Eastern Pennsylvania RBA
July 30, 2010
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Subject: [BIRDEAST] Eastern PA Birdline: 8/6/2010
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- RBA
* Pennsylvania
* Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
* August 6, 2010
* PAEA1007.30
- Birds mentioned
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
BLUE GROSBEAK
GLOSSY IBIS
- Transcript
Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline
Date: August 6th at 3:00 AM
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 Friday, more often when necessary.
You can visit the Lehigh Valley Audubon Society Website at
http://www.lehigh.edu/lvas.
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 August 6th at 3:00 AM.
There will be a field trip to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in
Delaware on August 7th. Meet at the Tilghman Square parking lot, near the
Red Robin restaurant, just west of Route 309 at 7:30 AM. Trip leader will
be Peter Saenger.
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 BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Northampton County included:
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES - 2 on 8/2; 1 to at least 8/5 (at the intersection
of Freemansburg Avenue and Wagner Drive). This represents the 1st
Northampton County record!
Sightings from the GREEN POND area, Northampton County included:
Blue-winged Teal - 1 male to at least 7/31
Caspian Tern - 1 on 8/1.
Sightings from BELTZVILLE STATE PARK, Carbon County included:
Bonaparte's Gulls - 2 on 8/2 and 8/3
Forster's Tern - 1 on 8/1.
Sightings from BAKE OVEN KNOB, Lehigh County included:
Common Raven.
Sightings from the LEHIGH GAP NATURE CENTER, Carbon County included:
BLUE GROSBEAK - 1 on 7/31.
Sightings from the ALBURTIS area, Lehigh County included:
Bobolink and Savannah Sparrow on 8/1 (along Smith Lane).
Sightings from the HENNINGSVILLE area, Berks County included:
Common Raven - 1 on 8/1; 2 on 8/2.
Sightings from GREEN LANE RESERVOIR, Montgomery County included:
At the Church Road area:
GLOSSY IBIS - 1 to at least 8/5; 2 from 8/1 to 8/4
Short-billed Dowitchers - 5 on 8/4
Western Sandpipers - 4 on 8/1
Caspian Tern - 1 on 8/1.
Also Semipalmated Plover, and Pectoral, Solitary, and Semipalmated
Sandpiper.
Great Egret, Lesser Yellowlegs, and Least Sandpiper were noted at several
sites this past week.
- End transcript
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