It was great fun to be out with the NYS Young Birders Club members on a dawn field trip up Whiteface Mountain on 5/29/16! We are so fortunate to have this club in NYS. A huge thanks to Carena Pooth and other adults who volunteer their time to make this a very active club. I believe one of the young birders will recap our field trip, but you can view some photos by visiting the NYSOA Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/nybirds/ . Many Gray Jays with juveniles visited us at Bloomingdale Bog - the look of excitement on the faces of the young birders as they fed the jays was priceless!
On a two-day tour with a birder from Washington DC on 5/27 & 5/28/16, we found 84 species by visiting Whiteface Mountain at dawn, River Road, Bloomingdale Bog, and the Spring Pond Bog complex (Essex and Franklin Counties). The most exciting moment for me was finding a Philadelphia Vireo nest that was nearly finished, ~65 feet high in an Aspen (photo on my Facebook page below). The male sang almost non-stop in the same tree as the female worked on the nest. It was tricky to photograph - the nest was high, there were lots of leaves, and the tree was swaying in the wind! Here is our list of birds: May 27, 2016 (71 species) Canada Goose Common Loon - 1 Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle - 2 adults Northern Harrier - male Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Mourning Dove Ruby-throated Hummingbird Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker - male at nest hole Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Gray Jay - 3 (2 juveniles!) Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee - 4 Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper - including one on Whiteface - that was the first one I've heard up that high! Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery Bicknell's Thrush - many Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Purple Finch White-winged Crossbill - 4 flew over us calling Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Also, a Porcupine and Snowshoe Hare on Whiteface! May 28, 2016 (Spring Pond Bog, 66 species) Canada Goose American Bittern Turkey Vulture Broad-winged Hawk Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher - 2 different locations Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo - 2 (watched one building its nest!) Red-eyed Vireo Gray Jay - 4 (3 juveniles!) Blue Jay Common Raven Tree Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee - 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush - many Black-and-white Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Purple Finch Red Crossbill - 3 flyover flocks Pine Siskin American Goldfinch I added many new photos to my Facebook page below. Joan Collins President, NYS Ornithological Association Editor, New York Birders Long Lake, NY (315) 244-7127 cell (518) 624-5528 home http://www.adirondackavianexpeditions.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AdirondackAvian -- 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/ --
