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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.
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