-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sept. 7, 2018 * NYNY1809.07
- Birds Mentioned EURASIAN WIGEON King Eider Common Eider Cory’s Shearwater Sooty Shearwater MANX SHEARWATER Least Bittern Sora American Golden-Plover Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Stilt Sandpiper BAIRD’S SANDPIPER White-rumped Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher WILSON’S PHALAROPE POMARINE JAEGER Parasitic Jaeger Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Nighthawk Red-headed Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher WESTERN KINGBIRD Red-breasted Nuthatch Winter Wren GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER CONNECTICUT WARBLER Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT LARK SPARROW Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 7, 2018 at 9 pm. The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN KINGBIRD, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, EURASIAN WIGEON, POMARINE JAEGER, MANX SHEARWATER, LARK SPARROW, CONNECTICUT and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, and YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. Though shorebirds continue to garner much of the birding attention locally, the inevitable shift is on its way, as exemplified by a WESTERN KINGBIRD that was photographed at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area last Saturday morning. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, despite continuing high water on the East Pond, birders were treated this week to a MARBLED GODWIT at the south end and two HUDSONIAN GODWITS and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE at the north end through the holiday weekend, including Monday. Other shorebirds included a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER spotted on Monday as well as a decent number of STILT and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, a few WESTERN SANDPIPERS, and an occasional PECTORAL SANDPIPER; other highlights featured a SORA at the north end Thursday, up to three CASPIAN TERNS mostly at the north end, especially early in the week, and among a good and increasing variety of waterfowl, a drake EURASIAN WIGEON in transitional plumage spotted Tuesday on the East Pond. Three WHIMBREL were out on Yellow Bar Hassock in Jamaica Bay on Monday. Out on the sod fields along the east side of Doctors Path north of Riverhead a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER showed up last Sunday, and one was still there today, but a single BAIRD’S SANDPIPER found there was apparently only seen Monday. An adult AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER continued on the Route 51 sod farm in Centerport, just east of Route 111, at least to Sunday; more should be arriving soon. Finishing the shorebirds, two MARBLED GODWITS were still at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes last Saturday, when a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was also seen near the open Mecox inlet, and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT visited Mecox yesterday. Notably, the Eastern Long Island sites, at least early in the week, were most productive for seabirds. At Mecox Saturday an ocean watch produced a modest 25 CORY’S SHEARWATERS compared to the estimated 300 off there Sunday morning along with a late SOOTY SHEARWATER, but Saturday provided the better JAEGER show with an estimated 10 PARASITICS as well as 1 POMARINE. Cupsogue had comparable results, with 50 CORY’S SHEARWATERS Saturday and 272 plus a MANX SHEARWATER on Sunday, while the PARASITIC totals were 5 Saturday and 2 Sunday. 6 BLACK TERNS were also offshore Saturday. Another MANX SHEARWATER was seen sitting off Shinnecock Inlet last Saturday morning, and 65 CORY’S SHEARWATERS and 8 PARASITIC JAEGERS were counted off Sagg Pond in Bridgehampton Sunday. A changing male KING EIDER was still on the east side of Shinnecock Inlet with COMMON EIDERS as of Tuesday. A LEAST BITTERN was spotted at Arshamomaque Preserve in Centerport last Saturday, and two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still at Connetquot River State Park Tuesday. The Randall’s Island LARK SPARROW was still present last Saturday, when other singles were found on Governor’s Island and at Jones Beach West End, another visiting Floyd Bennett Field on Monday. The WARBLER highlight was the CONNECTICUT found today around the south side of the Lake in Prospect Park, where a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was photographed last Tuesday. A female-type GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was noted in Central Park’s Ramble today, perhaps a continuing bird. Both Central and Prospect Parks produced HOODED WARBLER this week, with a reasonable selection but low numbers of other Warblers also moving through. A Tuesday morning flight witnessed at Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn netted OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, 26 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, WINTER WREN and 12 species of WARBLERS including CAPE MAY. COMMON NIGHTHAWKS continue to gather in the evenings but will be finishing up soon. To phone in reports, on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734 4126 or call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a message. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
