-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * July 8, 2022 * NYNY2207.08
- Birds Mentioned SOUTH POLAR SKUA+ BROWN BOOBY+ NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) STILT SANDPIPER Dunlin Least Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Lesser Yellowlegs Bonaparte’s Gull BLACK-HEADED GULL Lesser Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern Great Shearwater Northern Gannet BROWN PELICAN Red-headed Woodpecker Acadian Flycatcher Grasshopper Sparrow SUMMER TANAGER BLUE GROSBEAK 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 [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, July 8, 2022 at 10:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are SOUTH POLAR SKUA, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, BROWN BOOBY, BROWN PELICAN, BLACK-HEADED GULL, arriving shorebirds including STILT SANDPIPER and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more. Certainly the surprise sighting of the week was a bird photographed very early last Saturday morning off Robert Moses State Park Field 2 and identified as a SOUTH POLAR SKUA, a species very rarely seen from shore. The time of year and frequency of summer reports in the North Atlantic would certainly weigh heavily in favor of this species, though other Skuas are not outside the realm of possibility. Currently much more reliable, the adult NEOTROPIC CORMORANT continues up in the Newburgh area of Orange County. The bird has a couple of times this week ventured across the Hudson River to the Beacon side, perching on pilings near the Ferry Terminal, but it was also seen numerous times on the pilings off the private Global Oil Terminal off River Road south of the Ferry Terminal on the Newburgh side. A couple of BROWN BOOBY sightings took place along the Eastern Long Island South Shore this week, with one photographed Tuesday sitting off Smith Point County Park in Shirley followed by one reported Thursday flying east by Cupsogue Beach County Park. This is a species to look for along the oceanfront, but note that immature NORTHERN GANNETS are also offshore now. It was a good week for BROWN PELICAN sightings, starting last Sunday with singles spotted off Riis Park, Robert Moses State Park and Old Inlet on Fire Island; then Wednesday produced two off Nickerson Beach and one at Smith Point County Park, but it kept getting better, with today finding three off Fort Tilden followed by a flock of ten sitting briefly off Fire Island Pines in central Fire Island before continuing farther east. There will be more. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge has begun to attract decent numbers of southbound shorebirds, the East Pond already hosting a good variety. Yesterday well over 300 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 300 LEAST SANDPIPERS and 100 LESSER YELLOWLEGS were estimated, and more unusual were a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Thursday and a couple of STILT SANDPIPERS through today. Also continuing on the East Pond have been the immature BLACK-HEADED GULL plus a young BONAPARTE’S GULL, both often near the Raunt, and four or more GULL-BILLED TERNS have been counted along the Pond. A DUNLIN was also out in the Bay Monday. A couple of GREAT SHEARWATERS were spotted off Riis Park Tuesday, and some LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS remaining along the South Shore featured 22 counted at Breezy Point today. Three RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville, and an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was singing at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum County Park in Great River last Tuesday. Both the male SUMMER TANAGER and several BLUE GROSBEAKS remain around the Grasslands at the former Grumman airport in Calverton, joining several GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS and other interesting birds to be found there. 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/ --
