Eastern PA Birdline: 9/30/2016

• RBA
• Pennsylvania
• Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
• September 30, 2016
• PAEA1609.30
• Birds mentioned

CONNECTICUT WARBLER PHILADELPHIA VIREO PINE SISKIN GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER

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Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline Date: September 30th at 1:00 PM 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.lvaudubon.org/ .

You can visit my 'Eastern PA Birding' Website for photos and information at http://users.rcn.com/becard/home.html .

There will be a field trip to Leaser Lake for waterfowl and fall migrants on October 8th. Meet at Leaser Lake’s north boat launch, located on Ontelaunee Road, at 8:00 AM. Frank Dickman will be leading this trip.

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”. A completely revised, 2nd edition of the book can be ordered at: http://www.lvaudubon.org/shop/ .

NOW FOR THE BIRDS!

Sightings from the MARTINS CREEK ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVE (Tekening) area, Northampton County: CONNECTICUT WARBLER – 1 on 9/24.

Sightings from WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Northampton County: CONNECTICUT WARBLERS – 2 on 9/25.

Sightings from LITTLE GAP, Northampton County: Golden Eagle – 1 on 9/26 PHILADELPHIA VIREO – 1 on 9/27 PINE SISKINS – 6 on 9/25.

Sightings from LEASER LAKE, Lehigh County: GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH – 1 on 9/24.

Sightings from BAKE OVEN KNOB, Lehigh County: Bald Eagles – 8 on 9/25; 13 on 9/26 Broad-winged Hawks – 354 on 9/24 Peregrine Falcons – 9 on 9/26; 6 on 9/28 and 9/29 PHILADELPHIA VIREOS – 3 on 9/23.

Sightings from GREEN LANE RESERVOIR, Montgomery County: At the Church Road area: Sanderling – 1 on 9/24.

Sightings from TINICUM TOWNSHIP, Bucks County: OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER – 1 on 9/24.

Sightings from PEACE VALLEY PARK, Bucks County: Double-crested Cormorants – 54 on 9/24 Lesser Black-backed Gulls – 47 on 9/24.

Sightings from MERRILL CREEK RESERVOIR in nearby New Jersey: At the Scotts Mountain Hawkwatch: Bald Eagles – 7 on 9/24 Broad-winged Hawks – 1564 on 9/24.

Red-breasted Nuthatches continued to be reported from several sites this past week.

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Eastern PA Birdline: 9/17/2016

• RBA
• Pennsylvania
• Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
• September 17, 2016
• PAEA1609.17
• Birds mentioned

ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER RED-HEADED WOODPECKER

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Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline Date: September 17th at 1:00 AM 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.lvaudubon.org/ .

You can visit my 'Eastern PA Birding' Website for photos and information at http://users.rcn.com/becard/home.html .

There will also be a field trip to the Scotts Mountain hawkwatch at Merrill Creek Reservoir for morning migrants and, later, raptors on September 24th. Meet at the Park & Ride lot at the William Penn Highway exit off Route 33, just south of Route 22 at 7:30 AM. I will be leading this trip.

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”. A completely revised, 2nd edition of the book can be ordered at: http://www.lvaudubon.org/shop/ .

NOW FOR THE BIRDS!

Sightings from LITTLE GAP, Carbon County: ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER – 1 on 9/15 (at the Blue Mountain Ski Resort).

Sightings from BAKE OVEN KNOB, Lehigh County: Osprey – 30 on 9/13 Bald Eagles – 10 on 9/11 Broad-winged Hawks – 526 on 9/13; 1303 on 9/16 Merlins – 29 on 9/11. Also Common Raven.

Sightings from GREEN LANE RESERVOIR, Montgomery County: At the Church Road area: AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER – 1 on 9/10 Stilt Sandpipers – 3 on 9/11 Sanderling – 1 on 9/9 and 9/10 White-rumped Sandpipers – 1 on 9/10; 3 on 9/11 and 9/12; 1 on 9/14.

Sightings from PEACE VALLEY PARK, Bucks County: Peregrine Falcon – 1 on 9/9 and 9/11 RED-HEADED WOODPECKER – 1 on 9/15.

Red-breasted Nuthatches continued to be reported from several sites this past week.

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Eastern PA Birdline: 9/2/2016

• RBA
• Pennsylvania
• Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
• September 2, 2016
• PAEA1609.02
• Birds mentioned

DICKCISSEL BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON SNOWY EGRET LITTLE BLUE HERON GLOSSY IBIS LAUGHING GULL YELLOW-BELLED FLYCATCHER

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Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline Date: September 2nd at 2:00 PM 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.lvaudubon.org/ .

You can visit my 'Eastern PA Birding' Website for photos and information at http://users.rcn.com/becard/home.html .

There will be a field trip to the Whitehall Parkway on September 3rd. Meet at the Whitehall Parkway in the Chestnut Street parking lot at the barn, west of Route 145, at 7:30 AM. Trip leader will be Adam Smith.

There will also be a field trip to Cape May, New Jersey on September 10th. Meet at the Tilghman Square parking lot, near the Red Robin restaurant, just west of Route 309 at 5:00 AM. Trip leader will be Scott Burnet.

The next Audubon program will be held on September 9th at 7:00 PM at the Wildlands Conservancy in Emmaus. A local bird bander will do a program called “Why Band the Birds?”

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”. A completely revised, 2nd edition of the book can be ordered at: http://www.lvaudubon.org/shop/ .

NOW FOR THE BIRDS!

Sightings from WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Northampton County: DICKCISSEL – 1 on 8/26 and 8/27 (first-year male).

Sightings from LEASER LAKE, Lehigh County: BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS – 2 on 8/30.

Sightings from BAKE OVEN KNOB, Lehigh County: Osprey – 29 on 8/28 Bald Eagles – 7 on 8/28. Also Common Raven and Red-breasted Nuthatch.

Sightings from GREEN LANE RESERVOIR, Montgomery County: At the Church Road area: SNOWY EGRET – 1 to 8/27 and 8/31 to at least 9/1 LITTLE BLUE HERONS – up to 2 to at least 8/30 Stilt Sandpipers – 1 on 8/27; 3 on 8/29 and 8/31 to at least 9/1.

Sightings from DEEP CREEK / KNIGHT LAKE area, Montgomery County: GLOSSY IBIS – 1 to at least 8/29.

Sightings from PEACE VALLEY PARK, Bucks County: LAUGHING GULL – 1 on 8/27 YELLOW-BELLED FLYCATCHER – 1 on 8/27. Also Red-breasted Nuthatch.

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LVAS Chimney Swift towers now proven to be used by the species for nesting

Scott Burnet (LVAS Habitat Committee Chairman), and his wife Linda Shankweiler (LVAS Social Committee Chair) discovered two Chimney Swift nests on 8/27/16, in the LVAS swift tower located just east of Cedar Beach pool in Cedar Creek Parkway, near Lake Muhlenberg. Today marked the first internal inspection of this tower, since it was completed in fall of 2014. Single birds had been observed entering the tower during the day, both during breeding season last spring and this spring as well. It was hoped that nesting had occurred, but today's discovery of actual nests provides physical evidence. As a follow up, Scott and Linda plan to do an inspection of the tower on the island at the lake tomorrow morning (8/28). This will be the first internal inspection of this tower since the causeway to the island was removed two years ago. Access is now only possible via boat, and with permission from the Allentown Parks Dept. It is hoped that similar findings will be made there also, as swifts have been observed entering that structure during nesting season over the past few years since that tower was finished in late summer of 2013.

Eastern PA Birdline: 8/26/2016

• RBA
• Pennsylvania
• Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
• August 26, 2016

• PAEA1608.26

• Birds mentioned

BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON SNOWY EGRET LITTLE BLUE HERON SANDERLING GLOSSY IBIS YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER

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Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline Date: August 26th at 6:00 PM 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.lvaudubon.org/ .

You can visit my 'Eastern PA Birding' Website for photos and information at http://users.rcn.com/becard/home.html .

There will be a field trip to the Whitehall Parkway on September 3rd. Meet at the Whitehall Parkway in the Chestnut Street parking lot at the barn, west of Route 145, at 7:30 AM. Trip leader will be Adam Smith.

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”. A completely revised, 2nd edition of the book can be ordered at: http://www.lvaudubon.org/shop/ .

NOW FOR THE BIRDS!

Sightings from WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Northampton County: BLUE GROSBEAK – 1 on 8/22 and 8/23 DICKCISSEL – 1 on 8/26 (first-year male).

Sightings from LEASER LAKE, Lehigh County: BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON – 1 on 8/23.

Sightings from BAKE OVEN KNOB, Lehigh County: Bald Eagles – 23 on 8/22 Merlins – 2 on 8/22. Also Common Raven.

Sightings from the LEHIGH GAP NATURE CENTER, Carbon County: BLUE GROSBEAK – 1 on 8/20.

Sightings from GREEN LANE RESERVOIR, Montgomery County: At the Church Road area: SNOWY EGRET – 1 to 8/21; 2 on 8/22; 1 from 8/23 to at least 8/25 LITTLE BLUE HERONS – 3 to 8/22; 1 from 8/23 to at least 8/25 SANDERLING – 5 on 8/21 Great Black-backed Gull – 1 on 8/21 Caspian Terns – 8 on 8/21. Also Pectoral and Semipalmated Sandpiper.

Sightings from DEEP CREEK / KNIGHT LAKE area, Montgomery County: GLOSSY IBIS – 1 to at least 8/24.

Sightings from PEACE VALLEY PARK, Bucks County: YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER – 1 on 8/24. Also Red-breasted Nuthatch.

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Eastern PA Birdline: 8/26/2016

• RBA
• Pennsylvania
• Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity
• August 26, 2016

• PAEA1608.26

• Birds mentioned

BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON SNOWY EGRET LITTLE BLUE HERON SANDERLING GLOSSY IBIS YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER

• Transcript

Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline Date: August 26th at 6:00 PM 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.lvaudubon.org/ .

You can visit my 'Eastern PA Birding' Website for photos and information at http://users.rcn.com/becard/home.html .

There will be a field trip to the Whitehall Parkway on September 3rd. Meet at the Whitehall Parkway in the Chestnut Street parking lot at the barn, west of Route 145, at 7:30 AM. Trip leader will be Adam Smith.

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”. A completely revised, 2nd edition of the book can be ordered at: http://www.lvaudubon.org/shop/ .

NOW FOR THE BIRDS!

Sightings from WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP, Northampton County: BLUE GROSBEAK – 1 on 8/22 and 8/23 DICKCISSEL – 1 on 8/26 (first-year male).

Sightings from LEASER LAKE, Lehigh County: BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON – 1 on 8/23.

Sightings from BAKE OVEN KNOB, Lehigh County: Bald Eagles – 23 on 8/22 Merlins – 2 on 8/22. Also Common Raven.

Sightings from the LEHIGH GAP NATURE CENTER, Carbon County: BLUE GROSBEAK – 1 on 8/20.

Sightings from GREEN LANE RESERVOIR, Montgomery County: At the Church Road area: SNOWY EGRET – 1 to 8/21; 2 on 8/22; 1 from 8/23 to at least 8/25 LITTLE BLUE HERONS – 3 to 8/22; 1 from 8/23 to at least 8/25 SANDERLING – 5 on 8/21 Great Black-backed Gull – 1 on 8/21 Caspian Terns – 8 on 8/21. Also Pectoral and Semipalmated Sandpiper.

Sightings from DEEP CREEK / KNIGHT LAKE area, Montgomery County: GLOSSY IBIS – 1 to at least 8/24.

Sightings from PEACE VALLEY PARK, Bucks County: YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER – 1 on 8/24. Also Red-breasted Nuthatch.

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