This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending January 6, 2010.
Report your sightings to birdl...@hmbc.net.
Sixty-flour species were reported this week including highlights from
the Troy Christmas Count. The latter featured Northern Pintail,
Redhead (2), Merlin (2), Peregrine Falcon, Iceland Gull, Horned Lark
(382), Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, LAPLAND LONGSPUR (2), and
Snow Bunting (2924).
Other notable sightings:
ICELAND GULL: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/1, 1/5 (2), 1/6; Lake Rensselaer 1/1.
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/6
GLAUCOUS GULL: Lake Rensselaer 1/1; Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/6.
NORTHERN SHRIKE: Coxsackie 1/5
RED CROSSBILL: West Fulton (Burnt - Rossman Hills SF) 12/31 (5).
Also:
Ring-necked Duck: Lake George 1/1.
Bufflehead: Lake George 1/1.
Common Goldeneye: Cohoes 12/31 (~25); Lake George 1/1.
Bald Eagle: New Baltimore 1/1; South Glens Falls 1/4; Coxsackie Boat
Launch 1/6.
Northern Harrier: Coxsackie 1/5, 1/6 (4).
Cooper's Hawk: Colonie 12/31; Stuyvesant Falls 1/3
Rough-legged Hawk: Clifton Park 1/1; Saratoga Battlefield 1/1;
Coxsackie 1/5, 1/6 (3).
Eastern Screech-Owl: New Baltimore 1/2
Great Horned Owl: Meadowdale 1/1.
Barred Owl: Gilboa 12/30.
Belted Kingfisher: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/5
Northern Flicker: Saratoga Battlefield 1/1
Common Raven: West Fulton 12/31 (13).
Carolina Wren: Cohoes 12/31; Slingerlands 1/1; New Baltimore 1/1, 1/6
Winter Wren: Albany 1/6; Coxsackie 1/6.
Hermit Thrush: Coxsackie 1/6.
Savannah Sparrow: Coxsackie 1/5
Snow Bunting: Lake Rensselaer 1/1; Old Chatham 1/5 (6).
Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Larry Alden (Troy Christmas Count,
Meadowdale), Mark Claydon (Glenville), Lindsey Duval (South Glens
Falls), Elisabeth Grace (Old Chatham), Bernie Grossman (Clifton Park,
Rexford), Rich Guthrie (New Baltimore, Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/1,
Coxsackie), John Hershey (West Fulton), Bill Lee (Cohoes), Alan Mapes
(Lake George, Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/6, Coxsackie), Steve Mesick
(Slingerlands), Marne Onderdonk (Saratoga Battlefield), Ellen Pemrick
(Colonie), Bob Ramonowski (Schenectady), Will Raup (Albany), Gregg
Recer (Lake Rensselaer), Kathryn Schneider (Stuyvesant Falls) and
Chad Witko (Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/5, 1/6, Coxsackie 1/5, 1/6).
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