Central Pennsylvania RBA
July 22, 2010
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:09:31 -0400
Reply-To: TimeTraveler McConaughy <timetraveler@MSN.COM>
Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (East)"
<BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
From: TimeTraveler McConaughy <timetraveler@MSN.COM>
Subject: [BIRDEAST] Central PA Birdline for 7.22.2010
To: BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Precedence: list
List-Help: <http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=BIRDEAST>,
<mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU?body=INFO BIRDEAST>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:BIRDEAST-unsubscribe-request@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:BIRDEAST-subscribe-request@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
List-Owner: <mailto:BIRDEAST-request@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
List-Archive: <http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=BIRDEAST>
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at email.arizona.edu
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by virtualbirder.com id
o6LM9uPq041427
- RBA
* Pennsylvania
* Central Pennsylvania
* July 22, 2010
* PACE1007.22
Bird Highlights
LITTLE BLUE HERON (Centre & Lancaster Cos.)
CATTLE EGRET (Lancaster Co.)
WHITE IBIS (Centre Co.)
GLOSSY IBIS (? Luzerne Co.)
CHUCK-WILLS-WIDOW (Lebanon Co.)
- Transcript
Hotline: Central Pennsylvania Birdline
July 22, 2010
To Report: TimeTraveler50@comcast.net
Compiler: Mark A. McConaughy
Coverage: Central Pennsylvania, Susquehanna River Drainage System
Transcriber: Mark A. McConaughy
Welcome to Pennsylvania Audubon's and the Patriot-News' Birdline. This Birdline
covers sightings made primarily during the week prior to Thursday, July 22,
2010.
CARBON COUNTY:
One BLUE GROSBEAK was observed at the Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge on July 17
(BH).
CENTRE COUNTY:
A check of Julian Wetlands on July 17 found 1 juvenile WHITE IBIS and 1 LEAST
SANDPIPER (DG).
An immature LITTLE BLUE HERON and 1 LEASST SANDPIPER were seen at Colyer Lake on
July 21 (DW, RC).
LANCASTER COUNTY:
Conejohela Flats yielded up to 2 LITTLE BLUE HERONS, 1 CATTLE EGRET, 4 BALD
EAGLES, 67 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 18 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 1 SANDERLING, 2
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 100 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 2 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and 3
BLUE GROSBEAKS between July 15 and 21 (BS, ME, JB, DB).
A pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS were seen near the bridge at Columbia on July 19
(ML).
A CERULEAN WARBLER was singing in Susquehannock State Park on July 21 (JB, DB).
LEBANON COUNTY:
The CHUCK-WILLS-WIDOW continues to be seen or heard along Tomstown Road through
at least July 16 (DD, BJ, JH).
LUZERNE COUNTY:
There was an unconfirmed report of a flock of GLOSSY IBIS in flight over
Wilkes-Barre on July 16 (CB).
PERRY COUNTY:
At least 3 CERULEAN WARBLERS were seen along Bower Mountain Road just off of
Laurel Run Road in Tuscarora State Forest on July 17 (AM, KK).
CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENTS:
If you miss the usual Thursday postings of the Central PA Birdline on BIRDEAST
and PABIRDS, I will also be posting it on my page web site at:
http://people.delphiforums.com/MCCONAUGHY/currentbl.htm
*PORC = Pennsylvania Ornithological Record Committee. Rare bird sightings should
be documented with written descriptions and photographs whenever possible and
sent to PORC for review. Send PORC reports to Nick Pulcinella, 613 Howard Road,
West Chester, PA 19380.
The following people have contributed to this report: Christopher Bohinski (CB),
Dustin Bosler (DB), Justin Bosler (DB), Ron Crandall (RC), Denise Donmoyer
(DD), Mike Epler (ME), Della Guzman (DG), Bob Hoopes (BH), Jeff Hopkins (JH),
Barb Junker (BJ), Kathy Kuchwara (KK), Meredith Lombard (ML), Annette Mathes
(AM), Bob Schutsky (BS) and Drew Weber (DW). I apologize if I have misspelled
their names and I will also refrain from naming that person on request.
-End Transcript
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mark A. McConaughy TimeTraveler50@comcast.net
Bushy Run Battlefield
P.O. Box 486
Harrison City, PA 15636-0468 (724) 527-5585 x103
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For Birdeast archives, and to join, leave, or change address, see:
http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdeast.html