- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 24, 2014
* NYNY1410.24
- Birds mentioned
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GOLDEN EAGLE
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
American Oystercatcher
MARBLED GODWIT
Red Knot
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Eastern Phoebe
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
American Pipit
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
Nelson's Sparrow
Snow Bunting
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
- 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
To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays, during the day)
Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 (Long Island)
Compiler: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 24th
2014 at 6pm. The highlights of today's tape are SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER,
MARBLED GODWIT, GOLDEN EAGLE, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER,
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK,
DICKCISSEL and RED-HEADED WOODPECKER.
Certainly this week's top rarity was an adult SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER
seen only briefly last Sunday morning at a private section of Sands Point
near East Creek on Long Island's north shore. Otherwise the highlight was
really an active migratory push through our area last weekend into Monday
with storm systems pretty much shutting things down after that.
Sunday morning found many thousands of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS along the
Atlantic shore. The birds reorienting themselves inland after having been
blown out over the ocean by the very strong overnight winds. Almost 8,000
Yellow-rumps were estimated at Fort Tilden and a stationary count at Robert
Moses State Park exceeded 10,000. Other species were actually not terribly
well represented in this flight including such expected diurnal migrants as
AMERICAN ROBIN and RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. At Fort Tilden some migrants
tallied Sunday included an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER going by with some
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 21 ROYAL TERNS moving south and 123 PINE SISKINS, 31
PURPLE FINCHES, 22 AMERICAN PIPITS and a DICKCISSEL. The Siskin totals
improved on Monday with 610 counted out at Coney Island Creek Park along
with good numbers of EASTERN PHOEBES, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS and the like.
Another surprise on Sunday was an immature GOLDEN EAGLE spotted over the
Edgemere Landfill in Far Rockaway. Also there Sunday were 3 WILSON'S SNIPE,
these certainly on the move as two more were noted at Jones Beach West End
Sunday along with singles at Randall's Island and Robert Moses State Park
and elsewhere. GOLDEN EAGLES have also now begun to appear at inland
hawkwatches but be aware that good numbers of Bald Eagles also continue to
move through.
A decent variety at Floyd Bennett Field Sunday featured single CLAY-COLORED
and VESPER SPARROWS and other good landbirds within city limits included a
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at Randall's Island last Friday and Sunday the latter
day also producing VESPER SPARROW and NELSON'S SPARROWS and a BLUE GROSBEAK
there. Another BLUE GROSBEAK in Central Park Saturday, WORM-EATING WARBLER
and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW in Prospect Park Monday and a LARK SPARROW at
Marine Park in Brooklyn today.
At Jones Beach West End the number of LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS gathering
at high tide in the West End 2 parking lot reached 46 late Saturday
afternoon with at least 30 there on Sunday. Also at high tide a MARBLED
GODWIT has been visiting the bar off the Coast Guard Station with 2 there
Sunday along with over 400 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS and other shorebirds
including 10 RED KNOTS and a couple of SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Large
numbers of FORSTER'S TERNS continue around Jones Inlet with some ROYAL
TERNS also lingering there.
Out a Robert Moses State Park notable landbirds included DICKCISSELS
Saturday through Monday a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW Saturday and Sunday, an
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Sunday and a SNOW BUNTING moving by today.
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