Location: Monkey Run--SE loop (Monkey Run Road to river to 13 and back along RR tracks). Observation date: 4/3/10 Notes: A great day with many new arrivals for me. Lots of birds flying overhead (flickers, robins, blackbirds) but mostly in singles. Highlights included VESPER SPARROW (!!), HERMIT THRUSH, PINE WARBLER (2), EASTERN TOWHEE and CHIPPING SPARROW. Also high counts of YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (7), YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER (14), WINTER WREN (10), SONG SPARROW (31). Number of species: 48
Canada Goose 3 Flyovers. Wood Duck 5 Mallard 7 Common Merganser 4 Ruffed Grouse 3 All drumming. Heard only. Great Blue Heron 5 Flyovers. 3 and 2. Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Adult male hunting. Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 2 Ring-billed Gull 2 Flyovers. Mourning Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 9 7 seen (all adult males). Others heard. Downy Woodpecker 8 Included one high flyover presumed migrant. Hairy Woodpecker 8 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 14 **Fairly high count for here. Mostly flyovers of migrants. 4 calling. Pileated Woodpecker 3 Eastern Phoebe 8 Blue Jay 14 American Crow 10 Tree Swallow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 49 Tufted Titmouse 7 Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Brown Creeper 7 Winter Wren (Eastern) 10 Exact count. None singing. All but one detected by calls. Golden-crowned Kinglet 6 Hermit Thrush 1 Near river. Flushed from trail and gave chup notes. American Robin 73 European Starling 9 Cedar Waxwing 70 Pine Warbler 2 Two singing males. One singing on north side of river, the other in the pine plantation on the northwest side (but still south of the river). First of year for me. Eastern Towhee 1 First of year for me. Chipping Sparrow 1 Along old RR grade. First of year for me. Vesper Sparrow 1 **Near mega for here! This bird was with a group of Song Sparrows along the railroad tracks. I first heard the flight call, and then saw it perched! Fox Sparrow (Red) 2 Both singing. Not seen. Song Sparrow 31 Exact count. White-throated Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 12 Northern Cardinal 17 Red-winged Blackbird 12 Rusty Blackbird 1 Flyover calling. Common Grackle 7 Brown-headed Cowbird 18 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 7 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
