A friend and I went to look for the pine grosbeaks in Queensbury today, checking several of the areas where they had been reported, but came up empty handed. We eventually found 17 PINE GROSBEAKS from a trail behind the Adirondack Community College on Bay Road. An accipiter (looked to be a sharp-shinned hawk) eventually flushed the birds to the west. We drove around to the next road over in that direction (Meadowbrook Road) to see if we could catch up with them again and saw several pine grosbeaks, many cedar waxwings (plus one possible Bohemian waxwing), one bluebird, and multiple starlings in three trees on Meadowbrook Road between the two ends of Waverly Place.
>From there we headed to Harris Road in Northumberland to look for the >harlequin duck. Two other birders were there when we arrived and, while there >were many waterfowl present (common goldeneyes, common mergansers, mallards, >Canada geese), we didn't see the harlequin. The two people there did report >seeing a greater white-fronted goose earlier and a bit upriver from this >location. Jesse Jaycox Clintondale, NY -- 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/ --
