Saratoga Spa SP, Saratoga, New York, US
May 17, 2017 7:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.2 mile(s)
Comments: Parked in Carlsbad Picnic area lot and saw the Lindseymobile. Found her near old landfill with binoculars on a Tennessee Warbler. It was a good start. She was heading out so I continued down far trail. Many warblers way up high, bringing on warbler neck. Was worth it!
42 species

Canada Goose 8
Wild Turkey 2
Great Blue Heron 2 Flew over
Mourning Dove 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 4
Common Raven 1
Tree Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 1
House Wren 2
Carolina Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 2
Veery 2
Wood Thrush 2
American Robin 7
Gray Catbird 5
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 3
American Redstart 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Bay-breasted Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 14
Chipping Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 4
Scarlet Tanager 4
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 8
Baltimore Oriole 2

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Perhaps most of you already see them in your travels, but I was a little unnerved this morning just before 10AM by a coyote at Ann Lee Pond. Thankfully it pounced on some animal bigger than a rabbit with reddish fur that kept it busy. I guess when out in the "wild" it is not unexpected to come upon wild animals, but I sure wouldn't want to be staring at a bird and turn around to find a coyote right next to me.

The coyote was so startling that it made me forget about the phantom of the opera Goose in the pond. I put it under Canada Goose, but maybe it is a hybrid, photos on eBird. 

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36941304

Liz Curley

Cohoes

Saratoga County-Two singing Tennessee warblers up high along Kayakdeross Creek in Ballston Spa at 1PM along Rock City Road.  At Ballston Lake fishing dock area, multiple singing Northern Waterthrush and a  visual of a non-singing Canada Warbler. The Tennessees and waterthrush are certainly high volume singers.

Jeff Nadler

cathy graichen and I spent and hour or so at the south end of saratoga lake this morning. we counted 20 bonaparte's gulls on the docks out in front of brown's beach, including several adults in full alternate plumage. But, no little gull was present among them.

gregg recer

malta

I bucked the morning commuter traffic this morning in hopes of finding at least some of the  Pine Bush warblers Zach reported, but no such luck. They were  having a burn this morning, and I was turned away at the parking lot. I then tried the trail off of Columbia Circle where all the warblers were last spring. No luck there either, as there was a construction crew with bulldozers where the trail used to be. I did manage to get on the red trail off of Pitch Pine Rd, and while most of what I saw and heard was to be expected, I did see and hear two male ORCHARD ORIOLES. They were located at the intersection of the red and white trails.

On the way home, I stopped near the mailboxes at the beginning of Stony Point Rd hoping to find the Little Gulls. I was out of town when they were found literally two minutes from my house. While I did see several Bonaparte's Gulls, and saw some that looked smaller, they were too far away to identify. Much easier to pick out was a single BLACK TERN. Closer to the shore, I was surprised to see three Buffleheads still hanging around.

Susan Beaudoin

Stillwater

I walked the 3.5 mile western loop at Vischer Ferry Preserve starting at 6:30 am.  Some FOY's for me: 1 Black-billed Cuckoo, 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee, 2 Alder Flycatcher, 1 Willow Flycatcher, 1 Blackpoll Warbler. It's great to hear familiar songs again.  Others worthy of mention: Virginia Rail, Great Crested Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Marsh Wren, Wood Thrush, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Scarlet Tanager.  Flycatchers were well-represented with 3 of the 4 regularly occurring Empids in our area and 7 of the 9 flycatchers for Region 8. 

John H.

Raptor Fest - May 20, 2017 : 8:00am - 4:00pm

Heard calling on Luther Rd in the town of Stillwater.

Susan Beaudoin

Stillwater

I stopped at Vischer Ferry Preserve early around 6 am and walked for about 45 minutes.  I didn't find very much of interest so I left and headed for the Pine Bush where we had a pretty good chorus of warblers.  But, I did spot a Canada Warbler (at VFP) by using Tom W.'s mnemonic which ends with "time for TV".  Other birds of interest include several chebek-ing Least Flycatchers, a pumping American Bittern in the back pond, and a Black-throated Green Warbler. 

John H.