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* July 17, 2006
* MAWE0607.17
- Birds mentioned
Double-crested Cormorant
Green Heron
Wood Duck
Hooded Merganser
Northern Goshawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Ruffed Grouse
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Long-eared Owl
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Blue-winged Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Scarlet Tanager
Field Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
Orchard Oriole
Purple Finch
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Western Massachusetts
date: July 17, 2006
number: 1-888-224-6444 x2
to report: 1-888-224-6444 x2 (leave message after report)
compiler: Seth Kellogg, skhawk@comcast.net, sponsored by MA Audubon
transcriber: Trudy Tynan, ttynan@sprynet.com
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
This is the Western Voice of Audubon for Monday July 17, 2006
A calling LONG-EARED OWL, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, and an ALDER FLYCATCHER were
reported from Stockbridge.
Young ORCHARD ORIOLES were seen in Hadley and Northampton, and a YELLOW-BILLED
CUCKOO was heard in Amherst.
A GREEN HERON, 4 LEAST SANDPIPERS, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER, and a SPOTTED
SANDPIPER were found in Chicopee State Park, 18 WOOD DUCKS were in Longmeadow,
and 2 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were calling in Southwick
reported in Belchertown were a RUFFED GROUSE, 5 EASTERN KINGBIRDS, a
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, a WINTER WREN, a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, a BROWN
THRASHER, a BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, and a FIELD SPARROW.
A DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, 7 EASTERN WOOD PEWEES, 3 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS, a
BROWN CREEPER, 3 PRAIRIE WARBLERS, 6 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS, and 9 SCARLET
TANAGERS were seen in the Quabbin Park area of the Quabbin Reservoir..
A walk in Plainfield produced a HOODED MERGANSER, 3 ALDER FLYCATCHERS, a BROWN
CREEPER, 3 WINTER WRENS, 12 PURPLE FINCHES and 3 EVENING GROSBEAKS.
Noted during a morning tour of Hawley were a NORTHERN GOSHAWK, a BROAD-WINGED
HAWK, a RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, 4 ALDER FLYCATCHERS, 22 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS,
4 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, 2 BROWN CREEPERS, 4 WINTER WRENS, 2 GOLDEN-CROWNED
KINGLETS, 3 SWAINSON’S THRUSH, 12 MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH,
11 INDIGO BUNTINGS, 7 PURPLE FINCHES, and 4 EVENING GROSBEAKS.
Seen in the drained Turners Falls canal were a GREEN HERON, 4 LEAST
SANDPIPERS, and 2 KILLDEER.
Thank you for calling
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