- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sep. 14, 2018 * NYNY1809.14
- Birds mentioned Green Heron Virginia Rail Sora AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Stilt Sandpiper BAIRD'S SANDPIPER White-rumped Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Parasitic Jaeger LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL Caspian Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Royal Tern Red-headed Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher PHILADELPHIA VIREO Ruby-crowned Kinglet Worm-eating Warbler Tennessee Warbler CONNECTICUT WARBLER Mourning Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Palm Warbler Wilson's Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT SUMMER TANAGER BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL Purple Finch - 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 Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 14th 2018 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are MARBLED GODWIT, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, good numbers of LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and DICKCISSEL. Though a week without any exceptional rarities, perhaps in part due to a relatively unproductive stagnant weather system, the variety remained good including among the shorebirds. A MARBLED GODWIT still on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Saturday was followed by one or two from Tuesday through today on the bar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End. HUDSONIAN GODWITS were also seen at both of these sites, Jamaica Bay featuring three on the East Pond last Saturday dropping to one by Thursday while at the West End two were noted Monday and three reported Tuesday with two still there Thursday. Three more HUDSONIANS were photographed at Nickerson Beach last Monday. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER were among the shorebirds spotted at Heckscher State Park Thursday and still present there today. Three more BUFF-BREASTEDS were on a sod farm south of Sound Avenue and west of Doctor's Path in Riverhead last Saturday. Another briefly visited Jamaica Bay's East Pond Sunday and one also appeared at Democrat Point on Fire Island's western tip on Thursday. A BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was noted Saturday on Miller Field on Staten Island where a peak of 6 WHIMBREL were counted Monday this number dropping off to two Friday. Other WHIMBREL included singles last Saturday at Breezy Point and Fort Tilden, Sunday at Coney Island, Sunday and Monday at Plumb Beach and Tuesday at Floyd Bennett Field. A LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was reported again at Santapogue Creek in West Babylon Saturday and other notable shorebirds all present at Jamaica Bay included STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS. Also on the East Pond last weekend was a SORA seen along the west side of the south end and unexpectedly a SORA also showed up in Bryant Park in Manhattan today a presumably storm related incursion of LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS featured a high count of 90 at field 5 at Robert Moses State Park last Monday that day also finding 61 at Smith Point County Park and 43 at Jones Beach West End Field 2. Numerous sightings of one or two CASPIAN TERNS this week came from such sites as Breezy Point, Plumb Beach, Floyd Bennett Field, Jamaica Bay's East Pond, Jones Beach West End and Cupsogue County Park and ROYAL TERNS also remain along Long Island's south shore. A PARASITIC JAEGER off Coney Island Beach on Monday was joined there by a ROSEATE and three BLACK TERNS. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER visited Central Park’s Ramble on Tuesday. Among the passerines two SUMMER TANAGERS were reported Wednesday. One photographed at Battery Park in southern Manhattan the other in Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island while two BLUE GROSBEAKS were mentioned from a private site in Manhasset Sunday and another was noted at Fort Totten on Wednesday. A DICKCISSEL was seen briefly at Brooklyn's Calvert Vaux Park last Saturday. Early in the week single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were sighted from Hempstead Lake State Park Sunday, Central Park Monday and Jones Beach West End Tuesday. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was found on Governors Island last Saturday characteristically spotted walking on the ground. Another CONNECTICUT reported at Jones Beach West End Tuesday was rather unexpectedly noted foraging in Cherry Trees. A third CONNECTICUT WARBLER was spotted in a swarm of birds occurring during the 9-11 Tribute in Light Memorial Tuesday night into Wednesday morning in southern Manhattan. Among the few thousand birds comprised of 33 identified species that were swirling in the light beams were also a VIRGINIA RAIL, SPOTTED and SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, GREEN HERON and a nice variety of warblers and other seasonal migrants. Among the passerines of note this week were OLIVE-SIDED, YELLOW-BELLIED and ALDER FLYCATCHERS, a few PHILADELPHIA VIREOS, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, PURPLE FINCH and such warblers as TENNESSEE, CAPE MAY, PALM, BAY-BREASTED, WORM-EATING, WILSON'S and a MOURNING in Central Park last Sunday. To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. 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