Prospect Park today right off the main lawn and rather close to the transecting road I had a FOS Nashville Warbler calling.
Jonathan Perez On Saturday, May 1, 2010, Ben Cacace <bcac...@gmail.com> wrote: > - RBA > * New York > * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County > * Apr. 30, 2010 > * NYNY1004.30 > > - Birds mentioned > > WHITE-FACED IBIS+ > > (+ Details requested by NYSARC) > > Blue-winged Teal > Black Vulture > Spotted Sandpiper > Solitary Sandpiper > Semipalmated Sandpiper > Least Sandpiper > Pectoral Sandpiper > Gull-billed Tern > Caspian Tern > Common Tern > Razorbill > Great Crested Flycatcher > Eastern Kingbird > Yellow-throated Vireo > Warbling Vireo > Red-eyed Vireo > Veery > Wood Thrush > Blue-winged Warbler > ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER > Nashville Warbler > Northern Parula > Yellow Warbler > Magnolia Warbler > Black-throated Blue Warbler > Black-throated Green Warbler > Blackburnian Warbler > Prairie Warbler > Cerulean Warbler > Black-and-white Warbler > American Redstart > PROTHONOTARY WARBLER > Worm-eating Warbler > Ovenbird > Northern Waterthrush > Louisiana Waterthrush > Common Yellowthroat > Hooded Warbler > Lincoln's Sparrow > Rose-breasted Grosbeak > Bobolink > Boat-tailed Grackle > Orchard Oriole > Baltimore Oriole > > - 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, April 30th 2010 > at 8pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHITE-FACED IBIS, PROTHONOTARY > WARBLER and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and an influx of Spring migrants. > > A WHITE-FACED IBIS was found Monday morning at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge > appearing with Glossy Ibis in the marsh south of the West Pond and a little > east of the Osprey platform. The ibis was seen again Tuesday and Wednesday in > roughly the same location but it can be rather difficult to locate depending > on how many ibis are present and how deeply they are foraging into the > channels in the marsh. On Friday a BLACK VULTURE was seen flying over Jamaica > Bay but there was no sign of the White-faced Ibis. > > In Central Park a male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER appeared Monday along the south > side of Turtle Pond and was still at the same location at least to Thursday > but we have not heard any further definitive reports from today. > > Interestingly, 2 more spring ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were reported last > Saturday, 1 at the north end of Central Park and the other in Forest Park > Queens. These were followed by what was probably the same lingering > ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in Prospect Park near Terrace Bridge on Thursday. > > Otherwise, during the week, things progressed perhaps more slowly than > desired due in large part to an uncooperative weather system. > > Among the interesting arrivals through Thursday were such warblers as > BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW WARBLER, > BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, PRAIRIE WARBLER, > BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT > and AMERICAN REDSTART. One or two WORM-EATING WARBLERS were also noted and > non-warblers included 4 BOBOLINKS in Prospect Park on Tuesday. GREAT CRESTED > FLYCATCHER, RED-EYED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK on > Wednesday and both BALTIMORE ORIOLE, ORCHARD ORIOLE and WOOD THRUSH Thursday > and 1 or 2 EASTERN KINGBIRDS have also appeared. > > The system finally turned somewhat Thursday night and Friday produced the > first real influx of passerines into the city parks as both numbers and > variety increased. The warbler total for the week rose to over 20 with > MAGNOLIA WARBLER and BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER arriving. HOODED WARBLERS were seen > Friday in Central Park and in Riverside Park on northern Manhattan and a > CERULEAN WARBLER was reported from Prospect Park while YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, > VEERY and LINCOLN'S SPARROWS were also encountered. > > On Staten Island a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was noted at Willowbrook Park and > late LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES were still occurring at various sites. > > SOLITARY SANDPIPER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER visited Turtle Pond in Central Park > and decent numbers of birds were noted as well in Forest Park and Alley Pond > Park. > > In the Jones Beach area a GULL-BILLED TERN was spotted today sitting on the > barge adjacent to the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station and 3 > BLUE-WINGED TEAL were still on the pond off Bay Parkway just west of Jones > Beach field 10 last Sunday. Seven COMMON TERNS were off Robert Moses State > Park this morning. > > Farther east on Long Island last Saturday single LEAST SANDPIPER and > SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS joined a CASPIAN TERN on the flats at Mecox. > > A seawatch Sunday off Main Beach in East Hampton still produced 16 RAZORBILLS > and up to 7 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS were on Wainscot Pond last weekend. > > Another CASPIAN TERN was at Pike's Beach in Westhampton Dunes Saturday. > > Unusual for Westchester County, a male BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE was singing, if > you can call it that, in the marsh at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye on > Thursday. > > To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or on > weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483. > > This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the > National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling. > > - 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
