- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sep. 6, 2019 * NYNY1909.06
- Birds mentioned LEACH'S STORM-PETREL+ WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+ BROWN BOOBY+ BAIRD'S SANDPIPER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Cory's Shearwater Wilson's Storm-Petrel Northern Gannet Blue-winged Teal CATTLE EGRET AMERICAN AVOCET Short-billed Dowitcher LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Stilt Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Western Sandpiper MARBLED GODWIT Greater Yellowlegs BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Whimbrel AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Common Nighthawk Yellow-bellied Flycatcher DICKCISSEL PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Worm-eating Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Hooded Warbler - 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, September 6th 2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN BOOBY, WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, MARBLED GODWIT, LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, CATTLE EGRET, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and DICKCISSEL. But first some terribly sad news. Today we lost a wonderful friend. Rich Kelly has finally succumbed to the cancer he had been fighting for awhile now. An excellent all round naturalist and a great field companion. Rich's extensive knowledge was equally matched by his clever sense of humor and we will miss him dearly. Continuing the recent trend of shore based sightings last Monday morning during a seawatch an adult BROWN BOOBY was seen moving east off Robert Moses State Park field 2 and was carefully differentiated from the several immature NORTHERN GANNETS also going by. On a fishing boat last Tuesday visiting Block Canyon on the eastern edge of New York pelagic waters reported one WHITE-FACED, 2 LEACH'S and 24 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 3 CORY'S and 5 GREAT SHEARWATERS and a PARASITIC JAEGER. From onshore last Monday a WILSON'S STORM-PETREL was reported off Rockaway Beach and a GREAT SHEARWATER was seen in Long Island Sound off Cedar Beach in Mount Sinai. Among the shorebirds an AMERICAN AVOCET continued at Mecox Bay at least to Wednesday while the first local BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER appeared last Friday at Rockaway Beach in Edgemere. Somewhat behind schedule this year an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visited Heckscher State Park last weekend and another flew over Hillview reservoir in Yonkers Wednesday. Another nice visitor to Heckscher was a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER frequenting the puddles at field 7 from Saturday to Wednesday and Sunday the puddles included our 5 regular peeps side-by-side including single WESTERN and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS. A WHIMBREL also visited Heckscher Sunday and at least 4 MARBLED GODWITS were still at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes on Wednesday. Last Sunday LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were found at Santapogue Creek off Venetian Boulevard in West Babylon with at least 4 very faded adults present there with dozens of GREATER YELLOWLEGS and a few juvenile SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS. A visit to the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday produced multiples of WESTERN SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS but the conditions were very difficult due to the much too high water level this keeping the overall shorebird numbers to well below desired levels. Please express your disapproval of the East Pond's management to Gateway personnel. A CASPIAN TERN and numbers of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and GREEN-WINGED TEAL were also present. Other shorebirds of note today featured a lingering STILT SANDPIPER at Miller Field on Staten Island, a PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Brooklyn's Plumb Beach and 5 WESTERN SANDPIPERS at Nickerson Beach. Twenty-six LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted at Robert Moses State Park today. A CATTLE EGRET was at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center last Saturday. COMMON NIGHTHAWK numbers have been peaking recently when evening conditions have been suitable. Among the passerines a good find was a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER in Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery on Monday while the day before produced at Jones Beach West End a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and a DICKCISSEL. Unexpected was a DICKCISSEL visiting Great Gull Island Thursday. Among the slowly increasing number of warblers were a MOURNING at the Salt Marsh Nature Center Saturday and such species as WORM-EATING, BLACKPOLL and HOODED. Flycatchers recently have included various Empidonax species to be identified with care this time of year but certainly featuring some YELLOW-BELLIED among them. 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 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
