From: Dave DeReamus To: Subject: Eastern PA Birdline: 10/12/2000 Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:34 AM - RBA * Pennsylvania * Lehigh / Northampton Counties and Vicinity * October 12, 2000 * PAEA001012 - Birds mentioned SABINE’S GULL BLACK SCOTER WHITE-WINGED SCOTER BALD EAGLE SANDERLING NORTHERN GOSHAWK PEREGRINE FALCON ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER CLAY-COLORED SPARROW RED-HEADED WOODPECKER - Transcript Hotline: Eastern PA Birdline Date: October 12th at 5:00 AM Phone Number: (610) 252-3455 To Report by Phone: Call (610) 252-3455, press the (*) button and leave your message. To Report by E-Mail: Send to becard@fast.net with “Birdline” in subject heading. Compiler: Dave DeReamus You can visit our Website for information about the Lehigh Valley Audubon Society at http://www.lehigh.edu/~bcm0/lvas.html This is Dave DeReamus, for the Eastern PA Birdline, sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Audubon Society, recorded on October 12th at 5:00 AM. There will be a Sparrow ID field trip to Williams Township on Saturday, October 14th. Call Arlene Koch at (610) 253-6377 for reservations and directions. She will be leading this trip. NOW FOR THE BIRDS! A juvenile SABINE’S GULL was found in nearby New Jersey at Merrill Creek Reservoir on the 8th and was still being seen as of the 11th. Other birds seen at Merrill Creek this past week were Common Loon, BLACK and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, an adult BALD EAGLE (probably a resident), a Pileated Woodpecker, and a Winter Wren. Directions to Merrill Creek Reservoir from PA follow: Take I-78 East from Pennsylvania into New Jersey. Take the Route 22 exit and turn left at the end of the exit ramp. Follow Route 22 West to Route 519 and turn right. Follow Route 519 North for 2.7 miles, crossing Route 57, and turn right onto Fox Farm Road. Follow Fox Farm Road to the top of the hill and turn right, through a gate, into the parking lot located at the inlet/outlet tower. Birds seen this past week at the flooded fields by Green Pond included Wood Duck, Gadwall, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, American Black Duck, Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpiper, and a SANDERLING. Birds seen on the field trip to Little Gap included 141 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 11 Cooper's Hawks, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK, an Osprey, a Northern Harrier, a PEREGRINE FALCON, 12 American Kestrels, 6 Red-tailed Hawks, a Red-Shouldered Hawk, 11 Wild Turkeys, an Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Bluebirds, Yellow-rumped Warblers, 2 Dark-Eyed Juncos, White-throated Sparrow, and several skeins of Canada Geese. Birds reported from Williams Township on the 9th and 10th included Great Blue Heron, Wood Duck, Black Vulture, Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks, American Kestrel, Herring Gull, Chimney Swift, Belted Kingfisher, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Eastern Phoebe, Tree Swallow, House and Carolina Wrens, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Eastern Bluebird, Cedar Waxwing, warblers that included an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, Pine, Palm, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, and Common Yellowthroats, and sparrows that included Field, Song, Swamp, Chipping, Fox, Savannah, Lincoln's, Vesper, White-throated, White-crowned, and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW. Birds seen at the Monocacy Nature Center this past week included Wood Duck, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Eastern Phoebe, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Blue-headed Vireo, Eastern Towhee, Dark-eyed Junco, and warblers that included Palm, Nashville, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, and Black-throated Green. Birds seen at the Delaware Water Gap ranger station on the 7th included Wood Duck, Common Snipe, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, and Song Sparrow. Birds seen from a Palmer Township yard this past week included Black Vulture, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and Blue-headed Vireo. - End transcript For Birdeast archives, and to join, leave, or change address, see: http://listserv.arizona.edu/lsv/www/birdeast.html