6/10/13 Roosevelt Truck Trail (Minerva in Essex Co.)
I took a late day hike on the beginning of the Roosevelt Truck Trail and found a male Black-backed Woodpecker, a pair of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers carrying food, a vocal Boreal Chickadee, a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, and a Swainsons Thrush among other expected boreal habitat species. A Broad-winged Hawk vocalized near the railroad bed (1/3 of a mile from the Roosevelt Truck Trail). 6/7/13 to 6/9/13 9th Annual Adirondack Birding Festival Blog post at: http://www.adirondackavianexpeditions.com/boreal-birds/9th-annual-adirondack -birding-festival 6/6/13 Northville-Placid Trail (S) in Long Lake (Hamilton Co.) Bill Labes and I took a walk on the N-P Trail and found a vocal Black-backed Woodpecker (in the area where I observed mating in early May). We found many warblers and beautiful wildflowers including Pink Ladys Slippers (photo at: http://www.facebook.com/AdirondackAvian ). 6/5/13 Dawn Tour up Whiteface Mountain (Essex Co.) Blog post at: http://www.adirondackavianexpeditions.com/boreal-birds/a-recent-dawn-tour-up -whiteface-mountain 5/31/13 Lake Pleasant (south of Indian Lake in Hamilton Co.) I found several Philadelphia Vireos in an area where I used to tally one each year during my old BBS route. The area is about ½ mile north of the bridge over the Indian Lake Lewey Lake intersection to 2 miles north of this location. I had beautiful, long scope views of a bird on the west side of Route 30 before it flew to the east side along Indian Lake. The birds were found in second growth aspens and beech trees. I found an Olive-sided Flycatcher on the Perkins Clearing Road at a wetland over 6.5 miles in (past Sled Harbor). Joan Collins Long Lake, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
