- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct 8, 2010
* NYNY1010.08
- Birds Mentioned:
BROWN BOOBY+
BICKNELL'S THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
CORY'S SHEARWATER
CATTLE EGRET
American Golden-Plover
White-rumped Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Parasitic Jaeger
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
SHORT-EARED OWL
Western Kingbird
Common Raven
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
SUMMER TANAGER
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
BLUE GROSBEAK
Indigo Bunting
DICKCISSEL
Bobolink
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, hardcopy reports and photos
or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:
Jeanne Skelly - Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
420 Chili-Scottsville Rd.
Churchville, NY 14428
~ Transcript ~
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070
To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 372-1483
Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126
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, October
8th, at 8:00pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN BOOBY,
CORY'S SHEARWATER, CATTLE EGRET, SHORT-EARED OWL, BICKNELL'S THRUSH,
SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL, LARK SPARROW, CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW, and CONNECTICUT WARBLER.
In another week of enjoyable variety, we first have the saga of the
Brown Booby. Last Friday an immature BROWN BOOBY was found in
distress in Lynbrook, Long Island, and taken to a nearby
rehabilitator. The booby was judged well enough to be released, and
on Saturday was set free off the Jones Beach fishing piers, though
perhaps an ocean release might have been more appropriate. Later on
Saturday the booby was recaptured in Freeport, having struck some
sailboat guy-wire and sustaining a broken wing. Now the booby is back
at the rehabilitator's for evaluation and treatment.
Despite not a lot of migratory movement, the parks around the city
produced some nice finds. In Central Park a BICKNELL'S THRUSH was
identified at Azalea Pond last Saturday, that same day finding an
immature BLUE GROSBEAK at the Great Hill, plus BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (present also on Sunday), and other warblers
including TENNESSEE WARBLER and HOODED WARBLER.
In Prospect Park Tuesday, a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was among nine
species of sparrows that included LINCOLN'S SPARROW and some
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, and a HOODED WARBLER was among the most
unusual of that family.
Brooklyn highlights Wednesday included two ROYAL TERNS at Dead Horse
Bay, and a BLUE GROSBEAK in the Community Gardens at Floyd Bennett
Field. Earlier an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER had been reported at Floyd
Bennett on Monday, this followed by an ORANGE-CROWNED at Clove Lakes
Park on Staten Island on Wednesday.
In Fort Tilden a SUMMER TANAGER, seen Saturday and Sunday just north
of the ball fields, was a nice surprise, and a CONNECTICUT WARBLER was
glimpsed in the same area on Sunday. A DICKCISSEL also flew over Fort
Tilden on Saturday, and then today, in that area, a nice flight at
Riis Park included a WESTERN KINGBIRD along the fence at the southwest
corner of the golf course.
In the Jones Beach area, a one-eyed CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was still
around the fence line at the West End Coast Guard Station through
Sunday, and a LARK SPARROW was reported there Wednesday.
Some very interesting West End sightings were a COMMON RAVEN east of
the Roosevelt Nature Center on Saturday, and a good high count of 55
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS in the swale between the West End 2 bath house
and the ocean on Tuesday.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was among a good variety of birds Saturday in
the rock pile at Point Lookout Town Park.
Robert Moses State Park also provided a good variety of birds. Last
Saturday a BLUE GROSBEAK and a DICKCISSEL were just west of the field
2 volleyball courts, with a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO nearby. A pelagic
watch off Moses field 2 Tuesday morning noted three CORY'S SHEARWATERS
and some unidentified shearwaters, a PARASITIC JAEGER, and three ROYAL
TERNS, while on shore were a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL in lot 2, and a
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. A MOURNING WARBLER was spotted in field 2
Wednesday, while a CATTLE EGRET stayed around field 5 at Moses Park to
Sunday.
A SHORT-EARED OWL flushed last Sunday at Heckscher State Park was the
first for this fall.
At Smith Point Park in Shirley last Saturday, a
