This is a summary of the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline reports for the week
ending October 6, 2010.
Report your sightings in New York's Hudson-Mohawk Region to
[email protected]
One-hundred one species were reported this week. Most-reported species
included Yellow-rumped Warbler (21 reports), White-throated Sparrow
(17), Eastern Phoebe (14), Northern Flicker (11), Cedar Waxwing (11),
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (10), Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (10) and Carolina
Wren (8).
Best birds of the week were:
NORTHERN GOSHAWK: Coeymans Landing 9/30; Chatham 10/4.
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK: Colonie 10/2.
MERLIN: Halfmoon 10/2; Brunswick 10/2.
SORA: Vischer Ferry 10/5.
PHILADELPHIA VIREO: Vischer Ferry 10/2.
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER: Five Rivers 10/5.
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT: Brunswick 10/2.
RUSTY BLACKBIRD: Vischer Ferry 10/4 (~160).
DICKCISSEL: Stuyvesant 10/5.
Other birds of interest:
Snow Goose (blue morph): Brunswick 10/4, 10/6.
Gadwall: Stanton Pond 10/1 (2).
American Wigeon: Stanton Pond 10/1.
Northern Pintail: Stanton Pond 10/1 (4).
Ruddy Duck: Lock 7 9/29 (12-14).
Pied-billed Grebe: Columbia County 10/5.
Great Egret: Lock 7 9/29; Slingerlands 10/4.
Bald Eagle: New Baltimore 10/1 (2).
Broad-winged Hawk: Woodlawn Preserve 10/2.
American Kestrel: Austerlitz 9/29; Esperance 10/3; Columbia County 10/5
(11).
Peregrine Falcon: Troy 10/2; Brunswick 10/3; Green Island 10/4 (2)..
Wilson's Snipe: Vischer Ferry 10/4; Chatham 10/4; Columbia County 10/5..
American Woodcock: West Sand Lake 10/1.
Great Horned Owl: Slingerlands 10/4.
Blue-headed Vireo: Brunswick 10/1, 10/3 (4), 10/5 (2); Chatham 10/4;
Vischer Ferry 10/5.
Winter Wren: Columbia County 10/5; Vischer Ferry 10/5.
Golden-crowned Kinglet: Colonie 9/29; Moreau Lake SP 10/2 (3); Brunswick
10/3 (15); Chatham 10/4 (5); Vischer Ferry 10/5.
Swainson's Thrush: Austerlitz 10/2.
Tennessee Warbler: Pine Bush 10/3.
Northern Parula: Vischer Ferry 10/4, 10/5.
Black-throated Blue Warbler: Austerlitz 10/2; Woodlawn Preserve 10/2
Palm Warbler: Stanton Pond 10/1.
Blackpoll Warbler: Coxsackie Grasslands 10/3; Brunswick 10/4; Five
Rivers 10/5.
Scarlet Tanager: Austerlitz 10/2.
Lincoln's Sparrow: Five Rivers 10/5.
White-crowned Sparrow: Brunswick 10/3, 10/5.
Indigo Bunting: Brunswick 10/1, 10/3; Columbia County 10/5.
Purple Finch: Ghent 10/2 (2); Coxsackie Grasslands 10/3; Chatham 10/4;
Brunswick 10/5.
Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Nancy Castillo (Providence), Don
Gresens (Woodlawn Preserve HMBC trip), Bernie Grossman (Rexford), Rich
Guthrie (New Baltimore, Coxsackie Grasslands, Stanton Pond), Nancy Kern
(Austerlitz, Ghent, Chatham, Stuyvesant, Columbia County), Heidi
Klinowski (Troy), Bill Lee (Esperance), Naomi Lloyd (West Sand Lake),
Alan Mapes (Lock 7, Thacher Park), David Martin (Slingerlands), Curt
Morgan (Halfmoon, Green Island), Marne Onderdonk (Saratoga, Moreau Lake
SP), Ellen Pemrick (Colonie 10/2), Will Raup (Albany), Elayne Ryba
(Niskayuna), Brad Walker (Brunswick), Tom Williams (Colonie 9/29;
Vischer Ferry 9/29, 10/4, 10/5), and T. Lloyd Williams (Vischer Ferry
10/2, Five Rivers, Pine Bush).
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