- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug. 14, 2009 * NYNY0908.14
- Birds mentioned WHITE-FACED IBIS+ CORY'S SHEARWATER Wilson's Storm-Petrel AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Solitary Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs WHIMBREL Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Royal Tern Blue-winged Warbler Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid: Blue-winged x Golden-winged) Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada 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 [email protected]. 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, August 14th 2009 at 6pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHITE-FACED IBIS, CORY'S SHEARWATER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, WHIMBREL and PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. An interesting report from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge involved a WHITE-FACED IBIS occurring on the East Pond around 2pm on Thursday afternoon. The bird eventually flying off to the west with other ibis. We have no particulars on the plumage or location of the sighting. There was a fine turnout for the Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival Sunday with participants treated to a nice variety of shorebirds on the East Pond including about a dozen WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 15 plus WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS and over 20 STILT SANDPIPERS as well as the first arriving juvenile LEAST SANDPIPERS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS. A single GULL-BILLED TERN was also noted at the north end as their numbers seemed to have dropped off quickly. On Monday a PECTORAL SANDPIPER and a CASPIAN TERN appeared on the East Pond with an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER joining the growing number of Black-bellied Plovers at the north end of the pond on Wednesday. Perhaps the same AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was seen again on the flats at the north end of the East Pond today. Out east a group of 9 WHIMBREL was noted Saturday at Cedar Beach County Park in Southold and 4 were spotted Sunday near the Ponquogue Bridge at Shinnecock. Along Dune Road west of Shinnecock Inlet Sunday 4 BLACK TERNS were present off Triton Lane and farther west at Pike's Beach in Westhampton Dunes 46 ROYAL TERNS were counted on the sand spit. At least 5 BLACK TERNS and a few ROSEATE TERNS also occurred there. An early seawatch off Cupsogue County Park Sunday morning produced about 20 CORY'S SHEARWATERS and 6 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS. Four plus SOLITARY SANDPIPERS were at a duck farm in Aquebogue on Sunday. A brief seawatch off Robert Moses State Park field 2 Thursday morning yielded 2 CORY'S SHEARWATERS and 2 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS plus single ROSEATE TERN and BLACK TERN. WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were seen at Floyd Bennett Field and Plumb Beach in Brooklyn Wednesday. Southbound land birds, some of which began moving in July, have been slowly increasing in number and variety recently as witnessed by 13 species of warblers reported from Central Park Wednesday. These generally involve the more southerly nesting species and the Central Park migrants featured BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PRAIRIE WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, WORM-EATING WARBLER, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, HOODED WARBLER, CANADA WARBLER and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT along with more numerous YELLOW WARBLER and AMERICAN REDSTART. Two interesting warblers found today were an immature PROTHONOTARY WARBLER spotted this morning around Lily Pond at Prospect Park and a hybrid LAWRENCE'S WARBLER seen near the blind at the south garden of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. - End transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
