[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 27 May 2016

[Gail Benson]

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 27, 2016
* NYNY1605.27

- Birds Mentioned

PACIFIC LOON+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Common Loon
Sooty Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
Northern Gannet
WHIMBREL
Pectoral Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
SNOWY OWL
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Nelson’s Sparrow
SUMMER TANAGER
DICKCISSEL

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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

NOTE: DUE TO APPARENT TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES THE PHONE TAPE HAS NOT YET
BEEN RECORDED.

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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 27, 2016 at
6:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are PACIFIC LOON, MANX SHEAWATER, SNOWY OWL,
GULL-BILLED TERN, WHIMBREL, DICKCISSEL, SUMMER TANAGER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, and other spring migrants.

Sea watching from the south shore of Long Island produced a small flight of
tubenoses last Saturday afternoon, with 1 MANX and 7 SOOTY SHEARWATERS seen
moving east off Robert Moses State Park Field 2.  The first 3, including
the MANX, were close in, but abating winds moved the flight line further
offshore. Early morning or late afternoon watches, with onshore winds
especially, can be very productive.  Even better, on Sunday mid-morning a
sea watch from the same Robert Moses Field 2 location provided a breeding
plumaged PACIFIC LOON flying east in the company of a COMMON LOON.   A few
NORTHERN GANNETS were also among the other offshore migrants.

Another bird of interest was a SNOWY OWL present on Great Gull Island in
eastern Long Island Sound back on Friday the 20th, perhaps the same bird
photographed at the end of April on Fisher’s Island.

Some TERNS arriving recently have featured 2 GULL-BILLEDS around the south
marsh below the former West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last
Sunday; a ROYAL at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes commencing
Wednesday, a ROSEATE at Nickerson Beach today, and an increasing number of
BLACK SKIMMERS.

The late build-up of LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS might be starting, with 4
spotted at Robert Moses State Park Sunday.

Among the shorebirds, which are presumably nearing peak numbers now, have
been a few WHIMBRELS this week, including 1 at Big Egg Marsh in Jamaica Bay
Monday, and then on Wednesday sightings of 3 at Breezy Point and singles at
Plumb Beach in Brooklyn and Marshlands Conservancy in Rye.  A PECTORAL
SANDPIPER was at Big Egg Saturday and 3 dropped by Plumb Beach Monday.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was visiting the feeders at Connetquot River State
Park yesterday, where, to begin the passerines, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
also continues.

Warbler numbers in general have been expectedly dropping off, though
Wednesday’s flight did replenish the dwindling totals, mostly with females
and anticipated late migrants.  MOURNING WARBLERS have been nicely
represented in the city parks and elsewhere, and among the others have been
a couple of CERULEANS, one in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan
Thursday and another last Friday at Owl’s Head Park in Brooklyn among a
nice mix of warblers and other landbirds there that day.  A YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT was found Wednesday at Strawberry Fields in Central Park and lingered
to Thursday, and other warblers have featured WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, CAPE
MAY, BAY-BREASTED, HOODED and WILSON’S.

A very small number of PHILADELPHIA VIREOS, tough here in Spring and
sometimes confused with similar Vireos, included birds this week described
from Central Park during mid-week, at Trinity Church in lower Manhattan
Wednesday, and in Highland Park at the western end of Forest Park in Queens
Thursday.

A nice find today was a male DICKCISSEL at the north end of Central Park
near the Great Hill at about West 106th Street.

A few scattered SUMMER TANAGER reports included 1 or more in Central Park
last weekend, singles Sunday at Hempstead Lake State Park and by the former
Grumman Airport in Calverton, and 1 at Jones Beach West End Thursday.

Flycatchers lately have included a few OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS and the 5
eastern Empidonax species, where vocalizations are hop

[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Friday May 27, 2016 incl. Dickcissel and Blue-headed Vireo

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC - North End +
Friday May 27, 2016
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Conservatory 
Garden at 9am. 

Canada Goose - 9 Meer
Gadwall - 2 males Meer
Mallard 6+ Meer
Double-crested Cormorant - flyovers
Great Egret - flyovers
Black-crowned Night-Heron - flyovers
Red-tailed Hawk - circling over Lasker Rink/Pool
Herring Gull - flyovers
Mourning Dove 
Chimney Swift - flyovers and dipping in water at the Meer
Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard
Downy Woodpecker - Great Hill
Northern Flicker - pair west end of Loch + 2 others
Blue-headed Vireo - Island in Meer
Warbling Vireo - pair Ft. Clinton
Red-eyed Vireo - at least 15
Eastern Wood-Pewee - calling & seen
Empidonax Flycatcher - near Conservatory Garden
Eastern Kingbird - (heard) Reservoir (Deb)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow- 2 Perched at Loch in construction area (Peter 
Haskel)
Barn Swallow - 2 Meer
Black-capped Chickadee - Ramble (Deb)
White-breasted Nuthatch - male at the Gill (Deb)
House Wren - Blockhouse (group), west of Wildflower Meadow (Deb afternoon)
Gray-cheeked Thrush - Loch (Bob before walk)
Swainson's Thrush - Loch (Bob before walk)
Wood Thrush - 3 singing males (NE, NW & SW Loch) 
Northern Mockingbird - Children's Glade
Cedar Waxwing - pair Conservatory Garden, 8 Great Hill
Black-and-white Warbler - female Gill (Deb)
Common Yellowthroat - male & female Conservatory Garden
American Redstart - fairly common including adult male Loch & Conservatory 
Garden
Northern Parula - Conservatory Garden (Bob before walk)
Magnolia Warbler - Conservatory Garden & Loch
Yellow Warbler - Conservatory Garden
Chestnut-sided Warbler - adult male Loch
Blackpoll Warbler - male Meer Island, many heard
Eastern Towhee - one singing & one calling south of Summer House (Deb)
Song Sparrow - pair Conservatory Garden
White-throated Sparrow - 1 Loch
Indigo Bunting - adult male Green Bench (Bob before walk)
Dickcissel - feeding with House Sparrows and European Starlings NW Great Hill 
found by British couple on our bird walk
Red-winged Blackbird - males Meer
Brown-headed Cowbird - pair Conservatory Garden
House Finch - fledglings Great Hill

At a little after noon Patricia Klein called to report a Prothonotary Warbler 
near the Azalea Pond mudflat. 

Deb Allen

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Re: [nysbirds-l] Roseate Tern at Nickerson Beach

[Robert Taylor]

I refound the tern- it's in the colony and appears to be paired up with a
common tern.

Rob in Massapequa

On Friday, May 27, 2016, syschiff  wrote:

> An adult ROSEATE TERN was near the water at Nickerson Beach this morning
> (05/27/2016) opposite the Tern/Skimmer colony.  It had a very lovely pink
> breast.
>
> The tern was banded with a silver band on its right leg and a square band
> on the left leg with the number F18. Can someone let me know where to
> report this info.
>
> Sy Schiff
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[nysbirds-l] Roseate Tern at Nickerson Beach

[syschiff]

An adult ROSEATE TERN was near the water at Nickerson Beach this morning 
(05/27/2016) opposite the Tern/Skimmer colony.  It had a very lovely pink 
breast.

The tern was banded with a silver band on its right leg and a square band on 
the left leg with the number F18. Can someone let me know where to report this 
info.

Sy Schiff

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