This is a summary of the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline reports for the week ending 24 Aug 2011. Report your sightings in New York's Hudson-Mohawk Region to [email protected]
Sixty-one species were reported this week. The best birds were: AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN: Cohoes Flats 8/17 -- 8/24. Also seen ~1 mile upstream from the Flats 8/21. SNOWY EGRET: New Baltimore 8/20. BLACK VULTURE: Slingerlands 8/18 (2). SANDHILL CRANE: Coxsackie 8/21. CASPIAN TERN: Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/21. Other notable sightings: Common Loon: Tomhannock 8/20. Great Egret: Tomhannock 8/20; Cohoes Flats 8/23. Osprey: Cohoes Flats 8/22. Bald Eagle: Cohoes Flats 8/17, 8/22 (2); Lake George 8/21, Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/23; Crescent Power Plant 8/23 (2). Broad-winged Hawk: Old Chatham 8/20; Clapper Hollow SF (Jefferson) 8/20, Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/23. Least Sandpiper: Cohoes Flats 8/21 (10). Yellow-billed Cuckoo: Swyer Preserve 8/21 (2). Barred Owl: Saratoga 8/23. Common Nighthawk: Saratoga 8/17 (3); Colonie 8/17 (22). Yellow-throated Vireo: Saratoga 8/22. Carolina Wren: Old Chatham 8/19. Chestnut-sided Warbler: Saratoga 8/22 (3+). Black-throated Green Warbler: Saratoga 8/24 Blackburnian Warbler: Saratoga 8/24 (2). Prairie Warbler: Coxsackie Grasslands 8/20. Mourning Warbler: Clapper Hollow SF 8/20 (2). Canada Warbler: Clapper Hollow SF 8/20 (2); Saratoga 8/24. Scarlet Tanager: Saratoga 8/24. Thanks to Phil Whitney (Birdline compiler) Steve Abrahamsen (Saratoga), Gary Goodness (Cohoes Flats), Elisabeth Grace (Old Chatham), Rich Guthrie (New Baltimore, Coxsackie, Coxsackie Grasslands, Coxsackie Boat Launch), Ken Harper (Cohoes Flats), John Hershey (Cohoes Flats), Alison Van Keuren (Slingerlands), Heidi Klinowski (Troy), Eric Krantz (Lake George), James Macione (Cohoes Flats), Jim de Waal Malefyt (Tomhannock), Andrew Mason (Clapper Hollow SF), Steve Mesick (Swyer Preserve), Curt Morgan (Cohoes Flats, Crescent Power Plant), Ellen Pemrick(Ann Lee Pond), Alan Schroeder (Cohoes Flats, Coxsackie Boat Launch, Altamont, Voorheesville, Guilderland, Indian Ladder Farms), and Tom Williams (Colonie). -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
