This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending January 27, 2010
Report your sightings in the Hudson-Mohawk Region to birdl...@hmbc.net First one correction: The Double-crested Cormorant reported last week has now been identified from photographs as a Great Cormorant. Fifty species were reported this week. The most interesting were: GREATER SCAUP: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/27. BLACK VULTURE: Hudson 1/25 (2). MERLIN: Brunswick 1/26. ICELAND GULL: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/21(2), 1/22 (2), 1/23 (3), 1/25 (3), 1/26, 1/27 (2). LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/27. SHORT-EARED OWL: Saratoga Battlefield 1/21 (4), 1/24 (3); Coxsackie Grasslands 1/23. NORTHERN SHRIKE: Five Rivers 1/21; Coxsackie 1/23, 1/25; Saratoga Battlefield 1/24. LAPLAND LONGSPUR: Valley Falls 1/22. SNOW BUNTING: Valley Falls 1/22. RED CROSSBILL: Burnt - Rossman Hills SF 1/24 (2). Other highlights: Ring-necked Duck: Stillwater 1/21 (~12). Wild Turkey: Sharon Springs 1/24 (17). Bald Eagle: Schuylerville 1/21; Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/23 (2); 4-mile Point 1/23; Spier Falls 1/26 (2); Cohoes 1/27 (chased by a Herring Gull !) Northern Harrier: Coxsackie Grasslands 1/21 (12), 1/23; Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/23, 1/26. Cooper's Hawk: Sharon Springs 1/24. Rough-legged Hawk: Fort Edward 1/21; Coxsackie Grasslands 1/21 (3), 1/23, 1/26; 4-mile Point 1/23. American Kestrel: Coxsackie 1/23, 1/25. Eastern Screech-Owl: 4-mile Point 1/23. Great Horned Owl: New Baltimore 1/25. Northern Flicker: Saratoga Battlefield 1/24. Eastern Phoebe: New Salem 1/24. Horned Lark: Fort Edward 1/21; Valley Falls 1/22; Coxsackie Grasslands 1/21 (30), 1/26 (30). Brown Creeper: Voorheesville 1/24 (4); Max Shaul SP 1/24; Saratoga Battlefield 1/24. Carolina Wren: Rotterdam 1/24 (2). Eastern Bluebird: Mechanicville 1/21; Saratoga Battlefield 1/24. Northern Mockingbird: Five Rivers 1/21. Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Dave Baim (New Salem), Gerry Colborn (Cohoes), Sarah Conley (Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/23, Coxsackie Grasslands 1/23), Bernie Grossman (Rexford), Rich Guthrie (Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/23, 1/27, Coxsackie Grasslands 1/23), Nancy Kern (Saratoga Battlefield 1/21, Fort Edward, Stillwater, Schuylerville, Mechanicville, Stuyvesant), Jory Langner (Saratoga Battlefield 1/24, Five Rivers), Bill Lee (Saratoga Battlefield 1/21, Stillwater 1/21, Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/21, 1/25, Coxsackie 1/25, New Baltimore 1/25), Steve Mesick (Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/23, 4-mile Point 1/23), Curt Morgan (Valley Falls), Marne Onderdonk (Saratoga Battlefield 1/24), John Ozard (Voorheesville), Bob Ramonowski (Schenectady), Will Raup (Coxsackie 1/23), Brad Walker (Brunswick), Tom Williams (Max Shaul SP, Sharon Springs, Burnt - Rossman Hills SF), Chad Witko (Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/21, 1/22, 1/26, Coxsackie Grasslands 1/21, 1/26), Will Yandik (Hudson, Livingston) and 2 anonymous contributors (Rotterdam, Spier Falls). -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
