 ROSEATE, 2 BLACK and 3 ROYAL TERNS plus some BLACK SKIMMERS. And the gathering of shorebirds there at that date was also quite notable, topped by a BLACK-NECKED STILT present for most of the day, but also including 1 SEMIPALMATED and 18 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 27 RED KNOTS, 9 RUDDY TURNSTONES, about 30 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, and a single WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. Around noon Thursday morning a SANDWICH TERN also visited the flats, along with 2 BLACK and 4 ROSEATE TERNS, and again today the SANDWICH TERN was seen on the flats this morning, along with 1 ARCTIC, 2 BLACK and 6 ROYAL TERNS. At Nickerson Beach Park in Lido Beach among the TERNS Monday were 2 GULL-BILLED, 3 ROSEATE and a ROYAL, while last Saturday between Fort Tilden and Breezy Point there were 4 ROSEATE and 3 ROYAL TERNS. Noted on Facebook recently were 2 sets of photos from last Sunday of 2 BROWN PELICANS, one listed as from Silver Point in Nassau County and the other off Fire Island. We have no other information on these, but this is a species to watch for, especially along the south shore of Long Island. In Prospect Park, LEAST BITTERN was still present and seen periodically around the lake at least to Wednesday. An adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER spotted Saturday at Connetquot River State Park was seen again there on Wednesday. Though YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS are not being seen regularly at Connetquot this year, 1 has continued at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, reported there today. At least 2 dozen singing DICKCISSELS have recently been found in New York State, mostly well up north; on Long Island a male has been seemingly on territory recently at Caumsett State Park at least to Wednesday, using the restoration fields just west of the parking lot. A BLUE GROSBEAK was seen again Tuesday at the Calverton Grasslands, and, more unusually, one was spotted Thursday at Inwood Hill Park in Northern Manhattan. CLIFF SWALLOWS are again nesting at Orchard Beach, Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx. This is the time of year to find some floaters in the City parks, these presumably mostly birds unmated or disrupted during the nesting season. Certainly unexpected was the KENTUCKY WARBLER singing Sunday in Central Park’s Ramble, and other floaters have recently included WORM-EATING, MAGNOLIA and BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS, NORTHERN PARULA, and OVENBIRD, while LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH may now be a very early southbound migrant. To phone in reports, please call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a message. 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/ --
