[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 9 April 2021
-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 09, 2021 * NYNY2104.09 PROGNE MARTIN+ WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER HARLEQUIN DUCK Clapper Rail SANDHILL CRANE Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull GLAUCOUS GULL Forster’s Tern Northern Gannet Little Blue Heron Red-headed Woodpecker Blue-headed Vireo Cliff Swallow House Wren Marsh Wren Purple Finch RED CROSSBILL Pine Siskin White-crowned Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER 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 Compiler: Tom Burke 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 9, 2021 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are the Prospect Park MARTIN, WESTERN TANAGER, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, GLAUCOUS GULL, YELLOW-THROATED and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, RED CROSSBILL, spring migrants and more. The PROGNE MARTIN first spotted around Prospect Park Lake on Thursday, April 1st, did linger there through mid-day on Sunday, enabling many photos to be taken, but positive specific identification remains uncertain. Consensus currently seems to be favoring Gray-breasted Martin over the Cuban, Caribbean and Sinaloa Martin group, but much more research needs to be done. Stay tuned. The female WESTERN TANAGER, still lingering today in Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park, is usually seen near the feeders located just inside the park on the east side of East End Avenue a little south of East 86th Street. The ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER along the south perimeter of Gracie Mansion was still present Wednesday, while another ORANGE-CROWNED was photographed Thursday near the Pool in Central Park. A SANDHILL CRANE appeared last Sunday over Nannahagen Park in Pleasantville in Westchester County. Sea ducks at the Point Lookout side of Jones Inlet have recently featured three KING EIDERS, two young males and a female, along with three HARLEQUIN DUCKS, including a drake. Eighty NORTHERN GANNETS were also counted there today. White-winged Gulls this week were represented by a GLAUCOUS GULL at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Thursday and single ICELAND GULLS at Prospect Park Lake and Randall’s Island last Sunday, while a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS included three at Jones Beach State Park Sunday. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER has returned to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, where it will hopefully stay to nest, and another was found today in Willowbrook Park on Staten Island. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues along the Paumanok Trail in Manorville, parking for which is off Schultz Road near Jones Pond; this site also continues to attract around ten RED CROSSILLS. Some PINE SISKINS and returning PURPLE FINCHES were also noted this week. A LINCOLN’S SPARROW continues in Central Park’s north end, while a growing number of spring migrants this week included CLAPPER RAIL, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WILLET, FORSTER’S TERN, LITTLE BLUE HERON, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW, HOUSE and MARSH WRENS, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. 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 -- 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] NYC Area RBA: 9 April 2021
-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 09, 2021 * NYNY2104.09 PROGNE MARTIN+ WESTERN TANAGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER HARLEQUIN DUCK Clapper Rail SANDHILL CRANE Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull GLAUCOUS GULL Forster’s Tern Northern Gannet Little Blue Heron Red-headed Woodpecker Blue-headed Vireo Cliff Swallow House Wren Marsh Wren Purple Finch RED CROSSBILL Pine Siskin White-crowned Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER 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 Compiler: Tom Burke 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 9, 2021 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are the Prospect Park MARTIN, WESTERN TANAGER, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, GLAUCOUS GULL, YELLOW-THROATED and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, RED CROSSBILL, spring migrants and more. The PROGNE MARTIN first spotted around Prospect Park Lake on Thursday, April 1st, did linger there through mid-day on Sunday, enabling many photos to be taken, but positive specific identification remains uncertain. Consensus currently seems to be favoring Gray-breasted Martin over the Cuban, Caribbean and Sinaloa Martin group, but much more research needs to be done. Stay tuned. The female WESTERN TANAGER, still lingering today in Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park, is usually seen near the feeders located just inside the park on the east side of East End Avenue a little south of East 86th Street. The ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER along the south perimeter of Gracie Mansion was still present Wednesday, while another ORANGE-CROWNED was photographed Thursday near the Pool in Central Park. A SANDHILL CRANE appeared last Sunday over Nannahagen Park in Pleasantville in Westchester County. Sea ducks at the Point Lookout side of Jones Inlet have recently featured three KING EIDERS, two young males and a female, along with three HARLEQUIN DUCKS, including a drake. Eighty NORTHERN GANNETS were also counted there today. White-winged Gulls this week were represented by a GLAUCOUS GULL at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Thursday and single ICELAND GULLS at Prospect Park Lake and Randall’s Island last Sunday, while a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS included three at Jones Beach State Park Sunday. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER has returned to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, where it will hopefully stay to nest, and another was found today in Willowbrook Park on Staten Island. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues along the Paumanok Trail in Manorville, parking for which is off Schultz Road near Jones Pond; this site also continues to attract around ten RED CROSSILLS. Some PINE SISKINS and returning PURPLE FINCHES were also noted this week. A LINCOLN’S SPARROW continues in Central Park’s north end, while a growing number of spring migrants this week included CLAPPER RAIL, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WILLET, FORSTER’S TERN, LITTLE BLUE HERON, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW, HOUSE and MARSH WRENS, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. 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 -- 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] Central Park NYC, Fri. Apr. 9, 2021 - E. Meadowlark, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Golden- and Ruby-crowned Kinglets
Central Park NY Friday April 9, 2021 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Eastern Meadowlark, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Golden- and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Eastern Phoebe. Later at Carl Schurz Park, the first-spring female Western Tanager continued at the feeders showing a considerable amount of molt in the greater coverts and tail, and two fairly fresh tertials on each wing. Canada Goose - 17 + a bird sitting on eggs at the south end of the Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 32 Gadwall - 4 Mallard - not many Bufflehead - 5 Hooded Merganser - young male with a bit of white on the crest at Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 5 Mourning Dove - 4 American Coot - 3 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 150 Greater Black-backed Gull - 6 Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Red-tailed Hawk - 3, though none seen at 5th Ave/106th Street nest Barred Owl - continued (pointed out by Beth Goffe) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 on north side of the Pool Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 (Wildflower Meadow) Eastern Phoebe - North Woods Blue Jay - 12 (6 mobbing the Barred Owl) American Crow - 2 flyovers Tufted Titmouse - 4 or 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - heard at the Loch Golden-crowned Kinglet - the Loch Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Green Bench and the Pool) Hermit Thrush - North Woods American Robin - 50+ Northern Mockingbird - 2 Plant Propagation Area House Finch - heard Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Loch (Alison Schondorf) Song Sparrow - 3 (one singing) Eastern Meadowlark - lone bird continued at North Meadow Ball Fields Red-winged Blackbird - 4 singing males Common Grackle - half a dozen Yellow-rumped Warbler - female north side of the Pool Northern Cardinal - 5 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] Central Park NYC, Fri. Apr. 9, 2021 - E. Meadowlark, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Golden- and Ruby-crowned Kinglets
Central Park NY Friday April 9, 2021 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Eastern Meadowlark, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Golden- and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Eastern Phoebe. Later at Carl Schurz Park, the first-spring female Western Tanager continued at the feeders showing a considerable amount of molt in the greater coverts and tail, and two fairly fresh tertials on each wing. Canada Goose - 17 + a bird sitting on eggs at the south end of the Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 32 Gadwall - 4 Mallard - not many Bufflehead - 5 Hooded Merganser - young male with a bit of white on the crest at Reservoir Ruddy Duck - 5 Mourning Dove - 4 American Coot - 3 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - around 150 Greater Black-backed Gull - 6 Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Red-tailed Hawk - 3, though none seen at 5th Ave/106th Street nest Barred Owl - continued (pointed out by Beth Goffe) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 on north side of the Pool Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 (Wildflower Meadow) Eastern Phoebe - North Woods Blue Jay - 12 (6 mobbing the Barred Owl) American Crow - 2 flyovers Tufted Titmouse - 4 or 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - heard at the Loch Golden-crowned Kinglet - the Loch Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Green Bench and the Pool) Hermit Thrush - North Woods American Robin - 50+ Northern Mockingbird - 2 Plant Propagation Area House Finch - heard Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Loch (Alison Schondorf) Song Sparrow - 3 (one singing) Eastern Meadowlark - lone bird continued at North Meadow Ball Fields Red-winged Blackbird - 4 singing males Common Grackle - half a dozen Yellow-rumped Warbler - female north side of the Pool Northern Cardinal - 5 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] 4/13: Free Zoom Screening of “Full Circle” documentary
FREE and open to all! Join The Linnaean Society of New York at 7pm, Tuesday, 4/13, for a special Zoom presentation, featuring a screening of the documentary, “Full Circle,” along with a talk from the film’s Executive Producer, Anne Via McCollough. For details and FREE REGISTRATION, visit our website: http://bit.ly/LSNYAprilZoom “Full Circle” provides an intimate view of the Great Gull Island Project. This documentary is about conservation and community that spans five decades, four countries, three continents, two millennia - all led by one remarkable woman, Helen Hays. “Full Circle” celebrates Hays and the thousands of volunteers who helped turn a paved-over, 17-acre island from a shuttered military base into a thriving habitat for threatened Common Terns and endangered Roseate Terns. Since 2005, Anne Via McCollough has been volunteering in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, working in Collections for Paul Sweet. During her years at the Museum, Anne learned about the Great Gull Island Project and volunteered—marking nests—on the island in 2013. By 2016, Anne and Ethan Ferkiss started Taking Flight Productions and began filming with photographers Phillip Townsend, and Michael Male, in 2018 Kathleen Matthews, on behalf of LNSY New York, NY 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] 4/13: Free Zoom Screening of “Full Circle” documentary
FREE and open to all! Join The Linnaean Society of New York at 7pm, Tuesday, 4/13, for a special Zoom presentation, featuring a screening of the documentary, “Full Circle,” along with a talk from the film’s Executive Producer, Anne Via McCollough. For details and FREE REGISTRATION, visit our website: http://bit.ly/LSNYAprilZoom “Full Circle” provides an intimate view of the Great Gull Island Project. This documentary is about conservation and community that spans five decades, four countries, three continents, two millennia - all led by one remarkable woman, Helen Hays. “Full Circle” celebrates Hays and the thousands of volunteers who helped turn a paved-over, 17-acre island from a shuttered military base into a thriving habitat for threatened Common Terns and endangered Roseate Terns. Since 2005, Anne Via McCollough has been volunteering in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, working in Collections for Paul Sweet. During her years at the Museum, Anne learned about the Great Gull Island Project and volunteered—marking nests—on the island in 2013. By 2016, Anne and Ethan Ferkiss started Taking Flight Productions and began filming with photographers Phillip Townsend, and Michael Male, in 2018 Kathleen Matthews, on behalf of LNSY New York, NY 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] Manhattan, NYC Thursday, 4/8 - Pileated WP, E. Meadowlark, Or.-cr. Warbler x2, N. Parula, etc.
Manhattan, N.Y. City, Thursday, April 8th - Needs to be noted, the female W. Tanager was still in Carl Schurz Park, & also there, the ongoing (also overwintered) Orange-crowned Warbler, on 4/8. Always a very unexpected sight in Manhattan (although not ‘mega’ rare there), a Pileated Woodpecker was found at Inwood Hill Park near the island’s northern end, seen by a number of observers, with obviously great views, as their photos indicate. The northern part of Manhattan is certainly the spot to anticipate the chances of this species, & early spring a fairly good time to have one come in for a visit; it will be interesting to see whether it decides to stick around at all. Another (2nd, different) Orange-crowned Warbler showed up, this latest in Central Park Thursday, by the Pool; one might wonder how far it came, whether it may have wintered not so distantly from Manhattan. A still-early N. Parula was ongoing in the Ramble in Central, with many observers. And an E. Meadowlark was still in the north end of Central Park, lingering a bit longer than that species usually will for that park. At least some fresh migration had taken place overnight Wed.-to-Thursday with a modest uptick of Pine Warblers, along with modest shifts of some other migrants. There are signs that some of the many B.-c. Chickadees & Tufted Titmice of the past winter may be getting on their way, but it remains to be seen how many of either species linger on a while. .. A nice variety of native plants have begun to flower, along with the many ornamental varieties of trees, shrubs & smaller plants, in Manhattan’s various parks. One of the trees starting to show blooms (and which does so ahead of their leaf-out) is Eastern Redbud, found in a number of locations around N.Y. county. good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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] Manhattan, NYC Thursday, 4/8 - Pileated WP, E. Meadowlark, Or.-cr. Warbler x2, N. Parula, etc.
Manhattan, N.Y. City, Thursday, April 8th - Needs to be noted, the female W. Tanager was still in Carl Schurz Park, & also there, the ongoing (also overwintered) Orange-crowned Warbler, on 4/8. Always a very unexpected sight in Manhattan (although not ‘mega’ rare there), a Pileated Woodpecker was found at Inwood Hill Park near the island’s northern end, seen by a number of observers, with obviously great views, as their photos indicate. The northern part of Manhattan is certainly the spot to anticipate the chances of this species, & early spring a fairly good time to have one come in for a visit; it will be interesting to see whether it decides to stick around at all. Another (2nd, different) Orange-crowned Warbler showed up, this latest in Central Park Thursday, by the Pool; one might wonder how far it came, whether it may have wintered not so distantly from Manhattan. A still-early N. Parula was ongoing in the Ramble in Central, with many observers. And an E. Meadowlark was still in the north end of Central Park, lingering a bit longer than that species usually will for that park. At least some fresh migration had taken place overnight Wed.-to-Thursday with a modest uptick of Pine Warblers, along with modest shifts of some other migrants. There are signs that some of the many B.-c. Chickadees & Tufted Titmice of the past winter may be getting on their way, but it remains to be seen how many of either species linger on a while. .. A nice variety of native plants have begun to flower, along with the many ornamental varieties of trees, shrubs & smaller plants, in Manhattan’s various parks. One of the trees starting to show blooms (and which does so ahead of their leaf-out) is Eastern Redbud, found in a number of locations around N.Y. county. good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/ --
