- RBA
* Pennsylvania
* Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
* May 17, 2006
* PAEA0605.17
- Birds mentioned
VIRGINIA RAIL
SORA
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK
AMERICAN BITTERN
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
- Transcript
Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline
Date: May 17th at 9:00 PM
Phone Number: (610) 252-3455
To Report by Phone: Call (610) 252-3455, press the (*) key and leave your
message.
To Report by E-Mail: Send to becard@fast.net with "Birdline" in subject
heading.
Compiler: Dave DeReamus
You can visit our Website for information about the Lehigh Valley Audubon
Society at
http://www.lehigh.edu/~bcm0/lvas.html. Click on our new "BBoard" link if
you'd like to discuss local birding information and issues, offer or ask for
rides to field trips, or check on birding items for sale.
You can visit my Website for photos and information about Eastern PA Birding
at http://www.users.fast.net/~becard/index.html.
This is Dave DeReamus, for the Eastern PA Birdline, sponsored by the Lehigh
Valley Audubon Society, recorded on May 17th at 9:00 PM.
There will be a field trip to the Pocono Environmental Education Center
(PEEC) on May 20th. Meet at the Burger King parking lot at Wind Gap (at the
first stoplight east of the Route 33 exit along Route 512) at 7:00 AM. Trip
leader will be Terry Master.
Directions to many of the sites in this report can be found in the area's
birding guidebook, "Birds of the Lehigh Valley and Vicinity".
NOW FOR THE BIRDS!
Sightings from BEAR SWAMP, Northampton County included:
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 on 5/12 to at least 5/14
Hermit Thrush - 1 on 5/14
Canada Warbler - 1 on 5/14
Cerulean Warbler - 1 on 5/14.
Also Broad-winged Hawk, Black-billed Cuckoo, and Swamp Sparrow.
Sightings from the EAST BANGOR area, Northampton County included:
VIRGINIA RAIL - 5/13 (heard along School Road)
SORA - 5/13 (heard along School Road)
Purple Martins - 2 on 5/13.
Sightings from EAST BANGOR DAM, Northampton County included:
Osprey.
Sightings from the MARTINS CREEK ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVE (Tekening) area,
Northampton County included:
Canada Warbler - 1 on 5/14
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 on 5/13.
Also Common Merganser, Osprey, and Black-billed Cuckoo.
Sightings from the MARTINS CREEK area, Northampton County included:
At the Martins Creek Quarry:
Lesser Black-backed Gulls - 2 on 5/13
Double-crested Cormorants - 9 on 5/13.
Sightings from OLD ALLENTOWN ROAD (west of Wind Gap), Northampton County
included:
Bobolink - 1 on 5/14
Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 on 5/14.
Sightings from PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Northampton County included:
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/14
Also Yellow-throated Vireo.
Sightings from JACOBSBURG STATE PARK, Northampton County included:
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT - 1 on 5/13.
Sightings from the NAZARETH area, Northampton County included:
Semipalmated Plovers - 4 on 5/13 (along Christian Springs Road).
Sightings from the EASTON area, Northampton County included:
Peregrine Falcon - 1 on 5/11
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/11.
Sightings from WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Northampton County included:
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK - 1 on 5/13 (male)
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 on 5/12.
Also Black-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-throated Vireo, and White-crowned Sparrow.
Sightings from the GREEN POND area, Northampton County included:
Dunlin - 1 on 5/13 and 5/14
Semipalmated Plovers - 8 on 5/16.
Also Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs.
Sightings from the KATELLEN area, Northampton County included:
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/14
Kentucky Warbler - 1 on 5/14.
Also Black-billed Cuckoo.
Sightings from the KUNKLETOWN area, Monroe County included:
Bald Eagle - 1 reported on 5/14 and 5/15
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 on 5/13.
Sightings from the SLATINGTON area, Lehigh County included:
Bald Eagle - 1 reported on 5/14
Also Bank Swallow and Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
Sightings from the PALMERTON area, Carbon County included:
Peregrine Falcon - 1 reported on 5/14.
Sightings from LAKE NOCKAMIXON, Bucks County included:
AMERICAN BITTERN - 1 on 5/13
VIRGINIA RAIL - 1 on 5/13
Bald Eagle - 1 on 5/13
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER - 1 on 5/13
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/13
Hooded Warblers - 2 on 5/13
Kentucky Warblers - 3 on 5/13
Worm-eating Warblers - 11 on 5/13
Bobolink - 1 on 5/13.
Also Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Red-shouldered Hawk, Greater
Yellowlegs, Ring-billed Gull, Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, Barred
Owl, Common Nighthawk, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern
Wood-Pewee, White-eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, and Swamp Sparrow.
Other birds and new arrivals reported from several sites this past week
included Green Heron, Wood Duck, Spotted, Solitary, and Least Sandpiper,
Cooper's Hawk, Wild Turkey, Hairy Woodpecker, Ruby-throated Hummingbird,
Eastern Kingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Brown
Thrasher, Veery, Wood Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed and Warbling Vireo,
Indigo Bunting, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore and Orchard Oriole,
Scarlet Tanager, and warblers that included Pine, Palm, Yellow,
Yellow-rumped, Prairie, Nashville, Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia,
Blackburnian, Black-and-white, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green,
Ovenbird, Northern Parula, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, and
Northern and Louisiana Waterthrush.
- End transcript
* Pennsylvania
* Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
* May 17, 2006
* PAEA0605.17
- Birds mentioned
VIRGINIA RAIL
SORA
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK
AMERICAN BITTERN
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
- Transcript
Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline
Date: May 17th at 9:00 PM
Phone Number: (610) 252-3455
To Report by Phone: Call (610) 252-3455, press the (*) key and leave your
message.
To Report by E-Mail: Send to becard@fast.net with "Birdline" in subject
heading.
Compiler: Dave DeReamus
You can visit our Website for information about the Lehigh Valley Audubon
Society at
http://www.lehigh.edu/~bcm0/lvas.html. Click on our new "BBoard" link if
you'd like to discuss local birding information and issues, offer or ask for
rides to field trips, or check on birding items for sale.
You can visit my Website for photos and information about Eastern PA Birding
at http://www.users.fast.net/~becard/index.html.
This is Dave DeReamus, for the Eastern PA Birdline, sponsored by the Lehigh
Valley Audubon Society, recorded on May 17th at 9:00 PM.
There will be a field trip to the Pocono Environmental Education Center
(PEEC) on May 20th. Meet at the Burger King parking lot at Wind Gap (at the
first stoplight east of the Route 33 exit along Route 512) at 7:00 AM. Trip
leader will be Terry Master.
Directions to many of the sites in this report can be found in the area's
birding guidebook, "Birds of the Lehigh Valley and Vicinity".
NOW FOR THE BIRDS!
Sightings from BEAR SWAMP, Northampton County included:
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 on 5/12 to at least 5/14
Hermit Thrush - 1 on 5/14
Canada Warbler - 1 on 5/14
Cerulean Warbler - 1 on 5/14.
Also Broad-winged Hawk, Black-billed Cuckoo, and Swamp Sparrow.
Sightings from the EAST BANGOR area, Northampton County included:
VIRGINIA RAIL - 5/13 (heard along School Road)
SORA - 5/13 (heard along School Road)
Purple Martins - 2 on 5/13.
Sightings from EAST BANGOR DAM, Northampton County included:
Osprey.
Sightings from the MARTINS CREEK ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVE (Tekening) area,
Northampton County included:
Canada Warbler - 1 on 5/14
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 on 5/13.
Also Common Merganser, Osprey, and Black-billed Cuckoo.
Sightings from the MARTINS CREEK area, Northampton County included:
At the Martins Creek Quarry:
Lesser Black-backed Gulls - 2 on 5/13
Double-crested Cormorants - 9 on 5/13.
Sightings from OLD ALLENTOWN ROAD (west of Wind Gap), Northampton County
included:
Bobolink - 1 on 5/14
Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 on 5/14.
Sightings from PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Northampton County included:
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/14
Also Yellow-throated Vireo.
Sightings from JACOBSBURG STATE PARK, Northampton County included:
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT - 1 on 5/13.
Sightings from the NAZARETH area, Northampton County included:
Semipalmated Plovers - 4 on 5/13 (along Christian Springs Road).
Sightings from the EASTON area, Northampton County included:
Peregrine Falcon - 1 on 5/11
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/11.
Sightings from WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Northampton County included:
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK - 1 on 5/13 (male)
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 on 5/12.
Also Black-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-throated Vireo, and White-crowned Sparrow.
Sightings from the GREEN POND area, Northampton County included:
Dunlin - 1 on 5/13 and 5/14
Semipalmated Plovers - 8 on 5/16.
Also Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs.
Sightings from the KATELLEN area, Northampton County included:
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/14
Kentucky Warbler - 1 on 5/14.
Also Black-billed Cuckoo.
Sightings from the KUNKLETOWN area, Monroe County included:
Bald Eagle - 1 reported on 5/14 and 5/15
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 on 5/13.
Sightings from the SLATINGTON area, Lehigh County included:
Bald Eagle - 1 reported on 5/14
Also Bank Swallow and Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
Sightings from the PALMERTON area, Carbon County included:
Peregrine Falcon - 1 reported on 5/14.
Sightings from LAKE NOCKAMIXON, Bucks County included:
AMERICAN BITTERN - 1 on 5/13
VIRGINIA RAIL - 1 on 5/13
Bald Eagle - 1 on 5/13
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER - 1 on 5/13
Swainson's Thrush - 1 on 5/13
Hooded Warblers - 2 on 5/13
Kentucky Warblers - 3 on 5/13
Worm-eating Warblers - 11 on 5/13
Bobolink - 1 on 5/13.
Also Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Red-shouldered Hawk, Greater
Yellowlegs, Ring-billed Gull, Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, Barred
Owl, Common Nighthawk, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern
Wood-Pewee, White-eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, and Swamp Sparrow.
Other birds and new arrivals reported from several sites this past week
included Green Heron, Wood Duck, Spotted, Solitary, and Least Sandpiper,
Cooper's Hawk, Wild Turkey, Hairy Woodpecker, Ruby-throated Hummingbird,
Eastern Kingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Brown
Thrasher, Veery, Wood Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed and Warbling Vireo,
Indigo Bunting, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore and Orchard Oriole,
Scarlet Tanager, and warblers that included Pine, Palm, Yellow,
Yellow-rumped, Prairie, Nashville, Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia,
Blackburnian, Black-and-white, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green,
Ovenbird, Northern Parula, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, and
Northern and Louisiana Waterthrush.
- End transcript