-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sept. 27, 2019 * NYNY1909.27
- Birds Mentioned EURASIAN WIGEON Yellow-billed Cuckoo AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Stilt Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher WILSON’S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE POMARINE JAEGER Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern NORTHERN FULMAR Cory’s Shearwater Great Shearwater AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Leach’s Storm-Petrel Northern Gannet Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Philadelphia Vireo Northern Waterthrush Black-and-White Warbler Tennessee Warbler CONNECTICUT WARBLER Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT CLAY-COLORED SPARROW LARK SPARROW White-crowned Sparrow BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: view 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, September 27, 2019 at 10:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results including NORTHERN FULMAR, AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER, POMARINE JAEGER and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, EURASIAN WIGEON, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, CLAY-COLORED and LARK SPARROWS, DICKCISSEL, BLUE GROSBEAK and more. Last Sunday a pelagic trip organized by See Life Paulagics aboard the Brooklyn VI began a pleasant day on the ocean at water depth of over 7,000 feet, later working back through Hudson Canyon, with highlights including 21 NORTHERN FULMARS, 12 CORY’S, 323 GREAT and 23 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS, 1 LEACH’S and 222 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, an adult POMARINE JAEGER, 1 NORTHERN GANNET, 7 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 6 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. Though the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge still has too high a water level to attract large numbers of shorebirds, waterfowl numbers continue to build there, with a EURASIAN WIGEON showing up on the pond last Saturday. Despite the conditions, a reasonable selection of shorebirds this week did feature some HUDSONIAN GODWITS, with 5 noted there Monday, while Tuesday produced both a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE. Among the other shorebirds there have been a few STILT, PECTORAL, and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, with a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER also identified there last Sunday. Roughly 4 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS also continue along Santapogue Creek off Venetian Boulevard in West Babylon. At Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx, drained for the second time recently, there were still 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS present Monday, 2 on Tuesday, and a STILT SANDPIPER visited there today. Among the shorebirds at Jones Beach West End there were 3 or 4 MARBLED GODWITS seen on the bar off the Coast Guard Station through Monday, with 1 there Wednesday. A GULL-BILLED TERN also visited the bar from Saturday at least to Wednesday, and another GULL-BILLED was noted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Wednesday. Up to 3 CASPIAN TERNS were at Jones Beach West End over last weekend, and others were reported from Prospect Park Lake last Saturday, Plumb Beach Monday, Jamaica Bay Tuesday, and Smith Point County Park in Shirley Tuesday, the latter site on Tuesday also producing 65 ROYAL TERNS along with 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS offshore. A nice coastal fall flight took place Wednesday morning, witnessed by observers at both Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn and at Robert Moses State Park Field 2 on Fire Island. The mix of the most common of the identified WARBLERS varied slightly, but the flight featured good numbers of NORTHERN WATERTHUSH, BLACK-AND-WHITE, TENNESSEE, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, AMERICAN REDSTART, CAPE MAY, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA and BLACKPOLL, with lesser numbers of several other species. A CONNECTICUT was identified at Moses Park, and 2 WHIMBREL and a DICKCISSEL were among the other highlights there. Another DICKCISSEL was spotted at Jamaica BayWildlife Refuge last Saturday. A few BLUE GROSBEAKS included one at Moses Park Saturday to Tuesday, another at Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers Tuesday, and 1 at Sunken Meadow State Park Thursday. A LARK SPARROW was reported from Midland Beach on Staten Island Wednesday, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW featured singles at Moses Park last Saturday, and on Wednesday at Lido Beach Passive Preserve and Pelham Bay Park. A few YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS included birds at Moses Park Sunday and Tuesday, at the Avalon Preserve in Stony Brook Monday, and at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area today. Migrant RED-HEADED WOODPECKSERS appeared on Staten Island Sunday, in Prospect Park Tuesday, and on Governors Island today. Other recent migrants have included a decent number of YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, and LINCOLN’S and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. To phone in reports please call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a message. 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