-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sept. 3, 2021 * NYNY2109.03
BRIDLED TERN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK Common Nighthawk AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT BAIRD’S SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER WILSON'S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Royal Tern Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Cory’s Shearwater Great Shearwater Manx Shearwater AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER Red-headed Woodpecker SEDGE WREN LARK SPARROW Yellow-breasted Chat YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD Worm-eating Warbler GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Wilson’s Warbler 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 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 Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 3, 2021 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, a belated pelagic BRIDLED TERN, a pelagic trip featuring AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER and RED-NECKED PHALOROPE, a nice selection of shorebirds including AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS and WILSON'S PHALAROPE, SEDGE WREN, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKIRD, LARK SPARROW, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and more. The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was still around the southwest corner of the pond last Sunday, but several more inches of rain dumped on the pond by Hurricane Ida have really set back the shorebird season there despite heroic efforts to keep the pond draining properly. A pelagic voyage well south of Suffolk County aboard the ship Seas the Day on Friday August 27th provided nice photos of a BRIDLED TERN. Then on Monday observers aboard the whale boat the American Princess out near Hudson Canyon recorded 4 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 125 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, 3 CORY’S, 60 GREAT and 29 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS, plus a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT that circled the boat. Also seen were 110 Short-Finned Pilot Whales, a Humpback Whale, and about 60 Common, 6 Risso's and 30 Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins. As a note, too, a Northern Right Whale was photographed off Nickerson Beach Saturday. Sea watching from Robert Moses State Park and Shinnecock Inlet last weekend also produced very small numbers of CORY'S, GREAT and MANX SHEARWATERS and WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS. A good week for shorebirds featured an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Monday and Tuesday followed by 6 flying by Robert Moses State Park today. Some BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS this week included 3 on the Stargazer fields along Route 51 in Centerport Sunday, 1 there Tuesday, and then 2 Tuesday and Thursday off Oregon Road just east of Depot Lane in Cutchogue. These Oregon Road fields also provided counts of up to 5 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS today, and 4 were also reported flying by Robert Moses State Park today. A MARBLED GODWIT at Brooklyn's Plumb Beach last Saturday was followed by 1 Monday and 2 Tuesday at Old Inlet, the cut west of Smith Point County Park, where an HUDSONIAN GODWIT was also present those two days. Two more HUDSONIANS flew by Robert Moses State Park Wednesday. 104 ROYAL TERNS were also counted at Old Inlet on Monday. Single WHIMBREL were seen at Floyd Bennett Field Saturday, Shinnecock Sunday and Plumb Beach Tuesday, and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE visited Heckscher State Park last Saturday. A GULL-BILLED TERN was still at Jamaica Bay Sunday, and CASPIAN and BLACK TERNS were spotted at numerous locations after the storm. COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are now migrating through. Today RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were found at Central Park’s north end and in Astoria Park, Queens. A female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was reported again Wednesday at Nickerson Beach, and 6 SEDGE WRENS were counted at Freshkills Park on Staten Island Monday. Two immature LARK SPARROWS found Thursday along the edge of Field 2 at Robert Moses State Park were still present today and another was at Brooklyn Bridge Park, these following 1 at Croton Point Park Tuesday. A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER in Central Park yesterday was the highlight among the WARBLERS that this week also included WORM-EATING, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, HOODED and WILSON’S. Single DICKCISSELS in Brooklyn Monday and at Crab Meadow Beach Tuesday were followed by 5 at Robert Moses State Park today. 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/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/ --
