-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * July 1, 2016 * NYNY1607.01
- Birds Mentioned WHITE-FACED IBIS+ RUFF+ SANDWICH TERN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Sooty Shearwater Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Glossy Ibis Black Vulture Black-bellied Plover Piping Plover Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs WHIMBREL Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Dunlin Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher GULL-BILLED TERN Roseate Tern Royal Tern BARN OWL Acadian Flycatcher Red-breasted Nuthatch Grasshopper 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 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, Tony Lauro 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 1, 2016 at 6:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are RUFF, SANDWICH TERN, WHITE-FACED IBIS, WHIMBREL, GULL-BILLED TERN, BARN OWL and BLUE GROSBEAK. Adding to the impressive list of birds already present at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is a RUFF in fairly decent plumage first spotted on the East Pond last Saturday morning. This cinnamon-and-black-colored individual Saturday left the pond during the falling mid-day tide and was only seen again there just briefly early Sunday morning before finally reappearing at the south end again Thursday morning. Already by Thursday it had lost some of its breeding plumage. It did visit the same location early Friday and then again flew off, seeming to be a very skittish individual. With the water level on the East Pond looking good for this beginning stage of the fall shorebird season, among the migrant species already appearing there have been SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER and LEAST SANDPIPER. The WHITE-FACED IBIS also continues its fairly regular visits to the south end of the East Pond, usually with some GLOSSY IBIS along the eastern edge in the vicinity of a dead tree that hangs out over the pond shoreline. This Ibis’s plumage is fading, which will make it more difficult to spot from a distance. One or two GULL-BILLED TERNS at the Bay are usually seen around the marsh south of the former West Pond, but one also occasionally visits the East Pond. A TRICOLORED HERON and a few LITTLE BLUES have been feeding on the mid-tide flats at the former West Pond, and an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER continues to sing in the dense area just a little south of Big John’s Pond. And of course the young BARN OWLS can still be seen in their box across Big John’s Pond from the bird blind, but they may be fledging very soon. Out on the shorebird flats north of the parking lot at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes an adult SANDWICH TERN last Saturday joined a ROYAL, two ROSEATES and other expected TERNS until finally departing on the rising tide. Shorebirds there featured two dozen BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and PIPING PLOVER, and one each of GREATER YELLOWLEGS, RED KNOT, RUDDY TURNSTONE and DUNLIN, one LEAST SANDPIPER and two SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, and nine SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, as well as two “Western” WILLETS. An early sea watch at Cupsogue only produced a single SOOTY SHEARWATER and a brief glimpse of a WILSON’S STORM-PETREL. A WHIMBREL visited the bar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End Tuesday, Wednesday and today. Interesting for late June, a BLACK VULTURE appeared over Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn last Sunday. The grasslands at the former Grumman airport in Calverton continue to provide a nice variety of breeding birds, including BLUE GROSBEAK in the area around the intersection of Line Road and Grumman Boulevard, and the number of GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS there is quite impressive. This is the time to look for floaters in our area, these unseasonal visitors usually representing unmated birds or disrupted breeders moving around or even early dispersal of regional nesters. A small incursion of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES recently and a few scattered non-breeding warblers are examples of this, but be on the lookout for rather bizarre records like the Williamson’s Sapsucker banded on Fire Island on June 22, 1996 - good luck! 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. Thank you for calling. - End transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
