Still some snow on the ground and most lakes are still iced over, but beginning to open up. Some species from the past week:
4/6/17 Long Lake (Hamilton Co.) and Tupper Lake (Franklin Co.) Wood Duck - pair along the Tupper Lake causeway Amer. Black Duck - pair along the Tupper Lake causeway Green-winged Teal - pair along the Tupper Lake causeway Ring-necked Duck - many on Tupper Lake Bufflehead - one male on a small piece of open water at the inlet of Little Tupper Lake Hooded Merganser - everywhere there is open water! Common Merganser - everywhere there is open water! Turkey Vulture - several over Tupper Lake Bald Eagle - adult flying over Simon Pond in Tupper Lake Barred Owl - heard on the baby monitor during the night - we have been hearing them every night for the past couple weeks Amer. Kestrel - perched in the marsh along the Tupper Lake causeway Gray Jay - 3 (1 along Route 30, 1 at the Round Lake Trailhead, and 1 at Sabattis Bog - all in Long Lake) Boreal Chickadee - 2 vocalizing along Route 30 in Long Lake as I photographed a singing Fox Sparrow! Fox Sparrow - 2 (1 singing outside our home early this morning and another one singing along Route 30 in Long Lake where I feed Gray Jays) Song Sparrow - everywhere and singing Dark-eyed Junco - numbers swelled outside our home today - also singing I have not yet spotted the Sandhill Cranes in Tupper Lake. 4/5/17 Long Lake and Tupper Lake Mostly the same waterfowl, but also a Common Goldeneye pair on the little patch of open water at the Little Tupper Lake inlet Killdeer - pair mating along the drive into the Tupper Lake Waterfront Park! Turkey Vulture - 1 Tupper Lake, 2 in Long Lake Bald Eagle - 4 different birds in Tupper Lake (2 adults) Barred Owl Gray Jay - 6 (groups of 1, 2, and 3 along Sabattis Circle Road) Golden-crowned Kinglet - many! Pine Siskin - vocalizing outside our house Amer. Tree Sparrow - 1 at a Long Lake feeder Song Sparrow - many along all the roads and lots of singing in Tupper Lake Dark-eyed Junco - many singing 4/4/17 American Robins began singing outside our home! 4/3/17 Long Lake Lots of waterfowl on Long Lake including Ring-necked Ducks Black-backed Woodpecker - male foraging along Sabattis Circle Road near the Round Lake Trailhead Gray Jay - 12! (3 along Route 30, 3 near the inlet of Little Tupper Lake, 2 at the Round Lake Trailhead, and 4 at Sabattis Bog) Golden-crowned Kinglet - many and some were singing (most left this year for the winter and they appear to be back!) 4/1/17 Long Lake Wild Turkey -Wild Turkeys were mating outside our home! Boreal Chickadee - 1 along Route 30 in Long Lake River Otters - 4! (1 on Long Lake, 1 on Little Tupper Lake, and 2 on the inlet of Round Lake) I posted a video to my Facebook page below. 3/30/17 Long Lake, Tupper Lake, and Newcomb (Essex Co.) Turkey Vulture - 2 in Tupper Lake Cooper's Hawk - along the Round Lake Trail in Long Lake Northern Shrike - along Route 30 at a marshy location about 3 miles south of the Tupper Lake boat launch (we saw it on 3/26/17 too) Gray Jay - 5 at 3 locations in Long Lake Boreal Chickadee - along Route 28N in Newcomb Eastern Bluebird - Newcomb Pine Siskin - at a feeder in Newcomb Evening Grosbeak - flock at a feeder in Newcomb Song Sparrow - 2 in Newcomb Dark-eyed Junco - singing 3 River Otters on Long Lake! 3/29/17 - Common Goldeneye pair on Long Lake; I went owling during the night - the only owl found was a dead Barred Owl on Route 30 in Long Lake. I also observed a Bobcat. 3/27/17 - Snow Bunting flock in Long Lake; Amer. Tree Sparrows began moving through 3/26/17 - Female Black-backed Woodpecker at Sabattis Bog; Northern Shrike along Route 30 in Tupper Lake (same location as above) 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.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
