Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Dutchess County ,NY Weekend 5/30-6/1/08

 

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)