[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Thurs., 10/7 - Dickcissel, Nelson's Sparrows, warbler diversity, 2 Cuckoo spp. & more
N.Y. County, including Manhattan, Randall’s & Governors Island[s] mainly sightings from Thursday, October 7th - a few also for Oct. 8th - The perhaps 1st-fall 'female-plumaged’ (rather drab colors) Dickcissel (found & first-reported by L. LaBella, on 10/6) at Central Park’s north-end compost area, was still being seen, by multiple observers, again on Thursday, 10/7. There was also a report noting the Mourning Warbler (likely 1st-year female) at *that compost area* still being found on 10/7 (& late for that species in the region). A Marsh Wren had also been found (J. Wooten) on 10/6 at that same area, that last however in the adjacent (fenced, but viewable from outside the south fence) NYC-Parks nursery & wood-chip storage area, on the s. side of the compost area. We don’t seem to have a later report of any Blue Grosbeak from that or other areas where recently found, but that latter species could be lingering at any of the areas where seen in recent days or the past week+. Another Nelson’s Sparrow for N.Y. County, at Inwood Hill Park’s marsh-regeneration project area; found Thurs., 10/7 (by A. Barry) and with multiple observers later. Multiple birders also got to see multiple Nelson’s Sparrows on Randall’s Island again on 10/7. At least some of those latter were deliniated as the subspecific form ‘subvirgata’ (A. Burke, & others as well), while many reports left the subspecies out of their reporting. A ‘late' Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was reported & confirmed in eBird (L. Weir) from Randall’s Island on Thurs., 10/7. An Eastern Meadowlark was seen again Thursday at Randall’s Island, and nicely photo’d. too (M.B. Kooper). That latter species might be sought as well on Governors Isalnd in N.Y. County, with good patches of habitat there for the species & for other grassland-loving migrants or visitors. Note that both Saltmarsh, and Nelson’s Sparrows were again being found at Randall’s Island, as well as multiple Yellow-crowned Night-Herons there, and of course many many other birds there and all around N.Y. County for FRIDAY, Oct. 8th. And ‘separately', continuing to be found are Red-breasted Nuthatches, in generally modest numbers (but still more could be arriving). Black-billed Cuckoo was among the sightings from Central Park in a walk there (for a non-profit org., led by J. Giunta) on Thursday; also seen & photo’d. by others. Yellow-billed Cuckoos also have continued to be found in at least several locations in the county. A White-eyed Vireo was again seen (& photo’d) at Central Park as of 10/7, and a N. Waterthrush also was seen where that last W.-e. Vireo was, near The Pond in that park’s s.-e. quadrant; an earlier but recent W.-e. Vireo had been in the Ramble area of Central Park, to at least this past Sunday. A bright adult-plumaged male Mourning Warbler was still being found at the World Trade Center memorial area in lower Manhattan to 10/7, Thursday, with close photos again obtained by some & again, with many (!!) observers to see the late-lingering & uncommon-in-that-plumage bird (for Oct. in N.Y.) as well as other migrants there & in nearby lower Manhattan locations. (It’s possible that the male Mourning is still in that same area, with multiple birders still seeking migrants around that space, and many other species still being seen to FRIDAY there, October 8th.) Among the many warbler species still lately around the county, also running late are Blackburnian Warbler, with a further confirmed report of that species from Inwood Hill Park. While many, many observers were aware of Bay-breasted Warbler lingering at Central Park to at least Wed. 10/6, one of that species also was photo’d. (J. Keane) at Randall’s Island on Thursday, 10/7. Blackpoll Warblers were also still around in fair numbers with multiple locations have more than just one or two of them. Chestnut-sided Warblers were also still to be found in some several locations, these included individal birds seen during walks led (for non-profit org’s) by Joe Giunta in Central Park (& also indepenent observers there) , & by Gabriel Willow, the latter at Carl Schurz Park on Manhattan’s east side, also a fine photo (C. Quinn) from the U.N. grounds (United Nations H.Q., partly non-public access), and all of those birds from 10/7; that’s still just a partial list (as with many of these migrants noted within this report). An indication as to how numerous Savannah Sparrows have been in a variety of areas of N.Y. County lately, one of that species was found (L. Goggin) in the modest-sized urban garden “El Jardin del Paraiso” in lower Manhattan. (On a personal note, I greatly enjoy seeing birds & reports of them from urban gardens, a project I was once part of, planting and maintaining in parts of N.Y. City, on a volunteer-basis, and a side-benefit then as now, to find wildlife in those same gardens.) Note that in many instances, the urban / community gardens many not be open
[nysbirds-l] SEDGE WREN found by David Ellison - Nyquist Harcourt Wildlife Sanctuary
Hi all, A new birder(his first migration!), David Ellison, found a SEDGE WREN, this morning at Nyquist-Harcourt Wildlife Sanctuary in New Paltz, today, Oct 8 at 11am. Here is a link to photos he took, along with map location of where he saw the bird denoted by a red "x". https://photos.app.goo.gl/H66mSBdGkhm4HcCx8 -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Wild Turkey, Cedarhurst, Nassau County
Apologies to all for this late post, but on my way to catch the LIRR in Cedarhurst, NY yesterday morning around 8:20 AM, I encountered a female wild turkey darting in and out of traffic on Washington Ave. about a half block from the train station. Wild turkeys aren't so unusual, but the location certainly was. This is southwest Nassau County, Long Island, just SE of JFK airport on the border with Queens. I am curious as to whether turkeys have been seen on the South Shore - I've been here since 1997 and never seen one here, let alone wandering the sidewalks and lawns of suburbia. Unfortunately I couldn't stay to make sure the bird was ok but I have cell phone pics to record the encounter. Cindy WodinskyCedarhurst, NY -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC: Fri. Oct. 8, 2021: White-eyed Vireo, White-crowned Sparrow, Indigo Bunting, 8 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park, NYC Friday October 8, 2021 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: White-eyed Vireo, White-crowned Sparrow, Indigo Bunting, Eight Species of Wood Warblers. Canada Goose - 21 Wood Duck - 1 male Harlem Meer Northern Shoveler - 8 Gadwall - 8 Mallard - 2 dozen American Black Duck - female at the Pool Ruddy Duck - 12 Mourning Dove - 6-8 Chimney Swift - around 20 over the Harelm Meer American Coot - 1 Reservoir (Kate Wodell) Herring Gull - around 60 Ring-billed Gull - 7 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 island in Harlem Meer Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4-5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5-6 Downy Woodpecker - female North Woods Northern Flicker - 1 Lily Ponds, 1 heard-only American Kestrel - 2 Great Hill Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Great Hill Eastern Phoebe - 1 Loch White-eyed Vireo - 1 Loch Blue Jay - around 6 American Crow - 3 flyovers (seen together) Brown Creeper - reported by Chris - California & the UK House Wren - Wildflower Meadow Winter Wren - west side of the Pool Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 14 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 at the Pool Swainson's Thrush - 3 Hermit Thrush - 1 Loch American Robin - not many Gray Catbird - 8-10 Northern Mockingbird - Harlem Meer Cedar Waxwing - 8 House Finch - 3 American Goldfinch - 3-4 Wildflower Meadow Field Sparrow - 1 Compost Area (David Barrett) Dark-eyed Junco - 4 (2 Nutters Battery, 2 Harlem Meer) White-crowned Sparrow - 1 hatch-year Compost Area White-throated Sparrow - 20-25 Song Sparrow - 10-12 Swamp Sparrow - 3 Common Grackle - 1 Harlem Meer Island Northern Waterthrush - 1 west end of the Pool (David Barrett) Black-and-white Warbler - male at the Pool (Chris) Common Yellowthroat - 7 Northern Parula - 1 Green Bench (David Barret) Magnolia Warbler - 1 Loch Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male west side of the Pool (Peter Haskel) Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Plant Nursery Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 Northern Cardinal - 2 Indigo Bunting - 1 Compost Area Deb Allen -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Great White Heron still at Marshlands
As of this evening at dusk the Great White Heron was still there with the other herons and Laughing Gulls south of Marie's Pt. Gave great looks in the fading light. Nice to have seen them in CT, NY, and FL:-) Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 8 October 2021
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 8, 2021
* NYNY2110.08
- Birds mentioned
BROWN BOOBY+
VARIED THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
KING EIDER
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Baird's Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
GREAT BLUE HERON (white morph "Great White Heron")
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
- 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 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
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, October 8th
2021* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are VARIED THRUSH, BROWN
BOOBY, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON, KING
EIDER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, MARBLED GODWIT, LARK
SPARROW, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
Certainly a surprise was the appearance of a VARIED THRUSH last Tuesday at
the Sands Point Preserve. A bird decently photographed before it
disappeared during a day when the park was closed.
A seawatch off Robert Moses State Park Tuesday morning produced an immature
BROWN BOOBY moving west followed by a PARASITIC JAEGER doing the same.
Twenty-two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were also counted on the beach at
Moses that morning.
An elusive YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD usually seen mostly with cowbirds and
starlings around Nickerson Beach including last Sunday, Monday and
yesterday. It was also reported Tuesday near the Point Lookout Town Park at
the end of Lido Boulevard thus expanding the search range.
A white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON, also referred to as GREAT WHITE HERON,
remains in Rye at Marshlands Conservancy through today. At high tide the
heron has been roosting by an island in the middle section of the marsh
moving south 200 yards at lower tides to feed in the cove off Murray's Neck.
The KING EIDER was still around Midland Beach on Staten Island Monday and
another immature male was off Napeague State Park Tuesday and Wednesday.
Immature AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were seen at Plumb Beach Wednesday, at
Floyd Bennett Field Wednesday through today and also at Heckscher State
Park today.
A couple of MARBLED GODWITS have been visiting the bar off the Coast Guard
Station at Jones Beach West End at least to yesterday while an HUDSONIAN
GODWIT was seen again on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last
Saturday. Continuing WHIMBREL have included 5 on Fire Island Wednesday and
up to 6 at Smith Point County Park in Shirley and 3 still at Fort Tilden
yesterday and a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was spotted at Plumb Beach last Sunday.
Some CASPIAN TERNS peaked Thursday with 5 at Mecox and 6 in Gardiners Bay
in East Hampton.
A LARK SPARROW visited Plumb Beach Monday and another was seen again today
near the Fire Island hawkwatch. Among the few CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were
singles in Prospect Park and Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn last Saturday,
at Plumb Beach Tuesday and at Jones Beach West End today.
Both GRASSHOPPER and VESPER SPARROWS were found at Randall's Island last
Saturday and on Governors Island Sunday with another GRASSHOPPER at Pelham
Bay Park Sunday. YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and BLUE GROSBEAK were also on
Governors Island Saturday with other BLUE GROSBEAKS at Central Park's north
end Wednesday and in Orient today. DICKCISSELS include singles at
Marshlands Conservancy and in Mattituck yesterday and at Central Park's
north end to today along with Friday birds also at Governors Island and
Heckscher State Park.
Warblers this week have featured ORANGE-CROWNED, CONNECTICUT, MOURNING,
HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED and several other species.
To phone in reports, call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.
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/nysbirds-l@cor
