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Subject: [PABIRDS] Buff-breasted and Baird's Sandpiper - Northampton
County
From: Dave DeReamus <becard(AT)FAST.NET>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 2:56am
Hi all,
Both the BUFF-BREASTED and the BAIRD'S SANDPIPER continued at the
Hanoverville Road Retention Ponds as of 5:15 PM on Thursday, the 16th. Both
birds preferred the center grassy area of the East Pond although they were
also seen along and on the grassy bank along Hanoverville Road (near the
white piping).
Other birds present included several Killdeer, Lesser Yellowlegs, about 20
Least Sandpipers, a Horned Lark, and a Savannah Sparrow.
With the remnants of Ivan approaching, I'd doubt that these birds are going
anywhere during the next few days.
To reach this spot, from the Route 512 exit of Route 22 (north of
Bethlehem), head north on Route 512 for about a mile and turn left at a
stoplight (at the Golden View Diner) onto Hanoverville Road. Go about a
quarter-mile on Hanoverville Road and turn right onto Harriett Lane. Park
along the beginning of Harriett Lane and scan the two retention ponds on
either side of the road.
Good Birding,
Dave DeReamus
Compiler of the 'Eastern PA Birdline'
Easton, PA
becard(AT)fast.net
Eastern PA Birding Website: http://www.users.fast.net/~becard/index.html
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Subject: Re: [PABIRDS] Hawk Mountain
From: "Carmen T. Santasania" <CTSANTASANIA(AT)CS.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 5:28am
In a message dated 9/16/2004 11:30:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dstrizzi(AT)ADELPHIA.NET writes:
> I thought I saved some information about Hawk Mountain -- where it is,
> how to get there, its history, etc. -- but I can't find it. Could someone
> please tell me about this place? Thanks.
Dave,
See http://www.hawkmountain.org/default.shtml.
Best regards,
Carmen T. Santasania
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Warblers!!! Emmaus, Lehigh County
From: Kathy <pabirder(AT)PPLPLC.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 9:59am
Not having had time to get out for the fall migration I was thrilled with my
morning experience. Sitting in an upstairs room with open windows I heard
twittering...not expecting much other than the usual yardbirds I went to the
window and there the weeping cherry right next to the house was filled with
warblers.. I couldn't see all because of the heavy foliage but caught sight
of Nashville, Northern Parula, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Red-start plus
Cardinals, and a Downy Woodpecker. No need for binoculars they were
literally "in my face".
Kathy Stagl
Emmaus, Pa
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Subject: [PABIRDS] robin roost count Chester County
From: "Dudley, Adam J" <Adam.Dudley(AT)ASTRAZENECA.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 11:16am
Dear All, this is my first post to PA birds. Over the last 2 months a large
bird roost of various species, but primarily
robins, has built up in the trees in my back yard. (I live about 1 mile
North of the DE border near Kennett Square, Chester County, PA). Last night
I decided to sit
out on my deck and attempt to count numbers of robins roosting as well as
other birds that I saw in my yard. I started at 6:15pm and continued until
dark which was at about 7:15. I saw 19 species in total, including 2
nighthawks flying over my house for about 20 minutes (full species list and
count below). Amazingly, my final robin count came to 1704! I suspect the
error on this count is large, both due to re-counts and missed birds since
they would tend to arrive in large flocks. The next most numerous bird
roosting was cedar waxwing, with over 200 birds (I din't attempt to
accurately count these), and then mourning dove. Best bird of the evening,
and most unexpected, was a single female merlin which buzzed the robins
feeding on my lawn at about 6:45pm and headed off strongly to the west.
After dark, 2 great horned owls showed up, as has been their habit for the
last week or so, with one
bird sitting on the chimney of the house next door for a few minutes! I have
been seeing these birds near my house since I moved there in May.
Catbird - 4
Blue jay - 7
Cardinal - 2
House finch -13
Mourning dove - 35
Goldfinch - 4
Red-headed woodpecker - 1
Red-winged blackbird - 1
Common yellowthroat - 2
Chimney swift - 17
Nighthawk - 2
Towhee - 1
Song sparrow - 2
Mockingbird - 2
Waxwing - 200
mallard - 3
canada goose - 2
merlin - 1F
Great Horned owl - 2
American Robin - 1704
All in all a most enjoyable evening.
Good birding!
Adam
Adam Dudley
Kennett Square
Chester County
Pennsylvania
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Subject: Re: [PABIRDS] Leaving up hummingbird feeders
From: "Wiltraut, Richard E" <rwiltraut(AT)STATE.PA.US>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 2:59pm
It's rather late in the season to be posting this and Arlene is more qualified
to talk about this than I am, but it should be pointed out that although leaving
feeders up into November will attract stray hummingbirds from the west, ideally
people should create good hummingbird habitat in their yard and plant a lot of
late blooming sages such as Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans). Many late hummers
are attracted to late blooming flowers as much if not more so than feeders. Of
the 20 or so Selasphorus hummingbirds I've seen in PA and NJ over the last ten
years or so, almost all of them showed up where there were late blooming
flowers, especially Pineapple Sage. The Rufous Hummingbird that showed up in my
yard when I lived in Nazareth came in after a pot of Lady In Red Sage (S.
coccinea) that was still blooming in November. The Calliope that showed up near
Philadelphia was in a yard full of late blooming flowers including Pineapple
Sage and Autumn Sage (S. greggi). The two Calliopes in New York showed up in a
garden full of Purple Majesty Sage (S. guarantica). A Calliope that showed up
in New Jersey was first discovered when it flew up to a pot of Purple Majesty
Sage that a man was carrying as he was moving it indoors on a cold evening!
Well Sweep Herb Farm in Port Murray, NJ has a nice selection of sages and I have
found most of the sages I mentioned a local garden centers. S. coccinea (Lady
In Red) which also comes in a pink variety, produces tons of seeds which will
reseed. I (and I believe Arlene does too) collect the seeds and replant them
the following spring.
I'm sure Arlene could suggest many more varieties. I've also seen late hummers
show up in yards that were full of bright red Christmas ornaments, especially
bows!
Rick Wiltraut, EES
Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center
835 Jacobsburg Road
Wind Gap, PA 18091-9781
(610) 746-2810
(610) 746-2804 (fax)
rwiltraut(AT)state.pa.us
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Pinchot Park/York County
From: RKoury123(AT)AOL.COM
Date: 17 Sep 2004 4:28pm
Hi Everyone,
I went to Pinchot Park this morning in hopes of seeing some shorebirds as the
water level of the lake is low. Unfortunately, the only shorebird was a
Killdeer! However, I did find some interesting birds, including a
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. Also, there were two Red-shouldered Hawks hunting
out on the mud - I saw one catch and eat a crayfish. Other highlights:
Great Blue Heron - 6
Great Egret - 11
Green Heron - 3
Osprey - 1
American Wigeon - 1
Wood Duck - 3
Blue-winged Teal - 14
Black Duck - 1
Warbling Vireo - 1
Northern Parula - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 6
Black-thr. Green Warbler - 4
Black-thr. Blue Warbler - 2
Black and White Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 2
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1
Good Birding,
Ramsay Koury
Camp Hill
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Subject: Re: [PABIRDS] Leaving up hummingbird feeders
From: Ann Mease Bodling <thistlebrook(AT)JUNO.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 5:05pm
Hi all,
Thanks, Rick for the encouragement to look into other sages. I just read an
article the other day about many different species and varieties that are
available and now my interest is peaked even further.
Regarding s. coccinea re-seeding.. I have enjoyed a new late summer/fall crop
of both the red and the pink from seed that fell from last year's flowers. I am
not sure why it took until late summer for some of them to germinate but I am
rewarded with a beautiful and vigorous crop of red and pink salvias where some
of my other summer flowers are fading and ready to come out. I ordered some
seed of s.coccinea species from Seeds of Change last spring and started them
indoors and they seem to be much taller than the 'Lady in Red' variety. I
mistakenly planted them beneath a young crabapple and they are growing up
through the branches. It does make a lovely scene though, with the red
crabapples, red salvia flowers and the newly yellowing crabapple leaves and the
hummingbirds don't mind the crowding. They like to sit in the tree and feed
from the flowers.
As has been stated several times here of late, in my yard too, the
hummingbirds are much more interested in the flowers than the feeders. Does
anyone know of any information about whether something changes in the flower
nectar in the late summer and fall that would attract the hummers more than the
feeders do? They were happy to be feeding from both flowers and feeders earlier
in the summer but that has changed even though some of the flowers do not appear
to be as healthy as earlier in the season.. zinnias, for instance.
Always something new to learn, it seems..
Ann Mease Bodling
Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co
Thistlebrook(AT)juno.com
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Heinz Refuge to host first "Cradle of Birding"
Festival
From: Leonard Hess <lnlhess(AT)LHTC.NET>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 7:11pm
EP Update ArticleSorry for the late notice, but just found this on the DEP
Update message posted yesterday.
The Festival is Saturday, Sept. 18.
Len Hess
Stahlstown, PA
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Len Hess has sent you an Environmental Protection Update article. Please click
on the below link to read the article.
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/newsletter/?NewsletterArticleID=9332
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Blue Marsh, Berks County
From: Joan Silagy <bnjsil(AT)TALON.NET>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 7:36pm
On my early morning walk at Blue Marsh I saw many Gray Catbirds and Wood
Thrush feeding on the red berries of the Spice Bushes. Also saw Eastern
Towhees, Brown Thrashers and large mixed flocks of Eastern Bluebirds,
Chipping Sparrows and House Finches. Easily a hundred or more Chipping
Sparrows. In the field at the Dry Brooks Boat Launch the Bobolinks are
still there and so are the immature Indigo Buntings and hundreds of
American Goldfinch.
My search for shorebirds at Blue Marsh has yielded nothing. Later this AM
I went to a local shopping mall and watched as a flock of 30 or more
Killdeer came in and landed on the flat roof of the mall, followed shortly
by another 12 Killdeer. Perhaps we are looking in the wrong places for the
shorebirds and maybe the right habitat is on these flat roofs.
As Arlene and Rick suggested, planting a hummingbird garden is the best way
to attract hummingbirds and I'm still getting hummingbirds at my many
flowers. They love the Salvia
guaraitca and it is one of their favorites. I was fortunate enough to
winter my plant over and it is huge this year. I'm hoping to winter it
over again this year. They also love all the Lady in Red Salvia that I
have planted. Unfortunately they never go to my feeders and all I do is
change the sugar water every few days. When I had the selasphorus hummer
two years ago, it never went to the feeder but fed on the flowers all the
time.
Joan Silagy and Sidney
Leesport, PA
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Subject: [PABIRDS] HSR: Rose Tree Park (17 Sep 2004) 4 Raptors
From: reports(AT)HAWKCOUNT.ORG
Date: 17 Sep 2004 7:38pm
Rose Tree Park Hawkwatch, Media, PA
Pennsylvania, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 17, 2004
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Turkey Vulture 1 7 7
Black Vulture 0 7 7
Osprey 0 64 72
Northern Harrier 0 10 10
Mississippi Kite 0 0 0
Bald Eagle 0 24 26
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 95 98
Cooper's Hawk 0 17 18
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 2 2
Broad-winged Hawk 0 289 319
Swainson's Hawk 0 0 0
Red-tailed Hawk 0 6 12
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 0 27 27
Merlin 0 9 10
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown 0 10 12
Total: 4 567 620
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Observation start time: 08:15:00
Observation end time: 15:00:00
Total observation time: 7 hours
Official Counter: Charlie Haag, Janet Crawford
Observers: Andy Burns, Charles Smith, Janet Crawford, Jim Lockyer
Weather:
Cloudy with mostly SE winds from 0-18Mph. Temperature from 71-80F.
Observations:
Not many migrants today. Our local young Cooper's Hawk took a Mockingbird
and flew up into a tree to enjoy breakfast.
Predictions:
Rain, tapering off during the afternoon. Highs around 70. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
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Report submitted by Janet Crawford (janet.l.c(AT)att.net)
Rose Tree Park Hawkwatch, Media, PA information may be found at:
www.jl-studio.com/RTP_HW
For additional information please contact: Jim Lockyer (jim(AT)jl-studio.com),
Janet Crawford (janet.l.c(AT)att.net)
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Subject: [PABIRDS] BroadwingSEPT - September 17
From: "Moulton, R. K." <Kirk.Moulton(AT)UNISYS.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 7:41pm
This is getting interesting.
Attention BroadwingSEPT volunteers, for tomorrow (Saturday), as soon as the
weather starts to look like it might be clearing, get thee to a hawkwatch.
There are lots (!) of BWs trapped in MA, CT, southeastern NY, and NJ, waiting
for a good flight day. They are more than ready to go. It is a bit hard to get
two weather stations to say the same thing about tomorrow. Likely the front
will move due east, clearing out Pennsylvania from west to east and probably
clearing here in eastern Pennsylvania by mid afternoon. Sunday will be good
flight conditions everywhere.
The big high pressure did indeed pass through the Duluth region yesterday and
Hawk Ridge was rewarded with over 31,000 BWs. Congratulations! Wish I had been
there, grin. As of yesterday, and I believe today, the Detroit and Toronto
region hawk watches are still waiting for the front to pass. The Detroit region
(may) have had clearing in the afternoon, so I await with anticipation their
reports. Today on BroadwingSEPT, it is a rainout.
Yesterday, almost every New England hawk watch posted very low numbers, with the
exception of the more northern sites. The inland site of Mt. Putney in VT did
well again with 760 BW. Little Round Top in central NH had 360 BW in not so
good weather. Clearly, BWs are queued, getting impatient, and ready to move
south. It is hoped that the upcoming high pressure will bring NW winds which
will drive these birds back to the coast. But I am a bit worried that the high
pressure is going to pass too far to the north to be favorable for us on
BroadwingSEPT. If it stays south, we get the NW winds. If it slides over us a
bit farther north, we get N and more likely NE winds, and the BWs will escape
inland into the ridges.
Kirk Moulton
BroadwingSEPT
Southeastern Pennsylvania
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Buff-breasted SP still present,Northampton County
From: Dustin Welch <DWelch5951(AT)AOL.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 7:48pm
Hanoverville Rd. 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Buff-breasted sandpiper (1) actively feeding all over East Pond
least sandpipers (up to 15)
couldn't relocate baird's sandpiper but could still be present
Christian Springs Rd (Nazareth) 6:00 p.m
Greater Yellowlegs (1)
all other shorebirds were not present
Northern Pintail (2) -juvenile male w/female
Green-winged teal (2)
Dustin Welch
Danielsville, PA
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Hummers and flowers
From: kestrel3(AT)ENTER.NET
Date: 17 Sep 2004 8:33pm
I'll add my 2 cents worth regarding hummers and flowers. I'm seeing the same
thing - they prefer the flowers over the feeders right now. I also have Salvia
coccinia, red and pink, plus Salvia guaranitica Black and Blue and another
variety from Arlene which is also blue/purple (having a senior moment and can't
think of the name). The hummers just love them. Plus they go to my Lonicera
sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle), Ironweed, Lantana, Tithonia, Cardinal
flower, red Morning Glory, Great Blue Lobelia, Clary Sage. I was happy Rick
mentioned the pineapple sage. Mine is huge, having grown from a small plant
early this summer, and is just now starting to bloom. The flowers are a
beautiful shade of red. And.....the hummers are still visiting my garden.
Now.........hoping for a selasphorus to show up!
Betsy Mescavage
Seemsville
Northampton Co.
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Subject: [PABIRDS] HSR: BroadwingSEPT - Peace Valley (17 Sep 2004) 14
Raptors
From: reports(AT)HAWKCOUNT.ORG
Date: 17 Sep 2004 8:38pm
BroadwingSEPT - Peace Valley
Pennsylvania, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 17, 2004
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
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Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 0 0
Osprey 5 25 25
Bald Eagle 0 6 6
Northern Harrier 0 3 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 15 15
Cooper's Hawk 1 15 15
Northern Goshawk 0 0 0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0
Broad-winged Hawk 1 282 282
Red-tailed Hawk 0 2 2
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 0
American Kestrel 2 29 29
Merlin 1 5 5
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0
Unknown 0 16 16
Total: 14 398 398
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Observation start time: 08:00:00
Observation end time: 16:00:00
Total observation time: 8 hours
Official Counter: George Franchois, Chuck Crunkleton
Observers:
Visitors:
Ron & Carolyn Constable, Barbara Hiebsh, Mike Homel, August Mirabella
Weather:
Temp 70°F-73°F
Wind-Light Variable in morning; E-NE in afternoon
100% Cloud Cover except 90% between 1 & 2 PM EST
Very Hazy to Hazy
Shower after 3:30PM EST
Observations:
1 or 3 ad. and 3 imm. local Bald Eagles were seen on and off through the
day. "Scrufty" was still present.
A group of about 10 Black Vultures circled over the site about 2PM EST but
were probably local.
6 Bobolinks, D.-c. Cormorants, Least Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated S., 13
Killdeer, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and two Ring-billed Gulls were seen
from the site.
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Report submitted by ()
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Subject: [PABIRDS] TRBC Outing Cancelled
From: Mike Fialkovich <mpfial(AT)EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 9:24pm
Hi,
Jim Valimont has cancelled the Three Rivers Bird Club outing to Harrison Hills
Park for tomorrow, Saturday September 18.
Many roads in the Pittsburgh area are closed due to flooding, including major
routes to the park.
Mike Fialkovich
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
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Subject: [PABIRDS] Gettysburg Turkey Vultures
From: trudy gerlach <tgswoods(AT)EPIX.NET>
Date: 17 Sep 2004 10:17pm
Dear Folks,
An acquaintance told me today that every fall a large number of Turkey Vultures
return to the Gettysburg battleground, and that they have done so since the
Civil War, when they came there to feed on horses killed in battle. I hadn't
heard this before, and wonder if anyone has any information on this.
Trudy Gerlach
Bradford Co.
tgswoods(AT)epix.net
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