[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 3 September 2010
- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sep. 3, 2010 * NYNY1009.03 - Birds mentioned AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Common Eider Little Blue Heron AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER AMERICAN AVOCET WHIMBREL MARBLED GODWIT BAIRD'S SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER WILSON'S PHALAROPE GLAUCOUS GULL Caspian Tern Parasitic Jaeger Common Nighthawk Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch Veery Tennessee Warbler Cape May Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Vesper Sparrow Purple Finch - 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 nysa...@nybirds.org. 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, September 3rd 2010 at 11:45pm. The highlights of today's tape are AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, AMERICAN AVOCET, WHIMBREL, MARBLED GODWIT, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and GLAUCOUS GULL. The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still present through Thursday at the East Pond at Jamaica Bay. AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were reported last week with 2 birds seen at the sod fields on Osborne Avenue and Sound Avenue in Riverhead on Thursday and Friday and a single bird was seen at Jamaica Bay at the Terrapin Trail on Thursday. The AMERICAN AVOCET was last reported at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area last Sunday. A WHIMBREL plus 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were seen at the swale area of Jones Beach West End field 2 on Wednesday. Two MARBLED GODWITS were still present at Cupsogue County Park on Sunday and the number increased to 6 on Tuesday. BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS appeared in several spots last week: 2 at the East Pond at Jamaica Bay on Tuesday, 1 at Floyd Bennett Field at the cricket area along with 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS on Tuesday, 7 at the swale area at West End Jones Beach on Tuesday, apparently 5 birds were still at this locale on Thursday and another bird was still at the fire training facility at the Northville Turnpike west of Route 105 in Riverhead on Friday. Two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were reported at Manorville in Suffolk County at Head of the Neck Road just north of Sunrise Highway and west of Route 51 on Wednesday. An additional bird appeared on Thursday and the 3 birds were still there today. Another BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was found on Sound Avenue and Osborne Avenue in Riverhead on Thursday. A single BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was at the swale area at Jones Beach on Tuesday and Thursday. A WILSON'S PHALAROPE along with another 19 species of shorebirds reported from the East Pond and West Pond at Jamaica Bay on Thursday where high water levels at the East Pond have greatly reduced the numbers of birds previously reported. The previously reported GLAUCOUS GULL was still hanging around the ferry slip at Orient Point on Monday. Thirteen species of warbler were counted last Saturday at Prospect Park highlighted by BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER and CAPE MAY WARBLERS along with an impressive number of 42 VEERYS while 12 species of warblers were encountered in Central Park on the same day highlighted by TENNESSEE WARBLER and CAPE MAY WARBLERS. Nine species of warbler including CAPE MAY WARBLER plus PURPLE FINCH, 2 CLIFF SWALLOWS, 50 BANK SWALLOWS were reported from Fire Island on Sunday. Several correspondents have reported good numbers of COMMON NIGHTHAWK (S) through the week from Manhattan to eastern Long Island and also observers are reporting good numbers of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES through the week. Other interesting reports last week included 3 COMMON EIDER at Montauk last Saturday, an immature LITTLE BLUE HERON from the unusual locale of Alley Pond Park on Tuesday, a PARASITIC JAEGER at Jones Beach West End on Tuesday, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Cupsogue County Park on Sunday, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Fire Island on Sunday, 2 VESPER SPARROWS at Floyd Bennett Field on Thursday. To call in reports please call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, messages may be left with 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
[nysbirds-l] Brroklyn Botanic Garden and Prospect Park
The Fall Birding class sponsored by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, led by Joe Giunta, met for their first walk of the season on Saturday. On a beautiful early fall - but slow birding day, we saw the following species in the Garden and Prospect Park. We particularly noted sightings of 4 Red-breasted Nuthatches in the Garden. Species Seen: Great Blue Heron Green Heron Mute Swan Canada Goose Mallard Red-tailed Hawk Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Carolina Wren Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Veery Swainson's Thrush American Robin Red-breasted Nuthatch Blue Jay European Starling Red-eyed Vireo Pine Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Cardinal Common Grackle House Finch House Sparrow Submitted by Debbie Martin -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [nysbirds-l] East End Storm Birding
To add to Hugh's post: At Montauk Point the wind was blowing strongly from the west by 7:30 a.m. While storm birds were a bust, we did have a few notables there including: A CASPIAN TERN; a WHIMBREL that flew in off the ocean and landed on the beach on the north side of the point; a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER; 4 COMMON EIDERS; and 9 BLACK TERNS. There was some land bird movement, highlighted by a flock of 15 BOBOLINKS. At the east side of the Montauk Harbor Jetties (Gin Beach) a ROSEATE TERN was with about 150 Common Terns, and a Red Bat was flying east over the water. In early afternoon, the only shorebirds on the sod fields in Manorville were 45 Black-bellied Plovers. Observers: Seth Ausubel, Brent Bomkamp, Stella Miller -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] East End Storm Birding
I went out early this morning to confirm what I already knew: the storm was a flop in terms of birds. I visited Georgica, Sagaponack and Mecox Bay in eastern Suffolk Co. The highlight was undoubtedly bumping into Shai Mitra and Pat Lindsay. The most interesting bird was a lone PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Mecox, and a SORA that had been found dead by Marilee Foster at her farm in Sagaponack. Vicki Bustamante found an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER at the Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk. As I watched the radar last night, I could see that the storm veered east. As a result the winds began from the northeast (not the east that had been predicted) and never got higher than 25mph at Montauk (highest sustained winds were in the teens overnight). The storm was so anemic that it actually enlarged the beaches along the south shore. Better luck next time. Hugh Hugh McGuinness The Ross School 18 Goodfriend Drive East Hampton, NY 11937 hmcguinn...@ross.org -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cupsogue Beach, Westhampton Dunes, L.I., Sept 4th
Hello All,Out on the Cupsogue flats this morning the Marbled Godwits,[8 birds], were still in residence. Rich Kaskan, Bob Gunnerson and I also had a passing Glossy Ibis, Merlin and Northern Harrier. A seawatch turned up no," storm tossed", specialties on the ocean side. At the Manorville Sod field earlier we found just 50 or so Black Bellied Plover. Good September Birding, Carl Starace -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cupsogue Beach, Westhampton Dunes, L.I., Sept 4th
Hello All,Out on the Cupsogue flats this morning the Marbled Godwits,[8 birds], were still in residence. Rich Kaskan, Bob Gunnerson and I also had a passing Glossy Ibis, Merlin and Northern Harrier. A seawatch turned up no, storm tossed, specialties on the ocean side. At the Manorville Sod field earlier we found just 50 or so Black Bellied Plover. Good September Birding, Carl Starace -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] East End Storm Birding
I went out early this morning to confirm what I already knew: the storm was a flop in terms of birds. I visited Georgica, Sagaponack and Mecox Bay in eastern Suffolk Co. The highlight was undoubtedly bumping into Shai Mitra and Pat Lindsay. The most interesting bird was a lone PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Mecox, and a SORA that had been found dead by Marilee Foster at her farm in Sagaponack. Vicki Bustamante found an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER at the Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk. As I watched the radar last night, I could see that the storm veered east. As a result the winds began from the northeast (not the east that had been predicted) and never got higher than 25mph at Montauk (highest sustained winds were in the teens overnight). The storm was so anemic that it actually enlarged the beaches along the south shore. Better luck next time. Hugh Hugh McGuinness The Ross School 18 Goodfriend Drive East Hampton, NY 11937 hmcguinn...@ross.org -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [nysbirds-l] East End Storm Birding
To add to Hugh's post: At Montauk Point the wind was blowing strongly from the west by 7:30 a.m. While storm birds were a bust, we did have a few notables there including: A CASPIAN TERN; a WHIMBREL that flew in off the ocean and landed on the beach on the north side of the point; a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER; 4 COMMON EIDERS; and 9 BLACK TERNS. There was some land bird movement, highlighted by a flock of 15 BOBOLINKS. At the east side of the Montauk Harbor Jetties (Gin Beach) a ROSEATE TERN was with about 150 Common Terns, and a Red Bat was flying east over the water. In early afternoon, the only shorebirds on the sod fields in Manorville were 45 Black-bellied Plovers. Observers: Seth Ausubel, Brent Bomkamp, Stella Miller -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 3 September 2010
- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sep. 3, 2010 * NYNY1009.03 - Birds mentioned AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Common Eider Little Blue Heron AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER AMERICAN AVOCET WHIMBREL MARBLED GODWIT BAIRD'S SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER WILSON'S PHALAROPE GLAUCOUS GULL Caspian Tern Parasitic Jaeger Common Nighthawk Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch Veery Tennessee Warbler Cape May Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Vesper Sparrow Purple Finch - 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 nysa...@nybirds.org. 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, September 3rd 2010 at 11:45pm. The highlights of today's tape are AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, AMERICAN AVOCET, WHIMBREL, MARBLED GODWIT, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and GLAUCOUS GULL. The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still present through Thursday at the East Pond at Jamaica Bay. AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were reported last week with 2 birds seen at the sod fields on Osborne Avenue and Sound Avenue in Riverhead on Thursday and Friday and a single bird was seen at Jamaica Bay at the Terrapin Trail on Thursday. The AMERICAN AVOCET was last reported at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area last Sunday. A WHIMBREL plus 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were seen at the swale area of Jones Beach West End field 2 on Wednesday. Two MARBLED GODWITS were still present at Cupsogue County Park on Sunday and the number increased to 6 on Tuesday. BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS appeared in several spots last week: 2 at the East Pond at Jamaica Bay on Tuesday, 1 at Floyd Bennett Field at the cricket area along with 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS on Tuesday, 7 at the swale area at West End Jones Beach on Tuesday, apparently 5 birds were still at this locale on Thursday and another bird was still at the fire training facility at the Northville Turnpike west of Route 105 in Riverhead on Friday. Two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were reported at Manorville in Suffolk County at Head of the Neck Road just north of Sunrise Highway and west of Route 51 on Wednesday. An additional bird appeared on Thursday and the 3 birds were still there today. Another BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was found on Sound Avenue and Osborne Avenue in Riverhead on Thursday. A single BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was at the swale area at Jones Beach on Tuesday and Thursday. A WILSON'S PHALAROPE along with another 19 species of shorebirds reported from the East Pond and West Pond at Jamaica Bay on Thursday where high water levels at the East Pond have greatly reduced the numbers of birds previously reported. The previously reported GLAUCOUS GULL was still hanging around the ferry slip at Orient Point on Monday. Thirteen species of warbler were counted last Saturday at Prospect Park highlighted by BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER and CAPE MAY WARBLERS along with an impressive number of 42 VEERYS while 12 species of warblers were encountered in Central Park on the same day highlighted by TENNESSEE WARBLER and CAPE MAY WARBLERS. Nine species of warbler including CAPE MAY WARBLER plus PURPLE FINCH, 2 CLIFF SWALLOWS, 50 BANK SWALLOWS were reported from Fire Island on Sunday. Several correspondents have reported good numbers of COMMON NIGHTHAWK (S) through the week from Manhattan to eastern Long Island and also observers are reporting good numbers of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES through the week. Other interesting reports last week included 3 COMMON EIDER at Montauk last Saturday, an immature LITTLE BLUE HERON from the unusual locale of Alley Pond Park on Tuesday, a PARASITIC JAEGER at Jones Beach West End on Tuesday, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Cupsogue County Park on Sunday, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Fire Island on Sunday, 2 VESPER SPARROWS at Floyd Bennett Field on Thursday. To call in reports please call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, messages may be left with 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
