Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Spring Weekend Trip, June 11th-13th, Birding the Bashakill and the Shawangunks Valley

Leader Mike Yuan
+ 8 participants

From: Michael Yuan <mjyuan@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Jun 15, 2016 11:22 am
Subject: Brooklyn Bird Club Spring Weekend Trip report
Thanks everyone for a terrific weekend. So many birds!  So glad to share the experience of a region I love visiting. 

Special thanks to Tom, Bob, Heydi, and Paul for driving. Keeping the caravan intact was a major accomplishment!



Location(s):   Apollo Plaza; Bashakill State WMA; Blue Chip Farms; D & H Canal Linear Park; Days Inn Wurtsboro; Doodletown Rd.; Gumaer Falls Rd., Wurtsboro; Paradies Ln., Purple Martin colony; Port Orange Rd., Cuddebackville; River Road; Shawangunk Grasslands NWR ; Sterling Forest SP--Ironwood Drive and environs; Weston Rd., swamp; Wolf Brook MUA - Neversink Gorge 

116 species

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Wild Turkey
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Virginia Rail
Common Gallinule
Killdeer
American Woodcock
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Empidonax sp.
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
crow sp.
Common Raven
Northern Rough-winged Swallow--
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Cerulean Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Grasshopper Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Thanks,
Mike
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