– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 4, 2024
* NYNY2410.04
– Birds mentioned
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
BROWN BOOBY
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
SEDGE WREN
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
Blue-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
– Transcript
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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, October 4th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN BOOBY, AMERICAN
WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, AMERICAN AVOCET, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE,
BLACK-HEADED GULL, WESTERN KINGBIRD, SEDGE WREN, BLACK-THROATED GRAY,
PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS,
BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
A good week for unusual birds began last Saturday when an immature BROWN
BOOBY was spotted in the Davis Park Marina on central Fire Island. The
BOOBY has continued roosting in and feeding around the marina all week
through today. Regular ferries for the short ride over to Davis Park are
available from Patchogue.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still
residing on the East Pond at least to Wednesday and other highlights there
featured 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS to Thursday with one there today, a MARBLED
GODWIT all week and occasional AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and a RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE Wednesday and Thursday. Other local shorebirds featured a
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on the Hudson River in Bay Ridge Brooklyn Wednesday,
an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER seen occasionally to Thursday at Randall’s
Island, 2 MARBLED GODWITS at Jones Beach West End Thursday and a WHIMBREL
there last Saturday. The West End also provided a BLACK-HEADED GULL all
week off the Coast Guard Station and a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE along with 19
CORY’S, 3 GREAT and 2 MANX SHEARWATERS and 22 NORTHERN GANNETS were tallied
off Robert Moses State Park Sunday.
Another seawatch Tuesday from Davis Park on Fire Island noted decent
numbers of CORY’S SHEARWATERS with a few of the recently split SCOPOLI’S
SHEARWATER also believed to be present along with 3 GREAT SHEARWATERS.
On Thursday 8 BROWN PELICANS were spotted from Bay Point Marina in Blue
Point flying east by Fire Island.
A few RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were also noted this week.
A WESTERN KINGBIRD was photographed Monday morning at Floyd Bennett Field
before it quickly moved off to the southwest and a SEDGE WREN was spotted
briefly Sunday afternoon at Prospect Point out in Sands Point in Nassau.
A nice selection of warblers was topped by a BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER
photographed this morning at Flax Pond in Old Field north of Stony Brook.
Also unexpected were a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER spotted at Clove Lakes Park on
Staten Island Monday and a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER present Tuesday through
Thursday at Corlears Hook Park near Pier 42 in lower Manhattan. Other
notables included BLUE-WINGED WARBLER in Central Park’s north end Thursday
and today plus 2 more at the Wildflower Meadow today these after one at the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden last Saturday which was followed there by a
CERULEAN WARBLER Sunday. The first of this Fall’s ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS
have begun to arrive and a few CONNECTICUTS continue to be seen.
Single LARK SPARROWS were seen in Edgemere Queens last weekend and at Hot
Dog Beach off Dune Road today while CLAY-COLORED SPARROW lingered on
Governors Island to Sunday with others at Pelham Bay Park Sunday, Inwood
Hill Park Monday and Freshkills Park Thursday and today. A GRASSHOPPER
SPARROW found Wednesday at Marsha P. Johnson State Park in Brooklyn was
still there today.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT visited Mount Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island
Monday and another was a window strike casualty in Melville Thursday.
Multiple DICKCISSELS were noted earlier this week at Governors and
Randall’s Islands with one also at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn
yesterday while single BLUE GROSBEAKS visited Jones Beach West End to
Tuesday and the Planting Fields Arboretum Wednesday.
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.
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