-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug. 03, 2018 * NYNY1808.03
- Birds Mentioned BROWN BOOBY+ ANHINGA+ ROSEATE SPOONBILL+ BRIDLED TERN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) King Eider Common Eider Cory’s Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater MANX SHEARWATER Wilson’s Storm-Petrel BROWN PELICAN Whimbrel MARBLED GODWIT Stilt Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher WILSON'S PHALAROPE Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler SUMMER TANAGER BLUE GROSBEAK Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 3, 2018 at 9 pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN BOOBY, BRIDLED TERN, BROWN PELICAN, MANX SHEARWATER and other pelagics, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, MARBLED GODWIT and other shorebirds, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, and extralimital ROSEATE SPOONBILL and ANHINGA. First for the extralimitals - a ROSEATE SPOONBILL, spending most of its time in the New Jersey section of the Wallkill River NWR at its Liberty Loop section off Oil City Road southwest of Pine Island in Orange County, has ventured into the New York side a few times recently, both early in the morning and later in the afternoon. An ANHINGA, first found at Morningside Park in Fallsburg, Sullivan County on July 23rd, was seen again there for half an hour last Sunday morning - does it still continue in that area? An interesting week for pelagics included a report of an adult BROWN BOOBY passing a boat 10 miles off Fire Island last Monday morning; other seabirds noted included 45 CORY’S, 250 GREAT, 15 SOOTY and 2 MANX SHEARWATERS and 115 WILSON STORM-PETRELS. Last Sunday a boat party estimated about 1,800 SHEARWATERS off Great Gull Island, mostly CORY’S and GREAT plus a few SOOTY and MANX SHEARWATERS and 4 PARASITIC JAEGERS. But the highlight at Great Gull was a BRIDLED TERN appearing there today, this the third consecutive year this species has visited the island. The above pelagic species have also been seen from the island during the week. >From shore, 130 CORY’S and 5 GREAT SHEARWATERS were noted off Mecox Sunday, and a report from Camp Hero in Montauk Wednesday noted 27 CORY’S, 4 GREAT and 2 MANX SHEARWATERS. Another decent week for BROWN PELICANS included 5 at Moriches Inlet and 4 off Staten Island last Sunday, 1 off Robert Moses State Park at least to Tuesday, and 1 at Old Inlet west of Smith Point Park yesterday. Shorebird season too is here. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the East Pond, having to deal with recent rains, has produced some STILT and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS as well as a flyby WHIMBREL and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Tuesday. The southeast corner of the West Pond has also been quite productive, though with poorer viewing availability. A WILSON’S PHALAROPE was spotted in this corner last Saturday and stayed at least to Monday, and a few STILT and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS have joined other species there, including a WHIMBREL Sunday. Single WHIMBREL have also been at Plumb Beach last weekend and at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye yesterday and today. Last Saturday a MARBLED GODWIT flew by Breezy Point, where 3 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were also present. Single GULL-BILLED TERNS were noted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday and Plumb Beach Tuesday. The two drake KING EIDERS, now in full eclipse plumage, were still on the east side of Shinnecock Inlet with 15 COMMON EIDERS on Tuesday. Five RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS seen in 2 different sections of Connetquot River State Park on Tuesday indicate successful nesting of 2 pairs there this season – some great news! Sightings of SUMMER TANAGER in Northwest Harbor indicated possible breeding there, and nesting BLUE GROSBEAKS continue around the Calverton Grasslands at the old Grumman Airport. Recent land bird migrants have included CLIFF and BANK SWALLOWS, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, and a few regionally nesting WARBLERS, including NORTHERN and LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES, WORM-EATING, BLUE-WINGED and YELLOW WARBLERS and NORTHERN PARULA. To phone in reports, on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734 4126 or call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a message. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
