Leader: Peter Dorosh
9 members
Vicinity of Rhinebeck and Red Hook,New York
May 30, 2008: Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center; Vassar College Farm; Poet's Walk Park
May 31, 2008: Thompson Pond/Stissing Mountain Preserve; Audubon Buttercup Farm; private farm (site 1); Audubon Buttercup Farm (site 2)
June 1, 2008: Tivoli Bays Wildlife Management Area (Cruger Island access closed); Montgomery Place; Burger Hill (near Rhinebeck)
BIRDS (89 species)
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Virginia Rail
Killdeer
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Black-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Wood Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great-crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
BUTTERFLIES & SKIPPERS
Black Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Clouded Sulphur (White form seen at Stony Kill)
Eastern-tailed Blue
Pearl Crescent
Eastern Comma
Mourning Cloak (Berger Hill)
Viceroy
Little Wood Satyr
Common Ringlet
Monarch
Silver-spotted Skipper
Duskywing sp.
Zabulon Skipper
ODONATES
Fragile Forktail
Eastern Forktail
Common Green Darner
Common Baskettail
Eastern Pondhawk
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
MAMMALS
Eastern Chipmunk
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Woodchuck
Eastern Cottontail
Vole sp.
Muskrat
White-tailed Deer
Beaver (beaver lodges seen)
HERPS
Eastern Painted Turtle
American Toad
Gray Tree Frog (heard)
Green Frog (heard)