- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sep 13, 2013 * NYNY1309.13
- Birds Mentioned: AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER+ PURPLE GALLINULE+ BRIDLED TERN+ LONG-TAILED JAEGER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Wilson's Storm-Petrel Bald Eagle Virginia Rail American Golden-Plover Piping Plover Whimbrel Marbled Godwit BAIRD'S SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Wilson's Phalarope CASPIAN TERN Black Tern Royal Tern Parasitic Jaeger Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Barn Owl RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Philadelphia Vireo CONNECTICUT WARBLER Mourning Warbler CLAY-COLORED SPARROW 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 [email protected] . If electronic submission is not possible, hard copy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hard copy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 ~ Transcript ~ Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070 To report sightings call: Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays) Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126 (Long Island) Compilers: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Karen Fung [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 13th, at 7:00pm. The highlights of today's tape are PURPLE GALLINULE, AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER, LONG-TAILED JAEGER, BRIDLED TERN, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, CASPIAN TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW. An immature PURPLE GALLINULE was photographed at Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers (Westchester County), sometime last weekend. Though apparently first seen on Wednesday, September 4th, word of the bird did not begin to circulate until Sunday. Reportedly seen again on Monday, we have no positive reports from birders looking for the gallinule since then. The bird had been frequenting the southeastern corner of the south pond at Tibbetts Brook. Please let us know if it is relocated there. A private fishing trip last Friday and Saturday to the west side of Block Canyon about 80 miles south of Montauk on Saturday encountered 9 AUDUBON'S SHEARWATERS, 5 immature LONG-TAILED JAEGERS, and a BRIDLED TERN, and the day before had photographed two Scopoli's race of CORY'S SHEARWATER. The AUDUBON'S were in cooler waters than usual, and also seen were 6 CORY'S and 20 GREAT SHEARWATERS, 390 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, and a PARASITIC JAEGER. Out on eastern Long Island, the sod field shorebirds have featured 2 to 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS north of Riverhead, on a field east of the Roanoke Vineyards, south of Sound Avenue, or over on the east side of Osborne Avenue just south of Sound Avenue. The Roanoke Vineyard is 0.4 mile east of the Roanoke Avenue intersection with Sound Avenue. Also there have been 60 or more AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS visiting these fields, but these have not been terribly reliable. Another BUFF-BREASTED was spotted yesterday off Eastport Manor Road in Eastport, this field just north of Route 51. Smaller flocks of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were noted yesterday along Edwards Avenue and also west of Route 105, these in the same general area south of Sound Avenue. At Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes, including adjacent Pike's Beach, last Saturday there were still 6 MARBLED GODWITS, and 15 PIPING PLOVERS were gathered off the Pike's observation platform. A CASPIAN TERN also visited Cupsogue Saturday, and decent numbers of ROYAL TERNS were still present. Other shorebirds featured 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS at Sagg Pond Thursday and Friday, and WHIMBREL at Mecox Thursday and Tobay Tuesday. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge a WILSON'S PHALAROPE and MARBLED GODWIT were on the East Pond Wednesday and Thursday. The BARN OWL continues in the box at Big John's Pond as viewed from the bird blind. An immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER has been in Central Park for most of the week, and a VIRGINIA RAIL has been seen sporadically through today in the western portion of the Loch at the park's north end. Otherwise in Central and other parks, it was not the most dynamic of weeks, with bird numbers somewhat low, though with a reasonable variety present. PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were reported in Prospect Park Sunday and Tuesday, and a CONNECTICUT WARBLER was there till Monday, but their most unusual visitor may have been a BLACK TERN on Prospect Park Lake on Tuesday. Other local highlights in the city parks were: in Brooklyn a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER in Owls Head Park on Wednesday; in Manhattan a CONNECTICUT WARBLER in Inwood Hill Park last weekend and briefly in Bryant Park this morning; and in Queens, MOURNING WARBLER in Alley Pond Park Saturday, and single BLUE GROSBEAKS at Alley Saturday and Kissena Park Tuesday. Both BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS have been present lately, along with other more expected migrants. Out east, 4 BLUE GROSBEAKS and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW were along Hulse Landing Road in Calverton on Saturday. With the wind change today, hopefully more migrants and a decent hawk flight will occur tomorrow. Two BALD EAGLES were noted over Central Park today. To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or during the day except Sunday 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. 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