-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County *July 3, 2014 * NYNY1407.03
- Birds Mentioned ARCTIC TERN+ EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) LEAST BITTERN American Kestrel Virginia Rail Least Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW Whip-poor-will YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow BLUE GROSBEAK Eastern Meadowlark 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, Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, July 3 at 5:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are ARCTIC TERN, such breeding birds as LEAST BITTERN, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, and BLUE GROSBEAK, a Jamaica Bay appeal and a pelagic trip reminder, plus a New York City EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE. ARTIC TERN appearances on the mud flats north of the Cupsogue County Park parking lot in Westhampton Dunes have been less reliable than expected this year, but one did appear there for a short while last Saturday afternoon, this another first-year bird. Also at Cupsogue there were indications of some southbound shorebird movement with the appearance of even more SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and a LEAST SANDPIPER. Some interesting Long Island breeders this season include LEAST BITTERN, which has nested on the north fork at Arshamomaque Preserve, just west of Greenport. The sanctuary is reached from the west side of Chapel Lane, north of Route 25, and the birds, including three young, are sometimes visible along a pond edge viewed from an observation tower off the green trail—a telescope is strongly recommended. VIRGINIA RAILS can also be heard there. In the Napeague area on the south fork CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW and WHIP-POOR-WILL continue their evening singing along Lazy Point Road and Napeague Meadow Road. At Connetquot River State Park two male YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS continue maintaining their territories between the entrance booths and the buildings near the main pond. Hopefully they will duplicate last year’s successful nesting. Most vulnerable of all these are the low nesting BLUE GROSBEAKS at a couple of locations around the Calverton Grasslands at the former Grumman airport. This important area also contains healthy populations of GRASSHOPPER and SAVANNAH SPARROWS and EASTERN MEADOWLARKS, as well as numerous other species, including AMERICAN KESTREL. This most productive of all the eastern Long Island grasslands certainly deserves protection from further development. What is presumably the same EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE seen last week at Pier 63 in Manhattan, was present today in the Chelsea Waterside Park, just west of 11th Avenue off the west end of 23rd Street. For Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge now is a very important time regarding the future of the West Pond. Proceedings this month will be instrumental in determining whether the breach in the West Pond will be repaired and thus whether the pond and surrounding area will be restored to pre-Sandy productivity. If you haven’t already, please sign the restoration petition, found on the internet at http://tinyurl.com/west-pond-petition Also please refer to Seth Ausubel’s post of Monday June 30 at aba.org under Birding News for New York for information on key meetings and follow-up regarding the refuge. Your involvement is important! For information on and reservations for the See Life Paulagics trip leaving Freeport, Long Island, at 8 PM on Monday, August 11th aboard the Captain Lou Fleet’s Star Stream VIII, please call 215-234-6805 or visit their website at www.paulagics.com To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483 <%28212%29%20372-1483>. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling and have a happy 4th! - End transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
