5/23/10 - Doodletown/Mine Rd., West Point, NY
Time: 8am to 4pm
Observers: Andrew Block
15+ Turkey Vultures
4 Canada Geese
2 Mallards
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
6 Wild Turkeys (incl. polts)
1 Ring-necked pheasant
3 Mourning Doves
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo (great looks for 5 minutes)
2 Chimney Swifts
3+ Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
3 Red-bellied Woodpeckers
1 Hairy woodepecker
3 Pileated Woodepeckers
2 Northern Flickers
3 Olive-sided Flycatchers
2 Eastern Wood-Pewees
3 Eastern Phoebes
3 Great Crested Flycatchers
3+ Yellow-throated Vireos
several Warbling Vireos
many Red-eyed Vireos
4 Blue Jays
5 American Crows
2 Tree Swallows
1 Barn Swallow
2 Tufted Titmice
5 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
several Wood thrushes
many American Robins
3+ Veerys
many Gray Catbirds
30+ Cedar Waxwings
several Blue-winged Warblers
several Yellow Warblers
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
many Cerulean Warblers
3 Black and white Warblers
many American Redstarts
2 Worm-eating Warblers
3 Louisiana Waterthrushes
3 Common Yellowthroats
many Hooded Warblers (great looks)
1 Canada Warbler (great looks)
several Scarlet Tanagers
2 Eastern Towhees
5+ Chipping Sparrows
1 Song Sparrow
7+ Northern Cardinals
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
15+ Indigo Buntings (great looks)
several Red-winged Blackbirds
5 Common grackles
4 Brown-headed Cowbirds
3+ Orchard Orioles
many Baltimore Orioles
4 American Goldfinches
Also had a Black Ratsnake, Snapping Turtle, Gray Treefrogs, Green frogs, Common
Five-lined Skink, and 11 spp. of butterflies.
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Field Biologist & Eco-tour Leader
37 Tanglewylde Avenue
Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131
Phone: (914) 337-1229; Cell: (914) 886-5124; Fax: (914) 771-8036
"When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another
heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again..." - William
Beebe, first Curator of Birds, Bronx Zoo
"Crikey! Have a look at that!" - Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter
"Just like the white winged dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing whoo,
baby...whoo...said whoo" - Stephanie L. Nicks, Edge of 17, Bella Donna
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