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For our first report: Fort Edward 3/3/99 4:20pm - 6:00pm 2 short-eared owls - both on Plum Road about 4:20pm 14 northern harriers - most on Fitzpatrick 5-5:30pm 1 kestrel - Cary Road various places

Just to get the ball rolling, here's my report for the day: No owls or harriers, but, well, ... WE GOT GRACKLES! The first COMMON GRACKLES invaded our feeder today. Oh, happy day! Lou

This is not a transcription of the Birdline tape. It is summary of some of the sightings that were called in to birdline during the past week. Please call the birdline (518-439-8080) for the full

Unfortunately, no interesting birds to report; just a reply so you know I've tried this out. I'll be looking forward to reading everyone's reports in the future. Good birding, Jackie B.

Saratoga Springs: A White-crowned Sparrow was in my yard on the morning of 6 March. The average arrival date in Region 8 for this species is 20

We saw hundreds of Robins flying north over the Mohawk toward Vischer Ferry and onward at 5:30 PM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eGroup home:

Hey! I think I may have actually gotten into this thing! I don't know what happened before, but it appears that I had gotten in to two other eGroups, but not into HMBirds. I was in one called

I was out testing my new scope today and saw hooded and common mergansers on the Mohawk River and the crows seem to have taken the place of the starlings at the power plant across from the

This is a second-hand report (message from Kay & George taken by Bob): 5 longspurs in Ft Edward on East Rd today (March

This is not a transcription of the Birdline tape. It is summary of some of the sightings that were called in to birdline during the past week. Please call the birdline (518-439-8080) for the full

Fort Edward - Friday afternoon 3/12/99 4-5pm 8 red-tailed hawk, 16 rough-legged hawks, 6 unidentified buteos, 71 horned larks, 1 eastern bluebird, 11 SHORT-EARED OWLS (on Fitzpatrick), 1 northern

This is a second-hand report (phone message from Monty): There was a snowy owl at Fort Edward near the intersection of Rte 197 and Swamp Rd on Wednesday, March

Saturday, 3/13/99 Gansevoort: American ketrel Stone Bridge Rd (T of Northumberland): 29 red-tailed hawks, 2 rough-legged hwak, 2 unidentified buteos Rte 113 (Washington county) south of

3/14 99 Fort Miller - 2 Northern Pintail, 2 Greater Scaup, 4 Canvasback, C Goldeneye, 250 Snow Geese flew over going west, 500 Canada Geese. Fort Edward - several Rough-legged Hawks and N Harriers, H

I had a BROWN CREEPER outside my window this afternoon. I rarely see them here in my yard. The last one in my BIRDNOTE log was on

I received info that might be of interest to you all. There is a website (Cornell) on which you can submit bird sightings for the Important Bird Areas. Those in our region are: Broadalbin Tree

This is my 3rd attempt at posting, but I think I have it right this time. We'll find out soon. This Sunday, I saw a dark morph and a light morph Rough-legged Hawk in adjacent trees on Millers Corners

Just for your information - we have 8 members signed up and 7 of them have successfully posted! I think we have most of the bugs straightened out now. I can make the list of members viewable only to

My Bird Monitor (*) was working great last night! Every time I rolled over (or something), I heard calls from migrating flocks, mostly of Geese. One time, it was a different call, which I thought