NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 11/8/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 8, 2024
* NYNY2411.08

– Birds mentioned
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
WOOD STORK+
SAGE THRASHER+
BULLOCK’S ORIOLE+
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Long-billed Dowitcher
White-rumped Sandpiper
Black-legged Kittiwake
Caspian Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Rough-legged Hawk
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER
WESTERN KINGBIRD
RED CROSSBILL
Pine Siskin
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD

– Transcript

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If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or
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       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, November 8th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SAGE THRASHER, BULLOCK’S
ORIOLE, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, TOWNSEND’S WARBLER, WOOD STORK, AMERICAN WHITE
PELICAN, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, EURASIAN WIGEON,
HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED CROSSBILL, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED
SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD and more.

This morning out at Robert Moses State Park a SAGE THRASHER was found at
field 5 and though it disappeared for a while it was refound at dusk along
the northern edge of the parking lot a little east of the toll booths.
There’s nothing to determine whether this is the same individual as the
earlier Fire Island record at Smith Point County Park on October 22nd.

The male BULLOCK’S ORIOLE at Stillwell Woods Park in Woodbury was last
reported on Wednesday but it still may be worth checking the fruiting trees
east of the ballfields.

A female type RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was spotted last Saturday visiting feeders
out in Eastport, Suffolk County and has continued there through today. The
homeowner is very graciously permitting birders to view the feeders located
behind their house. The address is 353 Old Country Road. Visitors should
park on Union Street just east of the house and walk back to 353 entering
the yard carefully near shrubs marked by streamers to view the feeders.

The TOWNSEND’S WARBLER in Bay Ridge Brooklyn has not been reported since
Tuesday. To check the site look around 85th Street just west of 3rd Avenue.

The Staten Island WOOD STORK previously visiting North Mount Loretto State
Forest was last reported apparently back on October 29th but it appears a
different immature was photographed today at Blue Heron Park in Annadale
seen on Blue Heron Pond west of Barkley Avenue.

An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN spotted flying over the William Floyd Estate in
Mastic Beach last Saturday was a different individual from the one
frequenting the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge still reported
there today. Other Jamaica Bay birds this week included at least one drake
EURASIAN WIGEON usually seen on the East Pond but also reported from the
West Pond Thursday plus low shorebird numbers still including LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER along with CASPIAN TERN there on
Wednesday and a report of LAPLAND LONGSPUR Monday.

An ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was reported from the Sparrow Bowl in Prospect
Park last Saturday with a VESPER SPARROW also in the park that day.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD has spent the week at Jones Beach West End usually seen
near the inner turnaround and another was at Bush Terminal Piers Park in
Brooklyn yesterday and today.

Two HARLEQUIN DUCKS were back at Orient Point County Park as of Tuesday.

A good showing of shearwaters still lingering around Montauk Point last
weekend include a decent number of CORY’S with SCOPOLI’S also possibly
mixed in. Good luck with that. Similar numbers of GREAT and at least one
SOOTY and a couple of MANX. BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was also seen and 58
PINE SISKINS were counted Saturday.

Six RED CROSSBILLS were reported Thursday over the Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch
in Bedford with a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK there Sunday.

A LARK SPARROW visited the Fire Island hawkwatch site at Robert Moses State
Park last weekend and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were at Fort Tilden Saturday
and Prospect Park Sunday among others.

Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were noted in Brooklyn this week including one in
Prospect today and a male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was spotted flying west
over Jones Beach West End with Red-wingeds Thursday morning.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 11/1/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 1, 2024
* NYNY2411.01

– Birds mentioned
WOOD STORK+
BULLOCK’S ORIOLE+
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EURASIAN WIGEON
Red-necked Grebe
Long-billed Dowitcher
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Golden Eagle
Red-headed Woodpecker
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER
Cedar Waxwing
Purple Finch
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Orange-crowned Warbler
DICKCISSEL

– 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, November 1st
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BULLOCK’S ORIOLE, WOOD
STORK, TOWNSEND’S WARBLER, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN,
EURASIAN WIGEON, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and
more.

On Wednesday an adult male BULLOCK’S ORIOLE was found at Stillwell Woods
Park in Woodbury, Nassau County and it was still frequenting that location
today. The Oriole has occasionally been seen sitting on top of various
leafless trees sometimes with a female Baltimore Oriole but more often
better views have been had as the BULLOCK’S feeds among the berry rich
trees that are also attracting numerous other birds including some PURPLE
FINCHES and many CEDAR WAXWINGS. Thus it can require some patience to
locate the BULLOCK’S. To reach the site from the Jericho Turnpike, Route 25
go north on South Woods Road about a mile to the park entrance on the right
and proceed towards the ballfields along the south side of the park. The
fruiting trees begin on the east side of these ballfields and a path east
through the trees crosses a bike path and leads to another overgrown field.
Check this section of trees, especially along the edges of the fields which
provide better visibility.

The Staten Island WOOD STORK was still present today at the same wetland in
North Mount Loretto State Forest. Park at the end of Cunningham Road by the
school, walk north past the gate on Cunningham and take the first path on
the right watching for the wetland on the right.

A TOWNSEND’S WARBLER was spotted Thursday in a residential section of Bay
Ridge Brooklyn and with patience was relocated there again today. The area
was along 84th Street just west of Third Avenue at one point near number
235 and later at number 264.

An apparent ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was photographed Thursday at the
Maintenance Meadow in Central Park but we have no further follow up.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still hanging
out on the East Pond today along with decreasing numbers of shorebirds that
today did include six LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Also on the East Pond today
were two or possibly three EURASIAN WIGEONS including a full drake and a
possible second male at mid-pond plus a female at the south end.

Last Monday a WESTERN CATTLE EGRET was spotted by the police station at
Jones Beach West End but soon flew off into the dunes.

In Westchester two GOLDEN EAGLES flew by the Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch in
Bedford this afternoon and a RED-NECKED GREBE appeared on Playland Lake in
Rye with various migrating ducks last Sunday.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were encountered this week in Green-wood Cemetery to
Friday, on Governors Island Monday and Tuesday, at Caumsett State Park
Wednesday and at two separate Westchester locations.

CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were reported Monday from Calvert Vaux Park and out
near the Ponquogue Bridge in Shinnecock as well as in Central Park Tuesday
to Thursday while the GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was at Fort Totten Park Saturday
and a VESPER SPARROW visited the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center
Sunday.

ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS are still being uncovered in a variety of locations
while over 16 other species of warblers also continue to drift through. A
DICKCISSEL has lingered at Fort Totten through today and another was noted
at Breezy Point Monday.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/25/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 25, 2024
* NYNY2410.25

– Birds Mentioned

PURPLE GALLINULE+
WOOD STORK+
SAGE THRASHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Caspian Tern
Cory’s/Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
American Pipit
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel’s type)
Vesper Sparrow
Orange-crowned Warbler
DICKCISSEL

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:  Gail Benson

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 25, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.  

The highlights of today’s tape are SAGE THRASHER, WOOD STORK, PURPLE GALLINULE, WESTERN KINGBIRD, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, MARBLED GODWIT, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Tuesday morning a SAGE THRASHER was spotted and photographed near the campground at Smith Point County Park in Shirley but soon disappeared; later in the afternoon it was refound nearer the main parking lot, but searches on subsequent days were unsuccessful in relocating the bird.

The immature WOOD STORK continues on Staten Island, present today in a small wetland in North Mount Loretto State Forest.  To reach the site, from Hylan Boulevard adjacent to the Mount Loretto Unique Area, take Cunningham Road north and park in a gravel lot on the left side of the road opposite the school.  Walk north on the extension of Cunningham Road past a gate and take the first path on the right.  Watch for the wetland on the right side of the path, and please approach quietly.

Last Saturday an immature PURPLE GALLINULE was found at the north end of Fort Pond in Montauk, spending much of its time on the grassy edge of Industrial Road.  It continued its precarious existence there through Monday afternoon but was not seen thereafter.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD spotted last Saturday at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue in Yaphank stayed there at least through Wednesday but has not been reported since.  It had favored the northwest corner of the field complex there, adjacent to the Long Island Expressway.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still present on the East Pond both days last weekend but not reported since, while an AMERICAN AVOCET was still being seen at the East Pond’s north end through today, with an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER also continuing there along with a variety of other shorebirds.  Two AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and a WHIMBREL were also present out in Jamaica Bay south of the West Pond last Sunday.

One or two MARBLED GODWITS were still present last weekend on the sandbars off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station, and lingering CASPIAN TERNS included two each on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond Sunday and at Mecox Inlet Tuesday.

Good numbers of SHEARWATERS off Montauk Point last Sunday were estimated at 300 GREAT, 150 CORY’S/SCOPOLI’S types and 16 MANX.

A few RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS included one in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn all week, one at Jones Beach West End Saturday to Monday, and another at Caumsett State Park Tuesday and Wednesday, with one in Westchester at Siscowit Reservoir in Pound Ridge for a while to Thursday.

With many SPARROWS now on the move, single CLAY-COLOREDS were seen today at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx and a lingering one in Prospect Park, with others during the week noted on Governors Island and at Fort Tilden plus elsewhere.  A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found Monday in Stillwell Woods Park in Woodbury, with singles also found today at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton and the Dwarf Pine Barrens Preserve in Westhampton.  A few VESPER SPARROWS were also noted during the week, and a Gambel’s type WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was photographed today at Gilgo Beach.

Among the lingering WARBLERS have been a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS, and among the DICKCISSELS on the move were birds noted yesterday at Fort Totten Park and Croton Point Park.  Recent migrants have also featured some AMERICAN PIPITS, PURPLE FINCHES and even a few PINE SISKINS.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/18/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 18, 2024
* NYNY2410.18

– Birds Mentioned

WOOD STORK+
NORTHERN WHEATEAR+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
American Bittern
GOLDEN EAGLE
Broad-winged Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
DICKCISSEL

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:  Gail Benson

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October
18, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD STORK, NORTHERN WHEATEAR,
WESTERN KINGBIRD, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER, GOLDEN EAGLE, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED
SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.

Late Saturday morning an immature WOOD STORK was found on Staten
Island, and it has continued in North Mount Loretto State Forest
through today, staying on a small wetland within the park.  To reach
this area, from Hylan Boulevard adjacent to the Mount Loretto Unique
area, take Cunningham Road north and park in a gravel lot on the left
side of the road opposite the school.  Walk north on the extension of
Cunningham Road past a gate and take the first path on the right.
Watch for the wetland on the right side of the path, and please
approach quietly.

Last week’s NORTHERN WHEATEAR at Truman’s Beach in Orient was last
reported there Saturday, trying to cope with very strong winds, but
those winds did on Monday bring a WESTERN KINGBIRD in for a brief
visit to Owl’s Head Park in Brooklyn.

The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN recently residing on the East Pond at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was last noted there on Monday, but there
is a report of the PELICAN seen on the West Pond today.  The 2
AMERICAN AVOCETS on the East Pond were present at least to Tuesday, a
day after the 2 MARBLED GODWITS were last reported there, while other
birds still visiting the East Pond this week included 2 LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHERS, up to 20 STILT and a few PECTORAL and WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPERS, and three or more CASPIAN TERNS.

 Other shorebirds featured an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER flying past Fort
Tilden Saturday and 2 more over the Chestnut Ridge hawk watch in
Bedford Tuesday,  MARBLED GODWITS increasing to 4 this week on the
Jones Beach West End flats by the Coast Guard Station, and a WHIMBREL
at Napeague Tuesday.

A collection of birds at the Mecox inlet flats on Sunday featured a
WESTERN and 38 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS plus many LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULLS and 2 CASPIAN TERNS, but also exciting were the seabirds off
Mecox last weekend, with SHEARWATER counts on the 2 days peaking with
220 GREAT and fewer CORY’S, plus 4 MANX Saturday and a SOOTY Sunday.
Also noted were 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS Saturday, 3 more Sunday, while
numbers off Montauk Point Sunday included 55 GREAT and 30 CORY’S
SHEARWATERS and 14 PARASITIC JAEGERS.

An AMERICAN BITTERN stayed around Prospect Park Lake to Wednesday.

The BROAD-WINGED HAWK season at local hawk watches was quite
disappointing this year, but this week single GOLDEN EAGLES flew by
the Chestnut Ridge watch at the Butler Sanctuary both Sunday and
Monday, with another Wednesday at the Quaker Ridge site at the
Greenwich Audubon Center, and a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was photographed
over central Staten Island Sunday.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted at several sites this week,
including birds lingering in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and at
Jones Beach West End.

A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was spotted at Robert Moses State Park Field 2
Saturday, and notable SPARROWS featured a LARK on Randall’s Island
Saturday, a few CLAY-COLOREDS, a GRASSHOPPER at Inwood Hill Park
Thursday, and at least 4 VESPERS, the latest at Brooklyn Bridge Park
today.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was reported at Hofstra University in Uniondale
Saturday, followed by 1 at Fort Tilden Sunday, and besides an
increasing number of ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, others still moving
through have included a few CONNECTICUTS plus late WORM-EATING,
MOURNING and HOODED.  Some DICKCISSELS are also still on the move,
with one at Sunken Meadow State Park today.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/11/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 11, 2024
* NYNY2410.11

– Birds mentioned
NORTHERN WHEATEAR+
LECONTE’S SPARROW+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Eurasian Wigeon
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Caspian Tern
BROWN BOOBY
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
American Bittern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Philadelphia Vireo
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

– 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, October 11th
2024* at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are NORTHERN WHEATEAR,
LECONTE’S SPARROW, BROWN BOOBY, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET,
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, MARBLED GODWIT, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and
CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, GOLDEN-WINGED and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE
GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Sunday a NORTHERN WHEATEAR was found out on the north fork at Truman’s
Beach just west of Orient. The bird was reported through today often seen
foraging near some wood piles east of the parking lot or along the beach.

A LECONTE’S SPARROW was photographed late Tuesday afternoon at Inwood Hill
Park in northern Manhattan but could not be relocated the next day.

The immature BROWN BOOBY hanging out around the Davis Park Marina on
central Fire Island has not been reported there since last Saturday and has
presumably moved on. This site is reachable by ferry from Patchogue.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN and the 2
AMERICAN AVOCETS were still present around the north end of the East Pond
on Thursday but the MARBLED GODWIT there has not been reported since last
Saturday and the AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was last noted on Tuesday. A few
CASPIAN TERNS are among the decent variety of birds continuing to frequent
the East Pond while 3 or more WHIMBREL were still present last Saturday
around the islands in Jamaica Bay south of the West Pond. A MARBLED GODWIT
has been frequenting the sandbar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach
West End since Wednesday.

Among the few reports recently of AMERICAN BITTERN was one in Prospect Park
Thursday around the lake as viewed from the peninsula.

A molting WIGEON noted on the main lake at Connetquot River State Park
since last Sunday is believed to be a WIGEON but the possibility of a
hybrid has also been mentioned.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen in Brooklyn just west of Prospect
Park on Tuesday, at the Point Lookout Wednesday and Caumsett State Park
Wednesday and Thursday.

LAPLAND LONGSPUR was photographed at Southampton last Friday the 4th and
another was reported calling as it flew by Robert Moses State Park
yesterday. LARK SPARROW visited Randall’s Island last weekend while
CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were noted during the week in Central Park and on
Staten Island Saturday, at Arverne East Nature Preserve in Queens Sunday,
at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Sunday and Monday, at Timber Point Monday
and Kissena Park Tuesday, and at Robert Moses State Park Thursday among
others. A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW continued at Marsha Johnson State Park in
Brooklyn to Saturday and one was found at Freshkills Park on Staten Island
today.

A few PHILADELPHIA VIREOS continue to move through and a YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT was found in Prospect Park Monday.

Among the warblers were 2 GOLDEN-WINGEDS still in Central Park Saturday, a
few ORANGE-CROWNEDS starting to show up, single CONNECTICUTS spotted in
Prospect Park and in Sunken Meadow State Park Sunday and other later
migrants featuring HOODED, MOURNING and BAY-BREASTED among others while
reports of a possibly lingering BLACK-THROATED GRAY at Flax Pond and a
possible TOWNSEND’S at Salt Marsh Nature Center at Marine Park need to be resolved.

A BLUE GROSBEAK was found in Far Rockaway last Saturday and a few
DICKCISSELS include 2 at Croton Point Park Tuesday, and singles at Fort
Totten Park late week and Jones Beach West End today.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/4/2024

– 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

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, 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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/27/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 27, 2024
* NYNY2409.27

– Birds Mentioned

CURLEW SANDPIPER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
SEDGE WREN
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Golden-winged Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

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:  Gail Benson

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 27, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.  

The highlights of today’s tape are CURLEW SANDPIPER, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BUFF-BREASTED and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, SEDGE WREN, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to attract an impressive variety of birds, this week topped by the immature CURLEW SANDPIPER visiting the north end of the East Pond last Saturday, where it was nicely photographed.  The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN also continued on the East Pond at least up to Wednesday, and other notable species there have included two AMERICAN AVOCETS and a MARBLED GODWIT staying to Monday, a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE stopping by last Sunday, and a lingering variety of other shorebirds, though numbers are diminishing.  A WHIMBREL was also out in Jamaica Bay south of the West Pond Sunday.

Following a report of 4 BROWN PELICANS flying over Island Park in Nassau County last Tuesday afternoon were 3 more seen distantly this morning from Plumb Beach as they moved east along the ocean coastline passed Breezy Point.

Single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were noted at Crab Meadow Beach in Fort Salonga Wednesday and Thursday and at Plumb Beach Thursday.

A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was present Tuesday at Fire Island’s Democrat Point, where other highlights included two WHIMBRELS, a MARBLED GODWIT and 67 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, the two WHIMBRELS still there Thursday. Another WHIMBREL visited Jones Beach West End today.

An UPLAND SANDPIPER was a good find in the grass at Floyd Bennett Field today.  Two HUDSONIAN GODWITS were on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park last Saturday, and a MARBLED GODWIT was spotted at Oak Beach today.

A sea watch Sunday afternoon from the bluffs at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk recorded two PARASITIC JAEGERS and one MANX, one SOOTY, 3 GREAT and 30 CORY’S SHEARWATERS. “

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER appeared at Jones Beach West End Monday, while an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER put in a latish appearance at Prospect Park yesterday.

A SEDGE WREN was photographed at Kissena Park Thursday and followed by a report of one at SUNY Purchase today.

PHILADELPHIA VIREOS have been fairly widespread recently, occurring in several regional parks.

A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW found on Governors Island on Tuesday was still present yesterday and perhaps continues there.

Among the various WARBLERS still moving through were a male GOLDEN-WINGED seen on private property Sunday in Mattituck and a decent number of CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, including since Tuesday a couple in Central Park and singles at Inwood Hill and Kissena Parks, plus one lingering in Bryant Park.

Single BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted on multiple days during the week in Kissena Park and at Jones Beach West End, with one at Middle Village Cemetery in Queens today.

A few DICKCISSELS featured one Saturday in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, one on Governors Island Tuesday, and today birds noted at Randall’s Island, Plumb Beach and Breezy Point.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/20/2024

* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 20, 2024
* NYNY2409.20

– Birds Mentioned

WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Snipe
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Western Cattle Egret
Red-headed Woodpecker
Philadelphia Vireo
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

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:  Gail Benson

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September
20, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, WHITE IBIS,
AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, LARK SPARROW,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE
GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to provide an excellent variety
of interesting birds, perhaps topped by the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
lingering on the East Pond all week, though moving around a bit.  Two
AMERICAN AVOCETS, also present all week, have been consistently at the
pond’s north end, where a MARBLED GODWIT from the previous week was
joined by a second as of Tuesday, both continuing through today.  An
immature AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visited the East Pond Tuesday and
Wednesday, and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE was reported there Saturday and
Wednesday, while other shorebirds also noted there have included
STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER, plus a WILSON’S SNIPE Sunday.  Up to 15 CASPIAN TERNS and 5
ROYAL TERNS have also been counted gathering up at the north end, and
a SORA continues to frequent the edge of a small pond at the south
end.  A WHIMBREL was noted at the West Pond Sunday and Tuesday, and
two immature WHITE IBIS were seen Monday in flight, passing over the
parking lot and then circling around the West Pond before flying off
to the southwest just after 2:00 p.m.

A single immature WHITE IBIS was seen again Monday on the pond at Cow
Meadow Park in Freeport but not reported thereafter, while the
previous Saturday a WESTERN CATTLE EGRET visited this pond.

Out at Old Inlet on Fire Island, 2 miles west along the beach from
Smith Point County Park, on Sunday were an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER plus
one MARBLED and six HUDSONIAN GODWITS, with four HUDSONIANS there on
Monday.  Also counted there Sunday were 65 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS,
while on Tuesday a LARK SPARROW was found at Smith Point County Park
itself.

Other shorebirds featured single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Great
Kills Park on Staten Island Sunday and Heckscher State Park Sunday and
Monday, a MARBLED GODWIT and two WHIMBREL at Democrat Point on Fire
Island Saturday followed by a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER there Tuesday,
single WHIMBREL at Great Kills Monday and Breezy Point Tuesday, and a
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER at Blydenburgh Park in Smithtown Sunday and Monday.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were found Saturday on Governor’s Island
and at Croton Point Park.

Various PHILADELPHIA VIREOS included multiples in Central Park last
Saturday and several elsewhere, including in Prospect Park and
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn as well as at Sunken Meadow State Park
Tuesday.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT has continued in Bryant Park in Manhattan,
joined by the longer lingering MOURNING WARBLER as well as a
CONNECTICUT WARBLER on Wednesday.  Other CONNECTICUTS occurring in
several of the major parks also included one in the Floyd Bennett
Field Community Garden last Sunday and one at Brooklyn Bridge Park
today.

More surprising, though, were single PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS
photographed Monday in Green-Wood Cemetery and Tuesday at Brooklyn
Bridge Park. Warblers in general, though, continue in decent variety
but somewhat low numbers.

A BLUE GROSBEAK was spotted in Kissena Park in Queens today, and among
a few DICKCISSELS was one at Pelham Bay Park Tuesday.

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.

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/13/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 13, 2024
* NYNY2409.13

– Birds mentioned
PURPLE GALLINULE+
SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATER+
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Least Bittern
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Philadelphia Vireo
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

– 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, September 13th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are PURPLE GALLINULE,
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, WHITE IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED
GODWITS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS,
WILSON’S PHALAROPE, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
CONNECTICUT WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Late Sunday afternoon an immature PURPLE GALLINULE was found disoriented in
a grassy strip along 154th Street in Whitestone Queens and taken in for
rehabilitation. Similarly that morning a LEAST BITTERN landed on an upper
floor terrace on East 52nd Street in Manhattan and subsequently flushed
into a nearby window. While such birds have been lingering, MOURNING
WARBLER and YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in Bryant Park in Manhattan have also
presumably been compromised by flying into alien habitat and suffering the
consequences. Still more obviously needs to be done to provide more
protection for our declining bird populations.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge prime conditions on the East Pond continue
to attract excellent variety including the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN present
all week usually just north of the Raunt. The AMERICAN AVOCET staying at
the north end of the pond attracted a second one last Sunday and both have
continued through today [while 4] WILSON’S PHALAROPES have also appeared on
the pond. Other shorebirds present include a couple of MARBLED GODWITS last
weekend down to one today, a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER last Monday and many other
expected species. Other birds featured at least 2 SORAS, one seen regularly
at the south end and still up to 6 or so CASPIAN TERNS plus a few ROYAL
TERNS usually at the north end.

At least 3 immature WHITE IBIS were still visiting Cow Meadow Park in
Freeport up to last Monday and the one at Flax Pond in Old Field was seen
again last Sunday.

Other shorebirds include an AMERICAN AVOCET noted Saturday at Flushing
Creek in Queens, one HUDSONIAN and 2 MARBLED GODWITS at Cupsogue Beach
County Park today and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER at Fire Island’s Democrat
Point Wednesday and Thursday. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and 3 HUDSONIAN
GODWITS were out at Old Inlet on Fire Island on Wednesday along with a
GULL-BILLED TERN and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was reported from Lazy Point at
Napeague last weekend.

A few SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATERS were reported again last Sunday from the Cresli
whale trip aboard the Viking Star out of Montauk.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted in Central Park Monday and
Tuesday, at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn Monday and at Lenoir Preserve
in Yonkers Wednesday.

[…] PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were reported while LARK SPARROWS were spotted
Sunday at Randall’s Island, Monday and Tuesday in Green-wood Cemetery and
Tuesday at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center while a CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW visited the Fire Island hawkwatch at field 5 Monday.

Single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS occurred in Prospect Park Sunday and at SUNY
Purchase starting Saturday. Some CONNECTICUT WARBLERS during the week
included birds in Central, Prospect and Kissena Parks, Green-wood Cemetery
and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a good variety of warbler species
continues while numbers have been far from overwhelming.

Single BLUE GROSBEAKS were on Monday in Green-wood Cemetery and out at Fire
Island in field 5 and DICKCISSELS, mostly noted during early morning
flights, were reported from Manhattan, Brooklyn and Pelham Bay with 2
passing over Moses Park Sunday.

BROAD-WINGED HAWKS have begun appearing in decent numbers at regional
hawkwatches with over 1,600 over the Greenwich Audubon Center on Tuesday.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/6/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 6, 2024
* NYNY2409.06

– Birds mentioned
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+
SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATER+
WHITE IBIS+
LARK BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Eastern Whip-poor-will
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN BOOBY
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
DICKCISSEL

– 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, September 6th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are LARK BUNTING, BROWN
BOOBY, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, LONG-TAILED JAEGER, WHITE IBIS,
AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED, CONNECTICUT and other warblers,
DICKCISSEL and much more.

An interesting but puzzling bird spotted midday Monday at Shirley Chisholm
State Park was subsequently identified as a LARK BUNTING and fortunately
continued along the trail there through much of Tuesday morning before
disappearing. A second LARK BUNTING in similar brownish plumage was also
spotted Tuesday morning along the median adjacent to field 2 at Robert
Moses State Park but that bird vanished rather quickly and neither has been
seen subsequently.

Today a seawatch off Shinnecock Inlet produced an adult BROWN BOOBY moving
east not far offshore. Two PARASITIC JAEGERS were also seen off nearby
Tiana Beach and spotted further east off Mecox Bay were one SOOTY and 9
CORY’S SHEARWATERS plus 22 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN showed up on the
East Pond last Saturday and has continued there through today, usually
lingering with many Mute Swans just north of Raunt. Shorebirds on the East
Pond this week have included an AMERICAN AVOCET all week at the north end,
2 MARBLED GODWITS today, a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER Monday and small numbers of
PECTORAL, STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and a few LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHERS. A BLACK TERN spent Monday regularly circling the pond with up
to 10 CASPIAN TERNS staying mostly at the north end. An AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER was out in Jamaica Bay Monday.

A boat trip into Long Island Sound last Saturday produced a crisp juvenile
LONG-TAILED JAEGER about one and a half miles off Eaton’s Neck with some
great photos obtained. The four immature WHITE IBIS that have been visiting
Cow Meadow Park in Freeport were still present there as of Wednesday either
roosting on the pond by the parking lot or out feeding in the surrounding
marsh. Another immature spotted about a week ago was seen again today on
Flax Pond in Old Field northwest of Port Jefferson.

Two BROWN PELICANS appeared off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn last Saturday and
the next day 8 were seen off Breezy Point Tip moving out to sea.

Old Inlet on Fire Island, 2 miles west of Smith Point County Park, has
featured […] 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS through Thursday with 2 MARBLED GODWITS
also stopping by Sunday, with 3 HUDSONIANS visiting Mecox Bay Monday.

The Cresli whale watching trip on the Viking Star out of Montauk have been
productive for seabirds recently. The trip last Sunday produced a WHIMBREL,
6 PARASITIC JAEGERS, 15 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, 50 plus CORY’S and
SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATERS along with 12 GREAT, one SOOTY and 7 MANX
SHEARWATERS. With the AOS recently recognizing the split of SCOPOLI’S
SHEARWATER from CORY’S and NYSARC now revealing the implications of this on
the New York list it’s time to sharpen one’s skills to recognize the subtle
differences between the two. Not necessarily a simple task.

An EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was in Central Park Monday and an immature
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER in Inwood Hill Park Sunday.

Notable landbirds recently have featured OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, at least 5 YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS and various warblers
including reports in Central Park of GOLDEN-WINGED and CONNECTICUT and
DICKCISSELS over at Jamaica Bay, Coney Island Creek and out in the Bronx.

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