[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 8 August 2014

[Gail Benson]

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 8, 2014
* NYNY1408.08

- Birds Mentioned

WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Red-necked Grebe
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
BROWN PELICAN
AMERICAN AVOCET
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Canada Warbler
LARK SPARROW

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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, Tony Lauro
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, August 8 at
6:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are a pelagic trip with WHITE-FACED and
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS and AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN
AVOCET, MARBLED GODWIT, LARK SPARROW and more.

A private fishing boat last Friday the 1st ventured out 90 to 100 miles
into the Atlantic south east of Shinnecock, encountering a nice selection
of Storm-Petrels.  These included a WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL visiting a
chum slick and later 8 plus BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS also doing the same.
A single LEACH’S and about 80 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS were also present.
Three AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS were spotted in the warm water, but otherwise
only two GREAT SHEARWATERS were encountered.

A boat not too far off Montauk Point last Sunday recorded one GREAT and 22
CORY’S SHEARWATERS, 54 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and 6 WHIMBRELS.

Back on shore there were two sightings of BROWN PELICANS during the week—3
were moving west off Cedar Beach Monday evening, and then 2 appeared on the
Jones Inlet bar across from the Coast Guard Station Tuesday.

The East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge has recently provided a nice
variety of shorebirds, but numbers have not been overwhelming.  A
breeding-plumaged AMERICAN AVOCET was certainly a highlight over last
weekend and up through Wednesday, and a MARBLED GODWIT put in a brief
appearance on Wednesday on the pond, and then two were seen this morning in
the bay south of the West Pond breach.  Other East Pond shorebirds have
included a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Sunday, and just 1 or 2 of WESTERN,
WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL and STILT SANDPIPERS.

The land bird highlight this week was a LARK SPARROW found Thursday at
Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island and still present today.  The bird
has been ranging along the entire northern border of Lot 2 at the west end
of the Park, moving from the Golf Course end to the Volley Ball Courts
end.

At Jones Beach West End single BLACK and ROYAL TERNS were present Sunday
around the Coast Guard bar, and as the tide got higher Sunday morning the
number of LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS kept increasing in the West End 2
Parking Lot, with 34 the highest count, most in the western half of the
lot.

Two GULL-BILLED TERNS have been hanging around Plum Beach in Brooklyn
recently.

Moving East, a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was at the East Marina at the Timber
Point Golf Club Monday, and the RED-NECKED GREBE was still at Mecox Bay
Sunday.

Six WHIMBRELS were in Accabonac Harbor on the South Fork Thursday, and
another WHIMBREL and 25 plus BLACK TERNS were in Napeague Harbor the day
before.  Swallow movement recently has included some CLIFF and BANK
SWALLOWS, and among the few warblers appearing locally have been MAGNOLIA,
BLACKBURNIAN, BLACK-THROATEDS BLUE and GREEN, WORM-EATING, BLACK-AND-WHITE,
OVENBIRD, and CANADA.

To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or
weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483 <%28212%29%20372-1483>.

This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.

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[nysbirds-l] West Hampton Dune Overlook - Whimbrel

[Thomas Moran]

On Friday, August 8 at 4:45 about an hour 15 minutes before high tide, I saw
a Whimbrel with 3 Royal Terns and 4 Herring Gulls at the West Hampton Dunes
Overlook. The sandbar was just covered with water at this time. Earlier, at
Cupsogue, there were 31 Red Knots along with the standard fare. The Spotted
Sandpiper continues.

 

Tom Moran

Shoreham


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[nysbirds-l] Great Egret Schoharie, NY

[eileen corbett]

A Great Egret continues for the last 4 days at the Stone Store Forest Wetland 
on State Route 145, in Broome, Schoharie County, New York. Two Great Blue 
Herons also flew in to this site while observing the Egret.

E. Corbett
Broome, New York
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[nysbirds-l] Lark Sparrow

[Robert A. Proniewych]

The Lark Sparrow was found again this afternoon in field 2 of Robert Moses
State Park around 1:00pm. The ranges along the north side of the parking
lot from the closed west entrance to the open east exit. Observers besides
myself included Carson Wood, Mike Schiebel, Ed Becher and Bob Anderson.
Robert A. Proniewych

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[nysbirds-l] JBWR West Pond Marbled Godwits

[Michael Yuan]

Two feeding in the bayside flats closest to the dead end of the short path. 

Mike Yuan
Brooklyn, Ny

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[nysbirds-l] important NYSOA Conference deadlines

[Kathryn Schneider]

A couple of important deadlines are fast approaching for this fall’s NYSOA 
Annual Meeting / NYS Birders Conference, which will be held in Ithaca September 
19-21, 2014:
 
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DISCOUNT is available only through August 15.
RAMADA DISCOUNTED ROOM RATE is available only through August 19.
 
This year’s conference promises to be a very exciting event, chock full of 
great birding and educational activities, along with opportunities to catch up 
with old friends and make new ones. Highlights include a Friday evening 
reception at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Saturday morning field trips with 
local experts, a scientific paper session, and a banquet on Saturday featuring 
keynote speaker Dr. Bridget Stutchbury, who will let us in on the results of 
her New Discoveries in Bird Migration.
 
More information and a registration form are available on the NYSOA website, 
http://www.nybirds.org.  Fall in the Finger Lakes is both beautiful and busy, 
so sign up now!
 
Kathy Schneider
NYSOA President
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RE: [nysbirds-l] Lark Sparrow at Robert Moses S.P. (Suffolk)

[Shaibal Mitra]

The Lark Sparrow continues along the northern edge of Field 2.

Last night around 6:30 pm I found it a little more than halfway from the toll 
booths to the northeast corner. This morning around 7:15, with Patricia 
Lindsay, we found it at the extreme northeast corner. Flushed by an exiting 
vehicle, we were unable to re-find it. Much later, during my routine scraping 
of the area, I chanced upon it at the extreme northwest corner of the lot.

I think it is a hatching-year bird based on its generally neat appearance (the 
only adults I have ever confidently seen on LI have been ragged-looking, 
molting flight feathers) and based on the retention of a few small dark streaks 
on its breast sides (retained from juv plumage):

https://picasaweb.google.com/109808209543611018404/LongIslandMiscellany2014#6045206385380226930

It is my belief that even when such marks are not retained or discernible, the 
vast majority of our Long Island Lark Sparrows are birds of the year, but this 
bird's very early arrival date was at least suggestive of an adult.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

Ken Feustel [feus...@optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 9:00 AM
To: NYSBIRDS-l@cornell.edu
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Lark Sparrow at Robert Moses S.P. (Suffolk)

At 8:30AM a Lark Sparrow was found on the north side of RMSP Field 2, east of 
main entrance. Last observed along fence line at east end of Field 2, south of 
entrance to volleyball courts.

Sent from my iPhone

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[nysbirds-l] Tagged Herring Gull - yesterday at Orient Point

[Robert Taylor]

Hi Everyone,

Just a FYI that I found a tagged Herring Gull at Orient Point
yesterday...green tag "E85" metal tag "185" with small writing that I can't
make out yet.  Will report it and see what I can find out.  Other than
that, not much going on there from 6 - 8pm.

Good birding,
Rob in Massapequa
http://longislandbirding.blogspot.com/

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