[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 24 April 2020

2020-04-24 Thread Ben Cacace
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 24, 2020
* NYNY2004.24

- Birds mentioned
BROWN PELICAN+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
GLAUCOUS GULL
ICELAND GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Caspian Tern
HARLEQUIN DUCK
KING EIDER
Least Bittern
Tricolored Heron
CATTLE EGRET
Little Blue Heron
Short-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
WHIMBREL
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
VESPER SPARROW
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
Scarlet Tanager
Cliff Swallow
Yellow-throated Vireo
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Worm-eating Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Black-throated Green Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush

- 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, April 24th 2020
at 10pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN PELICAN, WHITE-FACED
IBIS, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND
GULL, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, WHIMBREL and other shorebirds, CATTLE EGRET,
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, VESPER SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLER and spring migrants.

Early for our region, but always welcome, a BROWN PELICAN was spotted
flying by Robert Moses State Park last Saturday morning.

At least one of last week's WHITE-FACED IBIS at Timber Point Golf Course in
Great River visited the marsh by the East Marina a few times last weekend
with one of the few small flocks of Glossy Ibis moving around that area.
Though a WHITE-FACED was not reported there after Sunday among the other
unusual birds during the week were an immature BLACK-HEADED GULL, 2
WHIMBREL and 5 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS present there today. Three additional
WHIMBREL were noted on Fire Island east of Smith Point County Park last
Sunday.

At Orient Point an immature male KING EIDER joined the female there at
least to Thursday and 4 or more HARLEQUIN DUCKS remain as well with an
ICELAND GULL stopping by there Thursday. A GLAUCOUS GULL visited Lemon
Creek Park on Staten Island last Saturday. An immature BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKE was spotted off Moses Park Tuesday and some regional LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS starting to gather locally included 16 at Moses Park
Tuesday. A CASPIAN TERN was seen Monday and Thursday at Mecox Bay. A decent
spring location for this species.

A nice gathering of shorebirds at Captree Island last Sunday featured
single STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and LEAST SANDPIPERS and 2 SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHERS among the GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS there.

During the week single TRICOLORED and LITTLE BLUE HERONS also appeared.

A LEAST BITTERN was a surprise visitor to a City Island backyard last
Sunday.

A CATTLE EGRET found Wednesday on Long Island's north fork was relocated
near the Downs Farm Preserve off Route 25 west of Cutchogue on Thursday but
not reported today.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continued this week in Central Park's north
end, at Cunningham Park in Queens and at the Long Pond Greenbelt in Sag
Harbor.

A VESPER SPARROW found Monday in Central Park's north end was followed by a
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW present yesterday and today at Sparrow Rock.

At Hempstead Lake State Park a male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, first spotted
last Sunday along the southwestern shore of Hempstead Lake, was still being
seen there yesterday. This area is across the road and usually a little
south of parking field 1. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues to sing near
the entrance to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River. Among the
warblers being observed during this past week were such arrivals as
OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, WORM-EATING, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATED
GREEN.

Other arrivals have featured YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW, ORCHARD
and BALTIMORE ORIOLES and SCARLET TANAGER.

Decent numbers of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS moved by local hawkwatches Wednesday
and Thursday.

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

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[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 24 April 2020

2020-04-24 Thread Ben Cacace
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 24, 2020
* NYNY2004.24

- Birds mentioned
BROWN PELICAN+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
GLAUCOUS GULL
ICELAND GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Caspian Tern
HARLEQUIN DUCK
KING EIDER
Least Bittern
Tricolored Heron
CATTLE EGRET
Little Blue Heron
Short-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
WHIMBREL
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
VESPER SPARROW
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
Scarlet Tanager
Cliff Swallow
Yellow-throated Vireo
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Worm-eating Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Black-throated Green Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush

- 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, April 24th 2020
at 10pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN PELICAN, WHITE-FACED
IBIS, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND
GULL, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, WHIMBREL and other shorebirds, CATTLE EGRET,
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, VESPER SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLER and spring migrants.

Early for our region, but always welcome, a BROWN PELICAN was spotted
flying by Robert Moses State Park last Saturday morning.

At least one of last week's WHITE-FACED IBIS at Timber Point Golf Course in
Great River visited the marsh by the East Marina a few times last weekend
with one of the few small flocks of Glossy Ibis moving around that area.
Though a WHITE-FACED was not reported there after Sunday among the other
unusual birds during the week were an immature BLACK-HEADED GULL, 2
WHIMBREL and 5 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS present there today. Three additional
WHIMBREL were noted on Fire Island east of Smith Point County Park last
Sunday.

At Orient Point an immature male KING EIDER joined the female there at
least to Thursday and 4 or more HARLEQUIN DUCKS remain as well with an
ICELAND GULL stopping by there Thursday. A GLAUCOUS GULL visited Lemon
Creek Park on Staten Island last Saturday. An immature BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKE was spotted off Moses Park Tuesday and some regional LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS starting to gather locally included 16 at Moses Park
Tuesday. A CASPIAN TERN was seen Monday and Thursday at Mecox Bay. A decent
spring location for this species.

A nice gathering of shorebirds at Captree Island last Sunday featured
single STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and LEAST SANDPIPERS and 2 SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHERS among the GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS there.

During the week single TRICOLORED and LITTLE BLUE HERONS also appeared.

A LEAST BITTERN was a surprise visitor to a City Island backyard last
Sunday.

A CATTLE EGRET found Wednesday on Long Island's north fork was relocated
near the Downs Farm Preserve off Route 25 west of Cutchogue on Thursday but
not reported today.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continued this week in Central Park's north
end, at Cunningham Park in Queens and at the Long Pond Greenbelt in Sag
Harbor.

A VESPER SPARROW found Monday in Central Park's north end was followed by a
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW present yesterday and today at Sparrow Rock.

At Hempstead Lake State Park a male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, first spotted
last Sunday along the southwestern shore of Hempstead Lake, was still being
seen there yesterday. This area is across the road and usually a little
south of parking field 1. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues to sing near
the entrance to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River. Among the
warblers being observed during this past week were such arrivals as
OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, WORM-EATING, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATED
GREEN.

Other arrivals have featured YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW, ORCHARD
and BALTIMORE ORIOLES and SCARLET TANAGER.

Decent numbers of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS moved by local hawkwatches Wednesday
and Thursday.

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

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NYSbirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm