[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 20 April 2018
-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 20, 2018 * NYNY1804.20 - Birds Mentioned WHITE-FACED IBIS+ WOOD SANDPIPER+ WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Sooty Shearwater Green Heron Glossy Ibis Broad-winged Hawk Piping Plover Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper WHIMBREL Purple Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher RED PHALAROPE POMARINE JAEGER Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern Eastern Kingbird Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Bank Swallow Swainson’s Thrush Wood Thrush Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Orange-crowned Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Prairie Warbler SUMMER TANAGER Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak BLUE GROSBEAK Indigo Bunting 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 nysarc44nybirdsorg 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: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, April 20, 2018 at 8:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD SANDPIPER, an interesting WHIMBREL, RED PHALAROPE, WHITE-FACED IBIS, POMARINE JAEGER, WESTERN TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, SUMMER TANAGER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER and more spring arrivals. Though it doesn’t really feel like spring, some great birds are appearing despite, or because of, the unusual weather patterns we’ve been experiencing. A great find was New York’s third WOOD SANDPIPER, spotted late Monday afternoon on a temporary fairway wet area at Timber Point Golf Course at the end of Great River Road in Great River. The Sandpiper was still present Tuesday morning but left by 11 AM and could not be relocated thereafter. Good photos were obtained. New York’s first record, a 1907 specimen from upstate, was only correctly identified decades later in a museum, and another spent six days in Rye in late 1990. Another very interesting shorebird flying by Breezy Point last Sunday was identified as a WHIMBREL, and two photographs of not the best quality do show a white wedge up the back of the bird, indicating this would apparently be a Eurasian form of WHIMBREL. Making it even more interesting is that perhaps the possibility of Eurasian Curlew cannot fully be ruled out. Joining the great shorebird parade was a RED PHALAROPE still in non-breeding plumage that was photographed last Tuesday as it swam in the bay south of the Pelham Bay landfill. Other notable shorebirds included single WHIMBREL posted from Breezy Point last Saturday, hopefully looked at carefully, and one at Heckscher State Park Wednesday. Breezy Point also featured 8 PIPING PLOVERS and 32 PURPLE SANDPIPERS last Sunday, and both SHORT- and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were identified at Timber Point Tuesday, while arrivals included SPOTTED and SOLITARY SANDPIPERS. On Thursday two WHITE-FACED IBIS were identified in a GLOSSY IBIS flock at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area, this followed by one seen briefly this morning at nearby Cow Meadow Park in Freeport. Most notable among the landbirds was a female WESTERN TANAGER photographed Monday afternoon in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. A nice push of southern specialties into our area included a number of YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, with one at Jones Beach West End Saturday morning, one in Central Park last weekend, and one in Prospect Park from Saturday increasing to two by Monday and on into the week. Another continues at Bayard Cutting Arboretum. SUMMER TANAGERS also erupted this week, with one in Prospect Park Monday, one at Stony Brook Tuesday, one visiting Hempstead Lake State Park Tuesday to Thursday, one in Van Cortland Park Tuesday, one in Central Park Thursday, and one in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery for a few days to today, joined there by a BLUE GROSBEAK. Another BLUE GROSBEAK visited a feeder in Ridge Tuesday. A POMARINE JAEGER was photographed Monday in the Point Lookout parking lot, coming in from the storm, and two early SOOTY SHEARWATERS were spotted that day off Tiana Beach west of Shinnecock Inlet. Three CASPIAN TERNS visited Great Kills Park on Staten Island last Saturday, with an ICELAND GULL there also. A few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were topped by the nine at Floyd Bennett Field and eight at Robert Moses State Park during the storm Monday. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was present in Crocheron Park in Queens yesterday and today. A nice list of arrivals this week has includ
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri., April 20, 2018 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Blue-headed Vireo, many Hermit Thrushes & R-c Kinglets
Central Park NYC - North End Friday, April 20, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Windy and cold this morning: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Blue-headed Vireo, Palm Warbler, many Hermit Thrushes & Ruby-crowned Kinglets, a nice selection of sparrows, and both American Kestrel & Peregrine Falcon. Canada Goose - 6 Meer Mallard - Meer Ruddy Duck - Meer Mourning Dove - 6 Green Bench Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 2 or 3 at the Meer & 2 or 3 flyovers Great Egret - Meer & 2 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 Meer Island (Duck Island) Red-tailed Hawk - 4 (pair 5th Ave. & 106/108th Street, pair Central Park West & 95/96) Red-bellied Woodpecker - male in willow on west side of the Pool Downy Woodpecker - female fed peanuts by hand south side of the Great Hill Northern Flicker - 6 to 8 American Kestrel - male caught sparrow on the south shore of the Meer around noon Peregrine Falcon - juvenile female chasing Red-tailed Hawks Eastern Phoebe - west side of the Pool (Bob - early) Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Great Hill (David Barrett) & Loch) Blue Jay - residents Crow - 2 flyovers (silent) White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 or 2 (heard - David Barrett) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Green Bench (Bob - early) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25 to 30 Hermit Thrush - 50 American Robin - many (including 30 just on the North Meadow Ballfields) Brown Thrasher - along the Loch House Finch - a few along the Loch American Goldfinch - 2 or 3 along the Loch Eastern Towhee - 2 Loch Field Sparrow - south Great Hill Song Sparrow - Loch Swamp Sparrow - 2 Loch White-throated Sparrow - 20 Dark-eyed Junco - 12 Great Hill Red-winged Blackbird - 6 males Meer Common Grackle - 8 Meer Palm Warbler - 1 in 2 locations (Loch 7AM, and along Meer) Northern Cardinal - residents On twitter this morning @BirdCentralPark: Jordan Spindel reported an Ovenbird near West 86th Street Spencer Galen reported both Northern and Louisiana Waterthrushes at the Pond Matt Klein reported the Seaside Sparrow at the Pond Chris Cooper reported a Northern Waterthrush at Ladies' Pavilion -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] White-faced Ibis - Cow Meadow Park 4/20 (Nassau)
An adult White-faced Ibis was seen this morning at Cow Meadow Park in Freeport. It was seen at the pond by the parking area, but then flew off into the marsh. Despite searching, people have not redound it or seen any White- faced Ibis at the Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside today, where two were seen yesterday afternoon. Brendan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Purple sandpipers
There were 2 PUSA at the jetty at Cedar Beach in Mt Sinai this AM at @ 9:30. But they were on the east (sand) side of the jetty Mike Higgiston Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Purple sandpipers
There were 2 purple sandpipers on the jetty at Cedar Beach in Mt Sinai at 9:30 AM. But they were on the east (sand) side of the jetty Mike Higgiston Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Whimbrel
To anyone planning on looking for the whimbrel, be advised that a motorcycle group was setting up cones at 8:30 in hecksher’s field 7. Mike Higgiston Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Brooklyn - Summer Tanager Blue Grosbeak
For the last few days a bright male Summer Tanager and bright Blue Grosbeak have been feeding on the north and east sides of the Sylvan Water in the south-west corner of Greenwood Cemetery. There are some birch trees and a budding fruit tree that have attracted the most attention. Along with the charismatic birds there have been dozens of Yellow-rumps and Palms as well as a few Pines. An Indigo Bunting is also in the area. I can't imagine they've left overnight. Rob Bate Brooklyn -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
