This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending January 20, 2010
Report your sightings in the Hudson-Mohawk Region to [email protected].
Fifty-one species were reported this week.
The most interesting were:
CANVASBACK: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/20.
MERLIN: Cohoes Falls 1/17.
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/14, 1/15.
GLAUCOUS GULL: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/15.
SHORT-EARED OWL: Saratoga Battlefield 1/17 (7), 1/18 (5), 1/19 (4), 1/20 (6).
NORTHERN SHRIKE: Coxsackie 1/14, 1/15; Slingerlands 1/17.
LAPLAND LONGSPUR: Schagticoke 1/16 (4); Cambridge 1/16; Valley Falls
1/17 (4-6), 1/18 (2), 1/19 (12+).
SNOW BUNTING: Schagticoke 1/16 (5); Cambridge 1/16 (~36); Valley
Falls 1/17 (250), 1/18.
RED CROSSBILL: West Fulton in the Burnt-Rossman Hills State Forest (1/17 (4-6).
Other highlights:
Northern Pintail: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/14.
Double-crested Cormorant: Catskill 1/18.
Great Blue Heron: Vischer Ferry 1/17.
Bald Eagle: Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/14; New Baltimore 1/14; Troy
1/17; Catskill 1/20.
Northern Harrier: Coxsackie 1/14 (5), 1/15 (2), 1/18 (6-7); Five
Rivers 1/17; Saratoga Battlefield 1/19.
Rough-legged Hawk: Coxsackie 1/14 (4), 1/15, 1/18, 1/20 (2)..
American Kestrel: Coxsackie 1/15.
Eastern Screech-Owl: Vosburgh Marsh 1/14.
Great Horned Owl: New Salem 1/19.
Barred Owl: Bethlehem 1/16.
Fish Crow: Crescent 1/17.
Common Raven: New Baltimore 1/14; West Fulton 1/17; Best 1/18.
Horned Lark: Schagticoke 1/16 (25); Cambridge 1/16 (~12); Valley
Falls 1/17 (25-30), 1/18, 1/19.
Winter Wren: Vischer Ferry 1/17.
Marsh Wren: Vischer Ferry 1/17.
Golden-crowned Kinglet: Vischer Ferry 1/17.
Eastern Bluebird: Slingerlands 1/17; Coxsackie 1/18, 1/20 (10), New
Salem 1/19 (4).
Northern Mockingbird: Coxsackie 1/15.
Fox Sparrow: Voorheesville 1/15.
Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Dave Baim (New Salem), Frank
Barrie (Albany), Susan Beaudoin (Valley Falls 1/17, Saratoga
Battlefield 1/20), Ron Bussian (Valley Falls 1/17), Deb Ferguson
(Bethlehem), Bernie Grossman (Saratoga Battlefield 1/19, Valley Falls
1/19), Rich Guthrie (New Baltimore 1/14), John Hershey (Coxsackie
1/14, Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/14, Vosburgh Marsh 1/14, Schagticoke
1/16, Crescent 1/17, Vischer Ferry 1/17, Valley Falls 1/17), Margaret
Krolick (Voorheesville), Bill Lee (Cohoes Falls, Troy), Larry Main
(Saratoga Battlefield 1/18, Valley Falls 1/18), Alan Mapes
(Slingerlands, Five Rivers), Marne Onderdonk (Coxsackie 1/18,
Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/18, Catskill 1/18, Saratoga Battlefield
1/19), Will Raup (Coxsackie 1/15, Coxsackie Boat Launch 1/15,
Saratoga Battlefield 1/17), Chad Witko (Coxsackie 1/15, 1/20,
Catskill 1/20), Matt Young (West Fulton 1/17) and Donna Zimmerman
(Cambridge 1/16).
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