- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * May. 17, 2024 * NYNY2405.17 - Birds mentioned
BICKNELL'S THRUSH+ WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) HARLEQUIN DUCK Stilt Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Roseate Tern Sooty Shearwater RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Grasshopper Sparrow LARK SPARROW YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER Tennessee Warbler Mourning Warbler KENTUCKY WARBLER Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler SUMMER TANAGER BLUE GROSBEAK - Transcript 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 nysarc44 (at)nybirds{dot}org. 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 Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, May 17th, 2024* at 11 pm. The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN TANAGER, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-THROATED, GOLDEN-WINGED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, other Spring migrants and more. Not a dynamic week thanks to the weather but a male WESTERN TANAGER was found and photographed Wednesday afternoon in Hudson River Park in the Chelsea section of downtown Manhattan where it was also reported calling early Thursday morning but could not be relocated thereafter. A YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD found last Friday in Queens was still present today at Sunset Cove Park which is located off Cross Bay Boulevard on the southwest side of Broad Channel. The female HARLEQUIN DUCKS spotted offshore at this park last week has continued there at least through Thursday. Another female HARLEQUIN DUCK was seen last Sunday off Robert Moses State Park where a seawatch also produced a PARASITIC JAEGER and a SOOTY SHEARWATER plus 15 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 5 ROSEATE TERNS. Two CASPIAN TERNS were spotted off Breezy Point Tuesday and 2 also reported off the lower West Side of Manhattan Tuesday and Wednesday. A STILT SANDPIPER visited the dune pools at Jones Beach West End field 2 at least to Tuesday joined there by a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER appeared in Central Park last Saturday with another in Manhattan noted Tuesday and Thursday in a small park east of 1st Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets. Another RED-HEADED spent the week at least to Thursday in the North Garden at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with one also at Connetquot River State Park on Tuesday. They also continue along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville. A LARK SPARROW was found Monday on the East Pond side of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW visited Bayswater Point State Park in Queens last Sunday while thrushes now feature a few GRAY-CHEEKED and BICKNELL'S these requiring careful effort for separation. The flycatcher mix has improved with the arrival of more OLIVE-SIDEDS and was as ACADIAN, ALDER and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was seen in Green-wood Cemetery yesterday and this morning and a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER visited Prospect Park last Saturday while today single KENTUCKY WARBLERS were found in Cabrini Woods at the south end of Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan and at Strack Pond at the western end of Forest Park in Queens. A good variety of other warblers this week, many in fairly low numbers, did feature some TENNESSEE, a few MOURNING and HOODED, some CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED and BLACKBURNIAN and increasing BLACKPOLL, CANADA and WILSON'S. Several SUMMER TANAGERS this week included multiples in Central Park with others in Forest Park Monday and Inwood Hill Park and on Staten Island today as well as a few on eastern Long Island and appropriate breeding areas. BLUE GROSBEAKS have also settled into desired eastern Long Island nesting territories so please make sure not to disturb these birds during this critical time in their life-cycle. To phone in reports, call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling. - End transcript -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
