[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 19 April 2019
- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 19, 2019 * NYNY1904.19 - Birds mentioned WHITE-FACED IBIS+ WHITE-WINGED DOVE+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Red-necked Grebe Lesser Black-backed Gull CASPIAN TERN Forster's Tern American Bittern Least Bittern Tricolored Heron Green Heron Clapper Rail Virginia Rail Sora Least Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Broad-winged Hawk Red-necked Grebe Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Orchard Oriole EVENING GROSBEAK RED CROSSBILL Vesper Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Purple Martin Cliff Swallow Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo White-eyed Vireo Black-and-White Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Blue-winged Warbler ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Prairie Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat HOODED WARBLER Wilson's Warbler American Redstart Gray Catbird House Wren Marsh Wren Wood Thrush Veery - 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 Compilers: Tom Burke and 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, April 19th 2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHITE-WINGED DOVE, WHITE-FACED IBIS, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, CASPIAN TERN, RED CROSSBILL, EVENING GROSBEAK and spring migrants. A much better migration this week with some exciting highlights. Last Sunday a WHITE-WINGED DOVE visited the feeder area at Evodia Field in Central Park in the later afternoon providing a first record for the park. Unfortunately, as with most of the sporadic appearances of this dove in our area, usually along our Atlantic coast, this one only stayed the one day. Then on Monday an adult WHITE-FACED IBIS in breeding plumage flew onto the Timber Point Golf Course with 28 Glossy Ibis stayed long enough to be nicely photographed and then moved off with the flock to the east seen once more in flight before disappearing. Carefully checking ibis flocks does pay off. The warbler situation also improved this week highlighted by the season's first PROTHONOTARY WARBLER found Tuesday in Prospect Park it was still present today being seen in the lower Lullwater below Terrace Bridge near the peninsula. Joining a continuing YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum this week were five other YELLOW-THROATEDS including 2 in Prospect Park Tuesday with at least one still there today. Another YELLOW-THROATED was found Wednesday in Connetquot River State Park, a recent nesting site for the species, and then today singles also appeared in both Central Park and Forest Park in Queens. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen last Saturday in Southard's Pond Park in Babylon and a HOODED WARBLER visited the north end of Central Park last Sunday. Among the other warblers reported this week were OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, BLUE-WINGED, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, AMERICAN REDSTART, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA and WILSON'S with increasing numbers for LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, BLACK-AND-WHITE and PRAIRIE and even more so for PINE, PALM and YELLOW-RUMPED. RED CROSSBILLS continue out in Manorville with nesting activities noted along the Paumanok Path off the western side of Schultz Road just north of Jones Pond. Please make sure there is no disturbance of these rare local breeders. Another winter finch of note was the female EVENING GROSBEAK visiting Prospect Park from Sunday to Wednesday. On Wednesday a VESPER SPARROW was spotted in Prospect Park with 2 more that day at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Last Saturday 2 CASPIAN TERNS visited Croton Point Park in Westchester County and FORSTER'S TERNS arrived in numbers during the week. Up to 4 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen at Heckscher State Park during the week with one also at Floyd Bennett Field today. An AMERICAN BITTERN was roosting in Central Park's north end Wednesday and a RED-NECKED GREBE was off Orient Point today. Among the recent arrivals noted this week have been CHIMNEY SWIFT, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, CLAPPER and VIRGINIA RAILS and SORA, LEAST, SPOTTED and SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, LEAST BITTERN and TRICOLORED and GREEN HERONS and BROAD-WINGED HAWK with 25 over Hook Mountain Wednesday while among the passerines were
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 19 April 2019
- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 19, 2019 * NYNY1904.19 - Birds mentioned WHITE-FACED IBIS+ WHITE-WINGED DOVE+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Red-necked Grebe Lesser Black-backed Gull CASPIAN TERN Forster's Tern American Bittern Least Bittern Tricolored Heron Green Heron Clapper Rail Virginia Rail Sora Least Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Broad-winged Hawk Red-necked Grebe Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Orchard Oriole EVENING GROSBEAK RED CROSSBILL Vesper Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Purple Martin Cliff Swallow Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo White-eyed Vireo Black-and-White Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Blue-winged Warbler ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Prairie Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat HOODED WARBLER Wilson's Warbler American Redstart Gray Catbird House Wren Marsh Wren Wood Thrush Veery - 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 Compilers: Tom Burke and 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, April 19th 2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHITE-WINGED DOVE, WHITE-FACED IBIS, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, CASPIAN TERN, RED CROSSBILL, EVENING GROSBEAK and spring migrants. A much better migration this week with some exciting highlights. Last Sunday a WHITE-WINGED DOVE visited the feeder area at Evodia Field in Central Park in the later afternoon providing a first record for the park. Unfortunately, as with most of the sporadic appearances of this dove in our area, usually along our Atlantic coast, this one only stayed the one day. Then on Monday an adult WHITE-FACED IBIS in breeding plumage flew onto the Timber Point Golf Course with 28 Glossy Ibis stayed long enough to be nicely photographed and then moved off with the flock to the east seen once more in flight before disappearing. Carefully checking ibis flocks does pay off. The warbler situation also improved this week highlighted by the season's first PROTHONOTARY WARBLER found Tuesday in Prospect Park it was still present today being seen in the lower Lullwater below Terrace Bridge near the peninsula. Joining a continuing YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum this week were five other YELLOW-THROATEDS including 2 in Prospect Park Tuesday with at least one still there today. Another YELLOW-THROATED was found Wednesday in Connetquot River State Park, a recent nesting site for the species, and then today singles also appeared in both Central Park and Forest Park in Queens. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen last Saturday in Southard's Pond Park in Babylon and a HOODED WARBLER visited the north end of Central Park last Sunday. Among the other warblers reported this week were OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, BLUE-WINGED, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, AMERICAN REDSTART, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA and WILSON'S with increasing numbers for LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, BLACK-AND-WHITE and PRAIRIE and even more so for PINE, PALM and YELLOW-RUMPED. RED CROSSBILLS continue out in Manorville with nesting activities noted along the Paumanok Path off the western side of Schultz Road just north of Jones Pond. Please make sure there is no disturbance of these rare local breeders. Another winter finch of note was the female EVENING GROSBEAK visiting Prospect Park from Sunday to Wednesday. On Wednesday a VESPER SPARROW was spotted in Prospect Park with 2 more that day at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Last Saturday 2 CASPIAN TERNS visited Croton Point Park in Westchester County and FORSTER'S TERNS arrived in numbers during the week. Up to 4 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen at Heckscher State Park during the week with one also at Floyd Bennett Field today. An AMERICAN BITTERN was roosting in Central Park's north end Wednesday and a RED-NECKED GREBE was off Orient Point today. Among the recent arrivals noted this week have been CHIMNEY SWIFT, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, CLAPPER and VIRGINIA RAILS and SORA, LEAST, SPOTTED and SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, LEAST BITTERN and TRICOLORED and GREEN HERONS and BROAD-WINGED HAWK with 25 over Hook Mountain Wednesday while among the passerines were