-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Oct. 18, 2024 * NYNY2410.18
- Birds Mentioned WOOD STORK+ NORTHERN WHEATEAR+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) AMERICAN AVOCET AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Whimbrel Marbled Godwit Long-billed Dowitcher Stilt Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Cory’s Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater Manx Shearwater AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN American Bittern GOLDEN EAGLE Broad-winged Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Red-headed Woodpecker WESTERN KINGBIRD LAPLAND LONGSPUR Grasshopper Sparrow CLAY-COLORED SPARROW LARK SPARROW Vesper Sparrow YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Worm-eating Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Hooded 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 Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 18, 2024 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today's tape are WOOD STORK, NORTHERN WHEATEAR, WESTERN KINGBIRD, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, GOLDEN EAGLE, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more. Late Saturday morning an immature WOOD STORK was found on Staten Island, and it has continued in North Mount Loretto State Forest through today, staying on a small wetland within the park. To reach this area, from Hylan Boulevard adjacent to the Mount Loretto Unique area, take Cunningham Road north and park in a gravel lot on the left side of the road opposite the school. Walk north on the extension of Cunningham Road past a gate and take the first path on the right. Watch for the wetland on the right side of the path, and please approach quietly. Last week's NORTHERN WHEATEAR at Truman's Beach in Orient was last reported there Saturday, trying to cope with very strong winds, but those winds did on Monday bring a WESTERN KINGBIRD in for a brief visit to Owl's Head Park in Brooklyn. The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN recently residing on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was last noted there on Monday, but there is a report of the PELICAN seen on the West Pond today. The 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS on the East Pond were present at least to Tuesday, a day after the 2 MARBLED GODWITS were last reported there, while other birds still visiting the East Pond this week included 2 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, up to 20 STILT and a few PECTORAL and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, and three or more CASPIAN TERNS. Other shorebirds featured an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER flying past Fort Tilden Saturday and 2 more over the Chestnut Ridge hawk watch in Bedford Tuesday, MARBLED GODWITS increasing to 4 this week on the Jones Beach West End flats by the Coast Guard Station, and a WHIMBREL at Napeague Tuesday. A collection of birds at the Mecox inlet flats on Sunday featured a WESTERN and 38 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS plus many LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 2 CASPIAN TERNS, but also exciting were the seabirds off Mecox last weekend, with SHEARWATER counts on the 2 days peaking with 220 GREAT and fewer CORY’S, plus 4 MANX Saturday and a SOOTY Sunday. Also noted were 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS Saturday, 3 more Sunday, while numbers off Montauk Point Sunday included 55 GREAT and 30 CORY’S SHEARWATERS and 14 PARASITIC JAEGERS. An AMERICAN BITTERN stayed around Prospect Park Lake to Wednesday. The BROAD-WINGED HAWK season at local hawk watches was quite disappointing this year, but this week single GOLDEN EAGLES flew by the Chestnut Ridge watch at the Butler Sanctuary both Sunday and Monday, with another Wednesday at the Quaker Ridge site at the Greenwich Audubon Center, and a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was photographed over central Staten Island Sunday. RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted at several sites this week, including birds lingering in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and at Jones Beach West End. A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was spotted at Robert Moses State Park Field 2 Saturday, and notable SPARROWS featured a LARK on Randall’s Island Saturday, a few CLAY-COLOREDS, a GRASSHOPPER at Inwood Hill Park Thursday, and at least 4 VESPERS, the latest at Brooklyn Bridge Park today. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was reported at Hofstra University in Uniondale Saturday, followed by 1 at Fort Tilden Sunday, and besides an increasing number of ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, others still moving through have included a few CONNECTICUTS plus late WORM-EATING, MOURNING and HOODED. Some DICKCISSELS are also still on the move, with one at Sunken Meadow 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 -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") 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