Eastern Pennsylvania RBA
May 8, 2008
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Subject: [BIRDEAST] Eastern PA Birdline: 5/8/2008
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- RBA
* Pennsylvania
* Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
* May 8, 2008
* PAEA0805.08
- Birds mentioned
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
MISSISSIPPI KITE
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE
- Transcript
Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline
Date: May 8th at 10:00 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@rcn.com with "Birdline" in subject
heading.
Compiler: Dave DeReamus
My reporting area includes all of Lehigh and Northampton Counties with the
northern edge of the area reaching Beltzville State Park and the southern
edge reaching Peace Valley Park in Bucks County. Updates are typically done
every Thursday, more often when necessary.
You can visit the Lehigh Valley Audubon Society Website at
http://www.lehigh.edu/~bcm0/lvas.html.
You can visit my 'Eastern PA Birding' Website for photos and information at
http://users.rcn.com/becard/home.html.
This is Dave DeReamus, for the Eastern PA Birdline, sponsored by the Lehigh
Valley Audubon Society, recorded on May 8th at 10:00 PM.
There will be a field trip to the Jordan Creek Parkway on May 10th. Meet at
the tennis courts parking lot off Lehnert Road / Scherersville Road at 7:30
AM. Trip leader will be Alan Jennings.
There will also be a field trip to the Monocacy Nature Center on May 11th.
Meet at the Illick's Mill Road parking lot at the park at 7:30 AM. Trip
leader will be Pauline Morris.
Next week's field trips are to Leaser Lake on May 17th and to either the
Lehigh Canal towpath near Freemansburg or Green Pond on May 18th. Details
will be in next week's update.
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 JACOBSBURG STATE PARK, Northampton County included:
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT - 1 on 5/6
Hooded Warbler - 1 on 5/3 and 5/4
Lincoln's Sparrows - 5 on 5/7.
Also Common Merganser, Black-billed Cuckoo, and White-eyed Vireo.
Sightings from the GREEN POND area, Northampton County included:
Green-winged Teal - 2 on 5/3
Semipalmated Plovers - 4 on 5/8
Wilson's Snipe - 1 on 5/8
Lesser Black-backed Gulls - 107 on 5/3; 13 on 5/8.
Also Green Heron.
Sightings from the MONOCACY NATURE CENTER, Northampton County included:
Black-billed Cuckoo and Least Flycatcher.
Sightings from the NORTHAMPTON area, Northampton County included:
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER - 1 on 5/6.
Sightings from the KUNKLETOWN area, Monroe County included:
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH - 1 on 5/4
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER - 1 on 5/4
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 on 5/4.
Also Common Raven.
Sightings from NORTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Lehigh County included:
MISSISSIPPI KITE - 1 on 5/7 ('fly-by' at the Treichlers Bridge near Laury's
Station).
Cerulean Warbler - 1 on 5/7.
Sightings from GREEN LANE RESERVOIR, Montgomery County included:
At the Church Road area:
Dunlin - 3 on 5/3.
Sightings from the JORDAN CREEK PARKWAY, Lehigh County included:
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 on 5/6.
Sightings from the UNAMI CREEK VALLEY, Montgomery County included:
Swainson's Thrushes - 3 on 5/5.
Also Tennessee Warbler.
Sightings from the PERKASIE area, Bucks County included:
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE - 1 on 5/5 (near the bridge over the Perkiomen Creek on
Callowhill Road).
Birds noted at several sites this past week included Lesser Yellowlegs,
Spotted, Solitary and Least Sandpiper, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Great Crested
Flycatcher, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Veery, Wood Thrush, Gray Catbird,
Red-eyed, Blue-headed, and Yellow-throated Vireo, Indigo Bunting,
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, Baltimore and Orchard Oriole, and
warblers that included Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Nashville, Prairie,
Blue-winged, Blackburnian, Black-and-white, Black-throated Blue,
Black-throated Green, Worm-eating, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Ovenbird,
Northern Parula, American Redstart, and Common Yellowthroat.
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