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Subject: Seneca bird walk
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:12:24 -0400





Two of us showed up at Riley's Lock this morning.  It did not rain and the breezes kept the pesky insects away.  We covered the old quarry area and then walked up-river a little past the end of the pond.  After leaving the lock, we stopped at the intersection of Old Seneca Road and River Road across from the golf course, where we picked up a few species.  After Betsy left, I drove along old Seneca Road and heard several more.  An asterisk marks the species on Old Seneca Road.  
 
46 species
 
Double-crested cormorants
Great blue heron
Mallard
Wood duck
Turkey vulture
Black vulture*
possible red-shoulder hawk
Killdeer*
Yellow-billed cuckoo (excellent look at one of two)
Barred owl (flew back and forth north of the pond from the canal towards the river.  The last time   we saw it, there was something in its beak--food for young?)
Chimney swifts
Pileated woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker (heard)
Eastern kingbird
Gt. crested flycatchers
Eastern phoebe (2 behind lockhouse)
Eastern wood pewee (heard)
Tree swallow
Blue jays
American crow (saw & heard)
Fish crow*
Tufted titmice
White-breasted nuthatch
House wren* (heard)
Carolina wren (heard)
Gray catbird*
American robin*
Blue-gray gnatcatchers
Red-eyed vireos (heard)
Warbling vireos (several heard)
Prothonotary warblers (2 males heard)
Parula warbler (heard)
Blackpoll warblers (several heard)
Prairie warbler* (heard)
Northern waterthrush
Common yellowthroat
Baltimore oriole* (heard)
Common grackle
Brown-headed cowbirds
Scarlet tanager* (heard)
Northern cardinals
Rose-br. grosbeak (heard)
Indigo buntings (heard)
House finches*
American goldfinches
Chipping sparrow*
 
Next Tuesday's walk will be at Hughes Hollow.  
 
 
 
    
 
  
  		 	   		  
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