[nysbirds-l] Seatuck Birding Challenge/South Shore Re-Tern Program Zoom Meeting

[Patricia Lindsay]

In case you were not on the invite for the list of participants, or if you
would just like to join in the fun and see what it's all about, please see
the info and link to Zoom meeting below.

Dear Friends -

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Seatuck Birding Challenge! We're
grateful for your passion for birds and for your patience in dealing with
the event's Covid-era rule changes.

I'm writing to invite you to join us for a brief Zoom meeting to announce
the results of the event and to hear some highlights from the day. *Please
join us at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 30. *Details about joining the
Zoom meeting are below.

Each team will have an opportunity to give a highlight or tell a brief
story from the day. Seatuck staff will also introduce our new "South Shore
Re-Tern" project, which seeks to ensure that tern nesting colonies persist
on the South Shore for many decades to come.

Please pass this along to any teammates we may have missed. And let me know
if you have any questions.

See you on Thursday!
Enrico

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*Seatuck Birding Challenge Meeting*
*Thursday, Sep 30, 2021 - 7:00 PM *

*Join Meeting by Video*:
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*Join Meeting by Phone: (*929) 205-6099
*Meeting ID:* 826 1700 4274
*Passcode: *794798

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[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Monday, 9/27 - CT Warbler, Mourning W., & 22 add'l. warbler spp., & more

[Thomas Fiore]

The TROPICAL Kingbird found by Dr. Richard Veit that was seen on Sunday 9/26 by 
many observers, at the southern part of Staten Island (Richmond County), which 
is part of N.Y. City, was NOT reported at all for Monday, 9/27.  And, the good 
numbers of E. Kingbirds that had seemed to accompany the find of that rarity 
for NYS, were greatly diminished on the search by those looking on Monday in 
that same area. Yes, there were birders a-plenty trying for the “T-K” on 
Monday, with no success being reported.

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There also appear to be *no new* (Monday) reports by Brooklyn-birders (Kings 
County, N.Y. City) of the photo-documented Western Tanager that was seen on 
*Sunday, 9/26* in that borough - and was reported to this list promptly (thanks 
to one of the two keen observers & photographers) - that sighting from Coney 
Island Creek Park in Brooklyn on Sunday morning; some nice photos are archived 
in eBird / Macaulay library.

.. .. 
N.B., as many on this list know, this is 'just-barely the start' of a season 
for greater possibility of more ‘vagrant’ species of many kinds in the area, as 
shown by many historical records for such occurrences. At the same time, we 
have been learning increasingly that a lot also can happen in late summer, with 
vagrancy. It is all an ongoing study; among many in or based in NY state, Dr. 
Veit -noted above- has been involved with such study for some time, and is a 
mentor now to a good many younger people involved in the biological sciences. 

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New York County (in N.Y. City) including Manhattan, Randall’s, and Governors 
Island[s]
Monday, Sept. 27th:

A Connecticut Warbler was found (by A. Evans) at the small Canal Park (western 
end of Canal Street, in lower Manhattan), with the warbler being seen several 
times there on Monday. (This very small park has over recent years produced 
sightings of a lot of great migrant birds, with the noted 1st observer being 
finder of a great many of them for that site.) The eBird checklist from K. 
Werner arriving later to see his life-bird CT Warbler has notes, along with 
photos, for the record: https://ebird.org/checklist/S95277634 
  with thanks to the finder (who 
reported this in eBird in good time!)  Others also arrived there to see this 
warbler on Monday!  It’s been a very good fall season for that species in N.Y. 
County; I have somewhat lost-track of all of the good 2021 sightings by now. 
Notable how many of these were *NOT* from the best-known Manhattan park that 
gets so much publicity, although yes, that place also had a good passage of the 
often-skulking species.

On the walk (benefiting a  non-profit org.) led by Gabriel Willow at Bryant 
Park (in Manhattan) on Monday morning, a Mourning Warbler as well as 
Gray-cheeked Thrush were seen & photographed, and among other sightings seen by 
the multiple particiapnts was a Lincoln’s Sparrow there.Note that in a 
recent report, I erred in mentioning the location of Bryant Park precisely - it 
is one city-block east [not west] of Times Square. Thanks to one of our 
greatest area-birders for pointing out the geographical-directional mixup!  And 
I ought to have caught my error as I have spent many, many hours over the 
decades visiting both Bryant Park and its adjacent NY Public Library, the main 
branch and research rooms. Bryant can be a fascinating smaller park to walk 
through seeking birds - as is true of many, many of NYC’s smaller (and some 
much less well-known or much-birded) parks and green-spaces. Part of the 
fascination is how diverse the array of birds over the course of a year, and 
over multiple years, can be seen even in such relatively smaller areas and some 
- Bryant nearly ‘epitomizing’ this - smack-dab in the midst of the metropolis… 
and, there is great ‘patch’ style birding and nature-observation possible in so 
many locations spread through N.Y. City, with the 4 outer-boroughs (counties) 
also having a fantastic array of such places.

The photograph from Fort Tryon Park on Sunday, 9/26 of a Myiarchus [genus] 
flycatcher (with M. & P. Waldron, observers) seems to my eyes as a typical 
Great Crested Flycatcher should appear, an apparent pale base to the lower 
mandible, with a fairly large bill, and other plumage-features seen pretty well 
in that photo, all seeming to add-up (again my opinion), and a nice record for 
the species, now getting just a bit ‘late’ in the season - that was the way the 
species was reported, incidentally.  All should be on the lookout for a 
*possibility* - somewhat obviously with the discovery of that N.Y. 
City-Richmond Co. Tropical Kingbird - of various other, vagrant flycatcher 
species moving through, and of which some do occasionally stick around for a 
while as the autumn continues. (All that noted, we do have later documented 
records for Great Crested Flycatcher but the species definitely becomes scarcer 
as the month of September ends.) See the photo in the Macaulay L