- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Oct. 4, 2024 * NYNY2410.04
- Birds mentioned BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) AMERICAN AVOCET American Golden-Plover Whimbrel Marbled Godwit RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Black-legged Kittiwake BLACK-HEADED GULL Cory's Shearwater Scopoli's Shearwater Great Shearwater Manx Shearwater Northern Gannet BROWN BOOBY AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN BROWN PELICAN Red-headed Woodpecker WESTERN KINGBIRD SEDGE WREN Grasshopper Sparrow CLAY-COLORED SPARROW LARK SPARROW Yellow-breasted Chat Blue-winged Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Orange-crowned Warbler Connecticut Warbler Cerulean Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL - 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 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, October 4th 2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN BOOBY, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, AMERICAN AVOCET, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, WESTERN KINGBIRD, SEDGE WREN, BLACK-THROATED GRAY, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more. A good week for unusual birds began last Saturday when an immature BROWN BOOBY was spotted in the Davis Park Marina on central Fire Island. The BOOBY has continued roosting in and feeding around the marina all week through today. Regular ferries for the short ride over to Davis Park are available from Patchogue. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still residing on the East Pond at least to Wednesday and other highlights there featured 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS to Thursday with one there today, a MARBLED GODWIT all week and occasional AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Wednesday and Thursday. Other local shorebirds featured a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on the Hudson River in Bay Ridge Brooklyn Wednesday, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER seen occasionally to Thursday at Randall's Island, 2 MARBLED GODWITS at Jones Beach West End Thursday and a WHIMBREL there last Saturday. The West End also provided a BLACK-HEADED GULL all week off the Coast Guard Station and a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE along with 19 CORY'S, 3 GREAT and 2 MANX SHEARWATERS and 22 NORTHERN GANNETS were tallied off Robert Moses State Park Sunday. Another seawatch Tuesday from Davis Park on Fire Island noted decent numbers of CORY'S SHEARWATERS with a few of the recently split SCOPOLI'S SHEARWATER also believed to be present along with 3 GREAT SHEARWATERS. On Thursday 8 BROWN PELICANS were spotted from Bay Point Marina in Blue Point flying east by Fire Island. A few RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were also noted this week. A WESTERN KINGBIRD was photographed Monday morning at Floyd Bennett Field before it quickly moved off to the southwest and a SEDGE WREN was spotted briefly Sunday afternoon at Prospect Point out in Sands Point in Nassau. A nice selection of warblers was topped by a BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER photographed this morning at Flax Pond in Old Field north of Stony Brook. Also unexpected were a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER spotted at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island Monday and a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER present Tuesday through Thursday at Corlears Hook Park near Pier 42 in lower Manhattan. Other notables included BLUE-WINGED WARBLER in Central Park's north end Thursday and today plus 2 more at the Wildflower Meadow today, these after one at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden last Saturday which was followed there by a CERULEAN WARBLER Sunday. The first of this Fall's ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS have begun to arrive and a few CONNECTICUTS continue to be seen. Single LARK SPARROWS were seen in Edgemere Queens last weekend and at Hot Dog Beach off Dune Road today while CLAY-COLORED SPARROW lingered on Governors Island to Sunday with others at Pelham Bay Park Sunday, Inwood Hill Park Monday and Freshkills Park Thursday and today. A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW found Wednesday at Marsha P. Johnson State Park in Brooklyn was still there today. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT visited Mount Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island Monday and another was a window strike casualty in Melville Thursday. Multiple DICKCISSELS were noted earlier this week at Governors and Randall's Islands with one also at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn yesterday while single BLUE GROSBEAKS visited Jones Beach West End to Tuesday and the Planting Fields Arboretum Wednesday. 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 -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
