[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 8 May 2015
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 8, 2015
* NYNY1505.08
- Birds mentioned
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Semipalmated Plover
Upland Sandpiper
Red Knot
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Gull-billed Tern
CASPIAN TERN
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Acadian Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Worm-eating Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
SUMMER TANAGER
Grasshopper Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
BLUE GROSBEAK
Bobolink
- 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
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, May 8th 2015 at
9pm. The highlights of today's tape are Spring migrants with 35 species of
warblers including PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE
GROSBEAK, SUMMER TANAGER, CASPIAN TERN and RED-HEADED WOODPECKER.
A decent week for migrants. Today's report of an early MOURNING WARBLER in
Central Park's Ramble brings the warbler species total in the city parks
this week to 34. Among the rarer species a PROTHONOTARY was present in
Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island Monday and Tuesday and another appeared
at the Lullwater in Prospect Park Wednesday. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was
spotted in Central Park Tuesday and also near Saint John's Pond in Cold
Spring early in the week with nesting birds continuing at Connetquot River
State Park. Several KENTUCKY WARBLERS showed up starting last Sunday with
one at Clove Lakes Park. A KENTUCKY was found in Riverside Park in northern
Manhattan Monday while one in Prospect Park Tuesday was still present
Thursday but tough to see. Wednesday also brought reports of KENTUCKY at
Hempstead Lake State Park and Drier-Offerman in Brooklyn. YELLOW-BREASTED
CHATS were found Tuesday in Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan and at
Jones Beach West End with Wednesday adding one in Prospect Park. A CERULEAN
WARBLER visited Central Park Monday. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was reported
from Prospect Park last Saturday and today.
Among the other more notable warblers have been a few newly arriving
TENNESSEE, BAY-BREASTED, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKPOLL, WILSON'S and CANADA and
such favorites as WORM-EATING, CAPE MAY, BLACKBURNIAN and HOODED all in
generally low numbers. And a 35th species of warbler, GOLDEN-WINGED, is
already on territory north of the city.
A nice number of SUMMER TANAGERS and BLUE GROSBEAKS appeared during the
week. The at least 5 SUMMER TANAGERS included a singing adult male at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday, one at Inwood Hill Park Sunday and
Tuesday and 2 in Central Park Tuesday with one still there Thursday when
another also visited Hempstead Lake State Park. Six BLUE GROSBEAKS featured
3, sometimes together, along the roadway at Robert Moses State Park to the
water tower up to Tuesday and singles at Heckscher State Park last
Saturday, one reported from Roosevelt Island Sunday and one in Central
Park's Ramble on Thursday.
Four CASPIAN TERNS were still on the Mecox flats last Saturday and a single
GULL-BILLED TERN continued to visit the bar off the Coast Guard Station at
Jones Beach West End with a second spotted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
off the former West Pond on Wednesday. Other notables at the bay recently
have included TRICOLORED and LITTLE BLUE HERONS and RED KNOT. Among the
shorebirds, now increasing in numbers generally, were an UPLAND SANDPIPER
seen at Croton Point Park in Westchester County last Sunday and arriving
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.
A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER visited the quickly drying waterhole in Forest Park
Monday to Wednesday and another was spotted at Jones Beach West End on
Tuesday.
The first YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO was noted Tuesday followed by a BLACK-BILLED
CUCKOO by Thursday and a COMMON NIGHTHAWK appeared over Staten Island
Wednesday. An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 8 May 2015
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 8, 2015
* NYNY1505.08
- Birds mentioned
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Semipalmated Plover
Upland Sandpiper
Red Knot
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Gull-billed Tern
CASPIAN TERN
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Acadian Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Worm-eating Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
SUMMER TANAGER
Grasshopper Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
BLUE GROSBEAK
Bobolink
- 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
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, May 8th 2015 at
9pm. The highlights of today's tape are Spring migrants with 35 species of
warblers including PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE
GROSBEAK, SUMMER TANAGER, CASPIAN TERN and RED-HEADED WOODPECKER.
A decent week for migrants. Today's report of an early MOURNING WARBLER in
Central Park's Ramble brings the warbler species total in the city parks
this week to 34. Among the rarer species a PROTHONOTARY was present in
Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island Monday and Tuesday and another appeared
at the Lullwater in Prospect Park Wednesday. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was
spotted in Central Park Tuesday and also near Saint John's Pond in Cold
Spring early in the week with nesting birds continuing at Connetquot River
State Park. Several KENTUCKY WARBLERS showed up starting last Sunday with
one at Clove Lakes Park. A KENTUCKY was found in Riverside Park in northern
Manhattan Monday while one in Prospect Park Tuesday was still present
Thursday but tough to see. Wednesday also brought reports of KENTUCKY at
Hempstead Lake State Park and Drier-Offerman in Brooklyn. YELLOW-BREASTED
CHATS were found Tuesday in Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan and at
Jones Beach West End with Wednesday adding one in Prospect Park. A CERULEAN
WARBLER visited Central Park Monday. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was reported
from Prospect Park last Saturday and today.
Among the other more notable warblers have been a few newly arriving
TENNESSEE, BAY-BREASTED, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKPOLL, WILSON'S and CANADA and
such favorites as WORM-EATING, CAPE MAY, BLACKBURNIAN and HOODED all in
generally low numbers. And a 35th species of warbler, GOLDEN-WINGED, is
already on territory north of the city.
A nice number of SUMMER TANAGERS and BLUE GROSBEAKS appeared during the
week. The at least 5 SUMMER TANAGERS included a singing adult male at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday, one at Inwood Hill Park Sunday and
Tuesday and 2 in Central Park Tuesday with one still there Thursday when
another also visited Hempstead Lake State Park. Six BLUE GROSBEAKS featured
3, sometimes together, along the roadway at Robert Moses State Park to the
water tower up to Tuesday and singles at Heckscher State Park last
Saturday, one reported from Roosevelt Island Sunday and one in Central
Park's Ramble on Thursday.
Four CASPIAN TERNS were still on the Mecox flats last Saturday and a single
GULL-BILLED TERN continued to visit the bar off the Coast Guard Station at
Jones Beach West End with a second spotted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
off the former West Pond on Wednesday. Other notables at the bay recently
have included TRICOLORED and LITTLE BLUE HERONS and RED KNOT. Among the
shorebirds, now increasing in numbers generally, were an UPLAND SANDPIPER
seen at Croton Point Park in Westchester County last Sunday and arriving
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.
A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER visited the quickly drying waterhole in Forest Park
Monday to Wednesday and another was spotted at Jones Beach West End on
Tuesday.
The first YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO was noted Tuesday followed by a BLACK-BILLED
CUCKOO by Thursday and a COMMON NIGHTHAWK appeared over Staten Island
Wednesday. An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was
