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Common Loon
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Green Heron
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
American Kestrel
Virginia Rail
Wilson's Snipe
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Cliff Swallow
SEDGE WREN
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Evening Grosbeak

Baltimore Oriole

- Transcript

hotline: Western Massachusetts
date: June 18, 2007
number: 1-781-259-8805 x2
to report: 1-781-259-8805 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 June 8, 2007.

One or 2 SEDGE WRENS have been discovered in a wet meadow in
South Amherst, along a private paved road off South West St,
near the Pollux Conservation Area.

At South Quabbin there were 17 HOODED MERGANSERS, a COMMON
MERGANSER, a COMMON LOON, 2 BARRED OWLS, 3 RUBY-
THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS, 3 ALDER FLYCATCHERS, 2 GOLDEN-CROWNED
KINGLETS, a PRAIRIE and a BLUE-WINGED WARBLER.

In Belchertown there were an AMERICAN and a LEAST BITTERN,
3 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, 3 RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS
a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, a BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, a PRAIRIE
WARBLER, and a TENNESSEE WARBLER.

A WORM-EATING WARBLER was on Mt Tom, a YELLOW-BILLED
CUCKOO in Southwick, and a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and ALDER
FLYCATCHER in Granville.

In Tyringham there were 3 COMMON MERGANSERS with 15-20 small
young, 2 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, a WILSON’S SNIPE, 2 YELLOW-
BILLED CUCKOOS, 3 RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS, an ALDER
and 4 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS, and 2 BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS.

Seen in Brookfield were a LEAST BITTERN, 4 VIRGINIA RAILS,
3 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, 6 ALDER FLYCATCHERS, 10 WILLOW
FLYCATCHERS, 20 MARSH WRENS, and 3 BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS.

An OLIVE SIDED FLYCATCHER and MOURNING WARBLER were on
October Mt in Washington, 4 CLIFF SWALLOWS were in Lee, and a
NORTHERN HARRIER, an AMERICAN KESTREL, an ALDER
FLYCATCHER, a SWAINSON’S THRUSH, and an EVENING GROSBEAK
in Windsor.

In Hawley there were 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, a BLACK-BILLED
CUCKOO, an AMERICAN BITTERN, 4 ALDER FLYCATCHERS, and 4
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.

Seen in Gardner were 12 HOODED MERGANSERS, an AMERICAN
BITTERN, 3 GREEN HERONS, a COMMON LOON, 2 BROAD-WINGED
HAWKS, 3 ALDER and 3 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS, a MARSH WREN, a
NASHVILLE WARBLER, and a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.

Thank you for calling

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