This is a summary of the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline reports for the week
ending July 21, 2010
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Ninety species were reported this week.
Best birds of the week:
GREAT EGRET: Cohoes Flats 7/19 (5); Niskayuna RR Station 7/21 (6).
SNOWY EGRET: Cohoes Flats 7/19
MISSISSIPPI KITE: Root 7/18.
CLIFF SWALLOW: Glen 7/18.
CANADA WARBLER: Rural Grove SF 7/18.
Other birds of interest:
Hooded Merganser: Cohoes Power Dam 7/20 (2).
Pied-Billed Grebe: Logtown Marsh 7/18.
Osprey: Cohoes Flats 7/15.
Bald Eagle: Cohoes Flats 7/15; New Baltimore 7/15 (2), 7/19 (4), 7/21;
Coxsackie Boat Launch 7/19 (2).
Broad-winged Hawk: Rural Grove SF 7/18.
Virginia Rail: Logtown Marsh 7/18.
Common Moorhen: Logtown Marsh 7/18.
Greater Yellowlegs: Cohoes Flats 7/19
Lesser Yellowlegs: Cohoes Flats 7/15 (2), 7/19 (2).
Least Sandpiper: Cohoes Flats 7/15 (12+), 7/17 (2).
Black-billed Cuckoo: Saratoga Battlefield 7/18 (2)
Eastern Screech-Owl: New Salem 7/20.
Great Horned Owl: New Salem 7/21.
Barred Owl: Hadley 7/17; Rural Grove SF 7/18 (3).
Fish Crow: New Baltimore 7/19 (8), 7/21 (3).
Common Raven: Amsterdam 7/18.
Horned Lark: Saratoga County Airport 7/18 (6).
Carolina Wren: Cohoes Flats 7/15; New Baltimore 7/19, 7/21.
Hermit Thrush: Hadley 7/17 (3); Rural Grove SF 7/18.
Wood Thrush: Schuylerville 7/16.
Brown Thrasher: Root 7/18.
Blue-winged Warbler: Cohoes Flats 7/15.
Magnolia Warbler: Rural Grove SF 7/18.
Savannah Sparrow: Schuylerville 7/16; Coxsackie Grasslands 7/16;
Saratoga Battlefield 7/21.
Eastern Meadowlark: Saratoga Battlefield 7/21 (5).
Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Steve Abrahamsen (Hadley, Saratoga
County Airport, Schuylerville), Dave Baim (New Salem), Susan Beaudoin
(Saratoga Battlefield), Deb Ferguson (Cohoes Flats 7/17), Gary Goodness
(Cohoes Flats 7/19), Rich Guthrie (Coxsackie, Coxsackie Boat Launch,
Coxsackie Grasslands, Root, New Baltimore, Cohoes Power Dam), David
Harrison (Logtown Marsh, Rural Grove SF, Glen, Amsterdam), John Hershey
(Cohoes Flats 7/19) and Tom Williams (Niskayuna RR Station). Cohoes
Flats 7/15 sightings by the Thursday group led by Bill Lee.
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