This is a summary of the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline reports for the week
ending 11 May 2011. Report your sightings in New York's Hudson-Mohawk
Region to [email protected].
One hundred forty-seven species were reported this week including 22
warbler species.
The best birds of the week were:
AMERICAN BITTERN: Black Creek Marsh 5/6; Oppenheim 5/7.
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK: Five Rivers 5/7; Oppenheim 5/7.
UPLAND SANDPIPER: Ames 5/9 (2). Also a late report of 12 at the same
location 4/30.
CAPE MAY WARBLER: Brunswick 5/11.
CERULEAN WARBLER: Schodack Island State Park 5/11 (2).
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW: Saratoga County Airport 5/11 (2).
ORCHARD ORIOLE: Saratoga Battlefield 5/5; Five Rivers 5/7 (3+);
Meadowdale 5/8.
Other notable reports:
Virginia Rail: Nutten Hooke 5/4; Oppenheim 5/7.
Sora: Vischer Ferry 5/6; Oppenheim 5/7.
Wilson's Snipe: Papscanee 5/4; Meadowdale 5/8.
American Woodcock: Vischer Ferry 5/8.
Black-billed Cuckoo: Vischer Ferry 5/8.
Barred Owl: Saratoga Battlefield 5/5.
Whip-Poor-Will: Coeymans Hollow 5/8 (4).
Winter Wren: Niskayuna 5/8.
Swainson’s Thrush: Schodack Island SP 5/4 (2); Vischer Ferry 5/6;
Austerlitz 5/8.
Brown Thrasher: Five Rivers 5/5 (4); Daketown SF 5/7; Holt Preserve 5/8.
Northern Parula: Vosburgh Marsh 5/8.
Blackpoll Warbler: Livingston 5/8.
Canada Warbler: Lake Desolation 5/7; Austerlitz 5/8.
Lincoln’s Sparrow: Queenbury 5/6; New Baltimore 5/8.
Rusty Blackbird: Vischer Ferry 5/8 (5).
Pine Siskin: Slingerlands 5/5 (4); Colonie 5/5 (2); South Glens Falls
5/6 (3); East Greenbush 5/9.
Thanks to Phil Whitney (Birdline complier); Steve Abrahamsen (Saratoga
Battlefield 5/7, Wright’s Loop); Larry Alden (Meadowdale), Mona Bearor
(South Glens Falls), Susan Beaudoin (Saratoga Battlefield 5/6, Wright’s
Loop), Marilyn Boyd (Greenwich), Carol Coogan (Huyck Preserve), Kelly
Downs (no location), Alan French (Glenville), Rich Guthrie (4-mile
Point, Vosburgh Marsh, New Baltimore, Coxsackie Grasslands), John
Hershey (Vischer Ferry 5/8), John Kent (Ames), Nancy Kern (Stuyvesant,
Austerlitz, Nutten Hooke, Schodack Island, Papscanee), Heidi Klinowski
(Troy), Bill Lee (Turkey Run), Anne Magee (Clarksville), Jim deWaal
Malefyt (Rensselaer Tech Park),Steve Mesick (Slingerlands), Curt Morgan
(West Sand Lake, Colonie), Jeff Nadler (Collins Lake, Lake Desolation,
Daketown SF, Niskayuna), Ellen Pemrick (Colonie), Bob Ramonowski
(Schenectady), Will Raup (Oppenheim, Ames 5/7, Coeymans Hollow, Holt
Preserve), Alan Schroeder (Guilderland, Colonie, Schenectady, Ann Lee
Pond, Wright’s Loop), Denise Hackert-Stoner (Loudonville), Tom Williams
(Colonie, Vischer Ferry 5/6, 5/8, Schodack Island, Saratoga County
Airport) and Chad Witko (Livingston).
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