This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending May 12, 2010.
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121 species were reported this week including 24 warbler species.
Most notable birds:
BLACK VULTURE: Meadowdale 5/7.
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK: Betar Byway 5/6.
BONAPARTE'S GULL: Lake George 5/8 (35), 5/11 (125+).
COMMON TERN: Lake George 5/8 (12), 5/11 (10).
*SWAINSON'S THRUSH: Lisha Kill 5/10; Five Rivers 5/11; Albany 5/11, 5/12.
CAPE MAY WARBLER: Five Rivers 5/8; New Baltimore 5/9; Albany 5/11.
*BAY-BREASTED WARBLER: Pine Bush 5/11.
*CANADA WARBLER: Vischer Ferry 5/7.
LINCOLN'S SPARROW: Vischer Ferry 5/7; Normanskill Farm 5/9; Loudonville
5/10.
EVENING GROSBEAK: Queensbury 5/6 (2);
There was also a report of a KENTUCKY WARBLER in Niskayuna on 5/11.
Observer commented ".the facial markings were very distinctive and
clear.Didn't have the mask of a Yellowthroat.more of a sideburned look."
Transients and recent arrivals [number of reports in brackets]; * =
first of season
Green Heron [3]
Spotted Sandpiper [4]
Solitary Sandpiper [5]
*Yellow-billed Cuckoo: Ramshorn-Livingston 5/5; Pine Bush 5/11.
*Black-billed Cuckoo: Five Rivers 5/9.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird [5]
Eastern Wood-Pewee [1]
Least Flycatcher [5]
Great Crested Flycatcher [6]
Eastern Kingbird [9]
Yellow-throated Vireo [4]
Red-eyed Vireo [6]
*Bank Swallow [2]
Veery [6]
Hermit Thrush [2]
Wood Thrush [6]
Blue-winged Warbler [3]
Nashville Warbler [1]
Northern Parula [3]
Chestnut-sided Warbler [6]
*Magnolia Warbler [7]
Black-throated Blue Warbler [11]
Black-throated Green Warbler [9]
Blackburnian Warbler [1]
Prairie Warbler [4]
*Blackpoll Warbler [1]
Black-and-White Warbler [8]
American Redstart {11]
Northern Waterthrush [6]
Scarlet Tanager [11]
White-crowned Sparrow [6]
Rose-breasted Grosbeak [13]
Indigo Bunting [2]
Bobolink [3]
Baltimore Oriole [13]
Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Steve Abrahamsen (Saratoga, Saratoga
Battlefield, Round Lake, Five Rivers 5/9, Vischer Ferry 5/8), Larry
Alden (Meadowdale), Dave Baim (New Salem), Mona Bearor (South Glens
Falls), Chris Connell (Middle Grove), Larry Federman
(Ramshorn-Livingston), Deb Ferguson (Delmar), Alan French (Glenville),
Rich Guthrie (New Baltimore), Brian Haley (Reist Sanctuary, Lisha Kill,
Vischer Ferry 5/4, Niskayuna 5/11), Ken Harper (Vischer Ferry 5/7), Sue
Hendler (Edinburg), John Hershey (Clifton Park, Vischer Ferry 5/10),
John Kent (Albany Normanskill Farm), Heidi Klinowski (Troy), Eric Krantz
(Lake George), Cliff Lamere (Loudonville), Bill Lee (Queensbury, Betar
Byway, Collins Lake), Jim de Waal Malefyt (Poestenkill), Alan Mapes
(Five Rivers 5/11), Pat Newman (Glenville), Frank Palmer (Burnt Hills),
Ellen Pemrick (Colonie), Bob Ramonowski (Schenectady), Will Raup
(Albany), Gregg Recer (Vischer Ferry 5/9 - HMBC trip), Scott Stoner
(Five Rivers 5/8 - HMBC Birds & Breakfast), Tom Williams (Vischer Ferry
5/7, 5/11, Pine Bush), Donna Zimmerman (Guilderland), and Dodi __
(Vischer Ferry 5/10).
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