This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending September 9
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Seventy-eight species were reported this week. Here are the highlights.
Blue-winged Teal: Black Creek Marsh 9/3.
Green-winged Teal: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/7 (4).
Ruffed Grouse: Austerlitz 9/4.
AMERICAN BITTERN: Black Creek Marsh 9/3.
Great Egret: Vischer Ferry NHP 9/2; Coxsackie Grasslands 9/7 (2).
Osprey: Austerlitz 9/4.
Northern Harrier: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/7; Thacher Park 9/7 (2).
American Kestrel: Austerlitz 9/4; Coxsackie Grasslands 9/7.
MERLIN*: Brunswick 9/8.
Virginia Rail: Black Creek Marsh 9/3 (2).
Greater Yellowlegs: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/6 (4), 9/7 (8),
Lesser Yellowlegs: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/5 (2), 9/6, 9/7 (2).
Semipalmated Sandpiper: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/7.
PECTORAL SANDPIPER: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/5 (4), 9/6, 9/7 (2).
Wilson's Snipe: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/5 (2), 9/7.
American Woodcock: Austerlitz 9/4.
BONAPARTE'S GULL: Lake George 9/8.
Common Nighthawk: South Glens Falls 9/4 (28); Coxsackie Grasslands
9/7 (5); West Glens Falls 9/8 (5).
Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Vischer Ferry NHP 9/5; Coxsackie Grasslands 9/6 (3).
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER: Meadowdale 9/7.
Common Raven: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/7; Thacher Park 9/7 (3).
CLIFF SWALLOW: Black Creek Marsh 9/3.
Eastern Bluebird: Austerlitz 9/4.
SWAINSON'S THRUSH: Coxsackie Grasslands 9/6.
Magnolia Warbler: Vischer Ferry NHP 9/2; Coxsackie Grasslands 9/6 (3), 9/7 (4).
Black-throated Green Warbler: Waterford 9/6; Petersburgh 9/8 (2).
Black-and-White Warbler: Austerlitz 9/4; Petersburgh 9/8.
WILSON'S WARBLER: Vischer Ferry NHP 9/2; Meadowdale 9/2; Petersburgh 9/8.
CANADA WARBLER: Vischer Ferry NHP 9/2.
Scarlet Tanager: Meadowdale 9/2; Austerlitz 9/4.
Eastern Towhee: Pine Bush 9/6 (2).
VESPER SPARROW: Austerlitz 9/4.
Baltimore Oriole: Black Creek Marsh 9/3 (2).
* Seen "dive bombing" a Sharp-shinned Hawk.
Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Larry Alden ( Meadowdale, Thacher
Park), Hope Batcheller (Petersburgh), Mona Bearor (South Glens Falls,
West Glens Falls), Rich Guthrie (Coxsackie Grasslands), Nancy Kern
(Austerlitz), Eric Krantz (Lake George), Bill Lee (Black Creek
Marsh), Neil Manning (Vischer Ferry 9/5, Waterford), Ellen Pemrick
(Pine Bush), Brad Walker (Brunswick) and Lucy ____ (Vischer Ferry 9/2).
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