[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 1 September 2023
-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sept. 1, 2023 * NYNY2309.01 - Birds Mentioned COMMON RINGED PLOVER+ GREAT SKUA+ NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ Mississippi Kite (slightly extralimital)+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) AMERICAN AVOCET American Golden-Plover Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Baird’s Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Western Sandpiper Parasitic Jaeger LONG-TAILED JAEGER Lesser Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern BROWN PELICAN Philadelphia Vireo Grasshopper Sparrow LARK SPARROW YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER CONNECTICUT WARBLER BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL |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 nysarc44nybirdsorg 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: Gail Benson Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 1, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today's tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, GREAT SKUA and LONG-TAILED JAEGER, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED, PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKISSEL and more. The COMMON RINGED PLOVER found on August 19th out at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay was last seen there around mid-day last Monday. A nice variety of Shorebirds there that day also featured one HUDSONIAN and five MARBLED GODWITS, 7 WHIMBREL, and 1 each of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, while among the TERNS there were 3 CASPIAN and around 60 ROYAL. This site is reached by walking west about 2 miles along the beach from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley. The Staten Island NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was seen again Tuesday along Lemon Creek as viewed from the bridge on Hylan Boulevard, and the one along the Newburgh waterfront in Orange County is still present. Two interesting pelagic birds last weekend began with a Skua photographed early last Saturday moving east off Smith Point County Park, an analysis of the photos pointing to this bird as an immature GREAT SKUA. Then on Sunday morning a Jaeger photographed from a boat off Eaton's Neck in Long Island Sound proved to be a dark immature LONG-TAILED JAEGER - two great finds. On Wednesday 7 BROWN PELICANS were lounging on the shore at Jones Beach West End until flushed by a truck, and 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS were spotted offshore. The 2 lingering AMERICAN AVOCETS were still visiting Mecox Bay near the inlet yesterday, and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT along with 3 WESTERN SANDPIPERS and 3 CASPIAN TERNS were in the Field 7 puddles at Heckscher State Park last Wednesday. Other BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS included one at Jones Beach West End last Saturday and one on the Route 51 Fields in Eastport Wednesday. At Breezy Point Sunday there were 4 GULL-BILLED TERNS and 18 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. Slightly extralimital, a MISSISSIPPI KITE passed over the Quaker Ridge hawk watch in northwestern Greenwich Thursday, heading for Westchester. Last Sunday a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and a LARK SPARROW was found at Watch Hill on Fire Island, with another LARK SPARROW appearing on the landfill at Croton Point Park on Wednesday. Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were banded at the JFK Sanctuary at Tobay last Saturday, and another appeared at Conference House Park on Staten Island Sunday. Among the rarer fall WARBLERS, a GOLDEN-WINGED visited Central Park Wednesday and Thursday, and another was found in Prospect Park today, while early CONNECTICUTS were reported yesterday in Central Park and at Strack Pond in Forest Park, Queens. Strack Pond also produced a PROTHONOTARY Tuesday, with another in Manhattan's Bryant Park today, while the one in Green-Wood Cemetery was last seen last Saturday. At least three BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted last Saturday at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue, and a DICKCISSEL was noted in Broad Channel yesterday. A couple of PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were also reported this week. 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/NYSbirdsSubsc
[nysbirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler, Bryant Park, Manhattan NYC - Fri., 9/1
Friday, Sept. 1st - Bryant Park, midtown Manhattan in N.Y. City - A brightly plumaged PROTHONOTARY Warbler was photographed within this park, by D. Ricci, Friday mid-afternoon, with the location at the north end of that park (which is at West 42 Street there) and nearer the eastern part when seen. If going to look there, it will be worth checking near the fountain, which is closer to Sixth Ave, and that park’s west side, off West 41st Street, as most Prothonotarys can be attracted by any water. Good birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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 and rest of Manhattan, NYC - 8/31 - 29+ warbler spp. + other migrants
Central Park, and all the rest of Manhattan (in N.Y. City) - Thursday, August 31st: A strong migration with many hundreds-of-thousands of birds flying past Manhattan for Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, and some which did put down for essential rest and of course feeding, while vastly more of those migrants simply passed on thru, continuing south and south-by-southwest towards wintering-grounds. As is expected here, a great diversity of warblers were among the diversity of migrants, and some rarer (or less-commonly-seen) warblers were among these. At Central Park, while a bright Golden-winged Warbler was again present and seen by multiple observers very early on, near the same location as seen on Wed., later moving very-slightly within same part of Central Park, a skulking (as is typical) Connecticut Warbler was *overlooked* by almost all, which came in to an area a short way east of where the ongoing Golden-winged was re-found. It is possible that that Connecticut Warbler may linger on in the area. Others of that species were being found in this city and region, this day and even a bit earlier, on the early-ish side for the species. A few warblers that in most previous years would have been seen as on early-side, but *this* summer have mostly already occurred in southbound-migration here, showed on this very good migration-day - examples including Palm (of the yellow form) and Myrtle Warblers, each of these also having been seen previously. At the same time, there are still some birds which were summering in Manhattan, which continued on and were being noted recently (again) and are not *new" fall-season arrivals, for example of the *very few* Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers that stayed in parts of lower Manhattan, or the far-greater numbers of White-throated Sparrows in a number of Manhattan locations, or the Hermit Thrush (one or more) in Central Park seen over recent days, weeks - and all summer. Good migration and a diversity of drop-in visiting birds were found from the northern tip of Manhattan (Inwood Hill Park and other adjacent parks and green-spaces) all the way south across the island, and in particular in some mid and lower Manhattan green-spaces, very small parks included. At some small parks up to 8, and even ten species of warblers were found, and in the larger parks, far more overall. With so many birders in Central Park and some out seeking migrants from first-light (and some also at and into dusk and moonrise times there) it is not surprising that the diversity seen appears so high as reported out of that park... while there are also many other parks that have most or even all of same species passing-thru. Inwood Hill Park as one example, the challenge at that latter park being that some of the woods is highest in all of the county with what are even known to some as old-growth forest by urban standards of this region. In addition some of the early-birds at the northern end of Manhattan may have moved along by later on in the day, as did so many migrants more-generally on a good day of movement regionally. Species listed below designated with *CP* were seen within Central Park, on Thursday, the last day of August. Many of those species were also found elsewhere in Manhattan on the day. Canada Goose (*CP*) Mute Swan (viewed only from along East River) Wood Duck (*CP*) Northern Shoveler (*CP*) Gadwall (*CP*) Mallard (*CP*) American Black Duck Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid types - (*CP*) Green-winged Teal (*CP*) Rock Pigeon (*CP*) Mourning Dove (*CP*) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (*CP*) Common Nighthawk (*CP*) Chimney Swift (*CP*) Ruby-throated Hummingbird (*CP* - multiple and including some fly-by individuals, also seen in other locations in Manhattan, as previously) Killdeer Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper (*CP*) Solitary Sandpiper (*CP*) Laughing Gull (*CP*) Ring-billed Gull (*CP*) [American] Herring Gull (*CP*) Great Black-backed Gull (*CP*) Common Tern (lower Manhattan, N.Y. Harbor area / Hudson River in particular) Double-crested Cormorant (*CP*) Great Blue Heron (*CP*) Great Egret (*CP*) Snowy Egret (*CP*) Green Heron (*CP*) Black-crowned Night-Heron (*CP*) Turkey Vulture Osprey (*CP* - and multiple other fly-bys, a great migration of this species today region-wide) Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk (*CP*) Bald Eagle (*CP* and other locations, fly-bys, a nice modest movement of some of these today) Red-tailed Hawk (*CP*) Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl (usual recent-resident owls of Manhattan) Belted Kingfisher (*CP*) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (*summered-over* individuals in at least 2 known sites in Manhattan) Red-bellied Woodpecker (*CP*) Downy Woodpecker (*CP*) Hairy Woodpecker (*CP*) Yellow-shafted Flicker (*CP*) American Kestrel (*CP*) Merlin (a few migrants of this species which has increased so greatly as a northeastern-U.S. breeder over recent decades) Peregrine Falcon (*CP*) Monk Parakeet Oliv
