Saint Regis Mountain

Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
Intervale Lowlands Bird Walk
3 June 2012

Great Adirondack Birding Celebration | Intervale Lowlands Bird Walk (3 June 2012) Great Adirondack Birding Celebration: Intervale Lowlands (3 June 2012)

Larry Master led a bird walk on a 135-acre farm on the West Branch of the Ausable River on 3 June. The walk was part of the 2012 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration, the longest-running boreal birding festival in the Northeast. The walk began at 7:00 AM, when we met at the Iron Bridge parking area on River Road in Lake Placid, New York. The weather was more cooperative than on the previous day; and we saw 61 species of birds. Highlights included a Cape May Warbler and two deer chasing a flock of Canada Geese feeding in a recently plowed field on a neighboring farm.

We saw or heard the following birds:

Alder Flycatcher 6 Gray Catbird 3
American Crow 8 Great Blue Heron 2
American Goldfinch 2 Hairy Woodpecker 2
American Kestrel 4 Herring Gull 1
American Redstart 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 1
American Robin 8 Magnolia Warbler 14
Barn Swallow 1 Mallard 11
Blackburnian Warbler 1 Mourning Dove 2
Black-capped Chickadee 6 Mourning Warbler 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 Nashville Warbler 8
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2 Northern Parula 2
Blue Jay 10 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Bobolink 1 Ovenbird 1
Broad-winged Hawk 3 Pine Siskin 35
Brown Creeper 3 Purple Finch 4
Brown Thrasher 1 Red-Breasted Nuthatch 1
Canada Goose 27 Red-eyed Vireo 4
Cape May Warbler 1 Red-winged Blackbird 5
Cedar Waxwing 40 Ruby-throated Hummingbird< 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 11 Song Sparrow 4
Chimney Swift 3 Spotted Sandpiper 1
Chipping Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 2
Common Grackle 15 Tree Swallow 6
Common Loon 1 Turkey Vulture 2
Common Merganser 1 Veery 5
Common Raven 2 White-throated Sparrow 9
Common Yellowthroat 8 Wild Turkey 3
Eastern Bluebird 2 Yellow Warbler 2
Eastern Kingbird 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2  
 

 

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