Saturday, 01 May 2010 Great Vly WMA and Esopus Bend Nature Preserve
Sixteen participants encountered 55 bird species during today's joint John Burroughs Natural History Society / Esopus Creek Conservancy wildlife walk in the Town of Saugerties. Not the anticipated big fallout, but some nice diversity for the first day of May that included several first-of-season overnight arrivals. Returning to my Saugerties yard, I heard my first Baltimore Oriole of the season, and a pair of Catbirds have taken up residence in their traditional hedgerow. Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck Mallard Wild Turkey Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Solitary Sandpiper Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird Blue-winged Warbler Yellow Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Sparrow Steve M. Chorvas Saugerties, NY [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
