- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sep. 18, 2009 * NYNY0909.18
- Birds mentioned Red-shouldered Hawk AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER AMERICAN AVOCET WHIMBREL MARBLED GODWIT White-rumped Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Long-billed Dowitcher Lesser Black-backed Gull Black Tern Royal Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo American Pipit Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Blackburnian Warbler CONNECTICUT WARBLER HOODED WARBLER Wilson's Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT CLAY-COLORED SPARROW LARK SPARROW Saltmarsh Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow - 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 nysa...@nybirds.org. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Jeanne Skelly - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 420 Chili-Scottsville Rd. Churchville, NY 14428 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, September 18th 2009 at 9:30pm. The highlights of today's tape are AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED GODWIT, WHIMBREL, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and Fall warblers including HOODED WARBLER, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, LARK SPARROW. AN AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was seen Tuesday at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn. Two other AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were heard calling in overhead passage on Monday at Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island. Another 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS continue to be seen through Wednesday at the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and a final single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was found last Saturday at the sod fields on Route 51 at Eastport where a single BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was also present. A good number of shorebirds were seen Tuesday at the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge including the aforementioned AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS along with the 2 previously reported AMERICAN AVOCETS, 16 STILT SANDPIPERS, 6 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS and 6 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. A MARBLED GODWIT was present last Saturday and Sunday at the sand bar at the Coast Guard Station area at West End Jones Beach. The 2 WHIMBRELS at Drier-Offerman Park previously reported in Brooklyn were still there today. Twenty species of warblers including TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER and HOODED WARBLER were seen Tuesday at Prospect Park Brooklyn along with an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. Five species of vireo (BLUE-HEADED VIREO, YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and RED-EYED VIREO) and 25 species of warblers were counted Wednesday in Central Park the best warbler being HOODED WARBLER along with both species of cuckoo (BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO & YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO) an AMERICAN PIPIT and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was found today at Drier-Offerman Park in Brooklyn near the ballfield. Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were reported last week, 1 at Strawberry Fields Central Park on Thursday and another yesterday and today at the Marshlands Conservancy in Rye at the top of the fields. Two CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were found last week, 1 at Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island parking field 2 on Tuesday. Also seen at this area were a WARBLING VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO and WHITE-EYED VIREO. The other CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found Thursday at Riis Park. Three LARK SPARROWS were seen last week, 2 on Saturday near the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach and another yesterday and continuing today at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Other interesting birds reported last week were 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS at Breezy Point on Thursday, a BLACK TERN last Saturday at Jones Beach West End, 6 ROYAL TERNS at the docking area at the Peconic River in Riverhead on Sunday, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK on Cooper Ave. in the Shoreham Wading River area on Tuesday, a SALTMARSH SPARROW at an uncommon location at Strawberry Fields in Central Park last Saturday. To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. - End transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
