New York City RBA
May 9, 2008
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- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 9, 2008
* NYNY0805.09
- Birds Mentioned:
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER+
Common Loon
Least Bittern
Common Moorhen
SANDHILL CRANE [Extralimital: Sullivan County]
Semipalmated Plover
Red Knot
Semipalmated Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Chuck-will's-widow
Whip-poor-will
Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Golden-winged Warbler [north of NYC]
Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Pine Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler [Extralimital: Sullivan County]
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Lark Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
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 nysarc1@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
Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070 (currently
disconnected **)
** NOTE: Due to the move by the NYC Audubon to a new
location, the NYC Area RBA is temporarily without
phone service. This is being worked on and hopefully
will be remedied soon. **
To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 297-4804 (weekdays)
Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126 (Long Island)
Compilers: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester
County
Transcriber: Karen Fung
[~ Transcript ~]
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for
Friday, May 9th, at 9:00 p.m. The highlights of
today's tape are SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER, SANDHILL
CRANE, and such spring migrants as RED-HEADED
WOODPECKER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED
WARBLER, KENTUCKY WARBLER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, and LARK SPARROW.
An adult SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER was spotted and
photographed at Pelham Bay Park on Monday, during its
few hour stay along the path to Hunter Island. It has
not been relocated there since.
A SANDHILL CRANE was seen again at Bashakill, Sullivan
County, last Sunday evening, flying around Haven Road
looking for a landing site in the high water
conditions. Among the many interesting birds in that
area this week was an early MOURNING WARBLER on
Saturday, and it should be noted that CERULEAN WARBLER
is on territory at several locations north of the
city.
It was a good week in the city parks, with a nice
variety of migrants. Prospect Park seemed to produce
many of the more unusual passerines for the week.
These included a male SUMMER TANAGER Wednesday at the
Vale of Cashmere, a male BLUE GROSBEAK on the
Peninsula Wednesday, and a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Wednesday, joined by a second, on Thursday, at the
Lullwater. Also in Prospect were a KENTUCKY WARBLER
Sunday at the Vale, and another Thursday, near
Prospect Lake; these followed Friday by one in the
Midland, and one at the Ravine, and a YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT present near Terrace Bridge from Saturday to
Thursday. The 20+ species of warblers in the park
have also included CAPE MAY WARBLER, WORM-EATING
WARBLER, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, and up to four HOODED
WARBLER, plus a LAWRENCE'S WARBLER HYBRID, and other
recent arrivals of note have featured BLACK-BILLED
CUCKOO and LINCOLN'S SPARROW.
A LARK SPARROW was reported last weekend from nearby
Green-Wood Cemetery, in the area of the catacombs on
Saturday, and at the intersection of Ocean Hill and
Ocean Avenue on Sunday.
Central Park has also enjoyed a good diversity,
including a breeding-plumaged COMMON LOON, lingering
on the Reservoir; YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO last weekend; a
WHIP-POOR-WILL last Friday; an adult RED-HEADED
WOODPECKER again near the Ramble on Tuesday; various
flycatchers and swallows, the latter including a few
CLIFF SWALLOWS; five species of vireos; and a growing
number of thrushes, now including SWAINSON'S THRUSH
and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. Among the warblers, the most
unexpected may have been the CERULEAN WARBLER singing
west of the park, Sunday, along West 89th Street. But
in the park, warblers have featured TENNESSEE WARBLER,
a good number of CAPE MAY WARBLERS, a late PINE
WARBLER or two, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER and BLACKPOLL
WARBLER on Wednesday, WORM-EATING WARBLER, one or two
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES, up to four HOODED WARBLERS,
WILSON'S WARBLER, CANADA WARBLER, and a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Tuesday, near the Meer, at the
north end. Good numbers of SCARLET TANAGERS and
BALTIMORE ORIOLES, some ORCHARD ORIOLES, ROSE-BREASTED
GROSBEAKS, and INDIGO BUNTINGS, plus a decent number
of lingering PURPLE FINCHES, are all adding a nice
element of color. Sparrows have included some
LINCOLN'S, and some BOBOLINKS stopped by the north end
on Saturday.
The water drip at Riverside Park in northern Manhattan
over the weekend attracted at least 19 species of
warblers, including a PROTHONOTARY last Friday
evening, and WORM-EATING. Other species in the park
have included GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and HOODED WARBLER.
At Forest Park, Queens, warblers included a CERULEAN
on Sunday. Hopefully this rain will fill up the dry
waterhole.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge there were
ORANGE-CROWNED and WORM-EATING WARBLERS in the South
Garden Tuesday, and on Wednesday a GULL-BILLED TERN
was around the West Pond, with two HOODEDS in the
Gardens.
At Connetquot River State Park a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
was singing near the fish hatchery Tuesday and
Thursday, and twelve PINE SISKINS were still visiting
the feeders there on Thursday.
Birds recently at Jones Beach West End have included
BLACK TERN, COMMON TERN, and two GULL-BILLED TERNS
last Sunday, a GULL-BILLED still around there
Wednesday, and various shorebirds are beginning to
gather there, including RED KNOT, SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHER, and SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPERS.
Another BLACK TERN was at PIKE'S BEACH in Westhampton
Dunes on Thursday.
CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOWS have returned to appropriate
eastern Long Island sites, and two RED CROSSBILLS were
noted Tuesday and Wednesday at the Sarnoff Preserve,
near Maple Swamp, in Flanders.
Mecox Inlet produced WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER and
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 15 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS,
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, and two CASPIAN TERNS last
Sunday. Other highlights Sunday from East End ponds
included 15 PURPLE SANDPIPERS on the westernmost jetty
at Georgica Pond, and two CASPIAN TERNS and three
FORSTER'S TERNS at Sag Pond.
Other recent arrivals have included LEAST BITTERN,
COMMON MOORHEN, LEAST TERN, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER north of the city,
and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED
SPARROW.
To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at
(631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212)
297-4804. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean
Society of New York and the National Audubon Society.
[~ End Transcript ~]
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