This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending August 26
Report your sightings in the Hudson-Mohawk Region (NYSOA region 8) to
[email protected].
Seventy-six species were reported this week. Here are the highlights.
Great Egret: Saratoga 8/23; Ferry Drive 8/25 (4); Halfmoon Crescent
Park 8/26 (10).
SNOWY EGRET: Halfmoon Crescent Park 8/26.
Osprey: Cohoes Flats 8/20 (2); Round Lake 8/20; Brunswick 8/25.
Bald Eagle: Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/23; Brunswick 8/25 (2); Cohoes
Flats 8/26 (3).
Northern Harrier: Round Lake 8/20.
Red-tailed Hawk (leucistic): Germantown 8/24.
American Kestrel: Saratoga Battlefield 8/20 (3), 8/23.
Peregrine Falcon: Cohoes Flats 8/20.
Virginia Rail: Coxsackie Grasslands 8/23 (4).
Solitary Sandpiper: Coxsackie Grasslands 8/23.
Greater Yellowlegs: Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/24.
Lesser Yellowlegs: Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/24.
SANDERLING: Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/23.
Least Sandpiper: Cohoes Flats 8/20 (6); Coxsackie Boat Launch 8/24 (3).
Black-billed Cuckoo: Saratoga Battlefield 8/20.
Eastern Screech-Owl: Niskayuna 8/22.
Common Nighthawk: Guilderland 8/21 (2); Clifton Park 8/23 (3); Albany
8/23 (60+); New Scotland 8/23
(~15); Ferry Drive 8/25; Clifton Park 8/25 (6-8).
Yellow-throated Vireo: Saratoga Battlefield 8/23.
Common Raven: Fox Hill Road 8/23.
Carolina Wren: Rexford 8/20; Colonie 8/22; Niskayuna 8/22; Delmar 8/22.
Eastern Bluebird: Saratoga Battlefield 8/20; Wilton Wildlife Preserve 8/22 (5).
Nashville Warbler: Saratoga Battlefield 8/23.
Blackburnian Warbler: Saratoga Battlefield 8/23 (2).
Pine Warbler: Saratoga Battlefield 8/23.
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER: Saratoga Battlefield 8/23.
Black-and-White Warbler: Saratoga Battlefield 8/23.
Scarlet Tanager: Saratoga Battlefield 8/20, 8/23.
Eastern Meadowlark: Saratoga Battlefield 8/20, 8/23.
RED CROSSBILL: Fox Hill Road 8/23.
Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), James Colborn (Albany), L. Duval
(Wilton Wildlife Preserve ), Deb Ferguson (Delmar), Don Gresens
(Halfmoon Crescent Park, Cohoes Flats 8/26), Bernie Grossman (Clifton
Park 8/23, Rexford), Rich Guthrie (Coxsackie Boat Launch, Coxsackie
Grasslands), Ron Harrower (Fox Hill Road, Saratoga), John Hershey
(Ferry Drive), Naomi King (Germantown), Bill Lee (Cohoes Flats 8/20,
Niskayuna), Larry Main (Clifton Park 8/25), Marne Onderdonk (Saratoga
Battlefield), John Ozard (New Scotland), Alan Schroeder
(Guilderland), Denise Hackert-Stoner (Round Lake), Brad Walker
(Brunswick) and Tom Williams (Colonie).
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