Birdline summary
for week ending May 17:
43 reports; 116
species reported
Best of the week:
AMERICAN BITTERN:
Vischer Ferry 5/16
LEAST BITTERN:
Vischer Ferry 5/12
COMMON GALINULE:
Vischer Ferry 5/14
LITTLE GULL:
Saratoga Lake 5/13 (2), 5/14, 5/15 (2)
BLACK TERN:
Saratoga Lake 5/17
WHIP-POOR-WILL:
Hillsdale 5/17 (2)
ORCHARD ORIOLE:
Five Rivers 5/13; Pine Bush 5/17 (2)
EVENING GROSBEAK:
Chatham 5/11 (2)
New arrivals and
transients:
Brant: Hudson
River 5/17
Red-Breasted
Merganser: Saratoga Lake 5/13 (2)
Common Loon:
Saratoga Lake 5/13 (4)
Black-billed
Cuckoo: East Hoosick 5/13; Stillwater 5/16; Vischer Ferry 5/17
Eastern
Wood-Pewee: Saratoga Spa SP 5/11; Vischer Ferry 5/17 (3)
Alder Flycatcher:
Five Rivers 5/17; Vischer Ferry 5/17 (2)
Willow
Flycatcher: Five Rivers 5/17; Hillsdale 5/17
Swainsons Thrush:
Five Rivers 5/17
Tennessee
Warbler: Pine Bush 5/12, 5/14; Ballston Spa 5/17 (2); Saratoga Spa SP 5/17
Bay-breasted
Warbler: Pine Bush 5/11, 5/12, 5/14, 5/16; Saratoga Spa SP 5/17
Wilsons Warbler:
Pine Bush 5/12, 5/16; Vischer Ferry 5/12; Five Rivers 5/17
Canada Warbler:
Vischer Ferry 5/16; Ballston Lake 5/17
Indigo Bunting:
Chatham 5/11
Thanks to Larry
Alden (Meadowdale), Mona Bearor (Saratoga Lake), Susan Beaudoin (Stillwater,
Pine Bush, Saratoga Lake), Lindsey Duval
(Saratoga Spa), Alan French (Glenville), Rich Guthrie (Saratoga Lake, Hudson
River), Ron Harrower (Saratoga Spa, Daketown Forest, Lake Desolation SF,
Saratoga Lake), John Hershey (Vischer
Ferry, Saratoga Lake), Fransje Holloway (Amsterdam), John Kent (Pine Bush,
Selkirk), Nancy Kern (Chatham, Saratoga Lake, Nutten Hooke, Hillsdale), Alan
Mapes (Saratoga Lake), Jeff Nadler (Fort Edward, Ballston Spa, Ballston Lake),
Ellen Pemrick (West Charlton), Rita Reed (East Hoosick), Zach
Schwartz-Weinstein (Pine Bush, Saratoga Lake, Five Rivers), Scott Stoner
(Shaker Heritage), Scott Varney (Salem),
and Tom Williams (Pine Bush)
