From: Tom Clauser To: BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Greater Pocono Bird Hotline - 10/24/98 Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 8:32 PM -RBA *Pennsylvania *Poconos *Counties: Pike, Monroe, Carbon, Lackawanna, Wayne *October 24, 1998 -Bird Highlights: Common Loon Great Blue Heron Green Heron BRANT Wood Duck American Black Duck Broad-winged Hawk BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO Great Horned Owl RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue-headed Vireo House Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Gray Catbird Yellow-rumped Warbler Chipping Sparrow LINCOLN'S SPARROW Swamp Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Purple Finch -Transcript: *Hotline: Greater Poconos, PA *Date: October 24, l998 *Hotline Phone: 717-622-2342 *Fax: 717-628-9702 *E-mail: mclauser@pottsville.infi.net *Compiler: Tom Clauser, Dave Hawk (Carbon) *Transcriber: Tom Clauser GREATER POCONOS, PA This is Tom Clauser reporting for the Greater Pocono Bird Hotline for Saturday, October 24, 1998. An updated hotline is recorded every Friday. If you wish to leave a report and bypass the hotline, press the star key now, and leave your message - or you may wait until after the beep at the end of this week's report. Now for this week's birds: CARBON COUNTY: Beltzville State Park (near Lehighton): On 10/l7: 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, PURPLE FINCH, 26 KILLDEER, 14 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS, HOUSE WREN, 11 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, SWAMP SPARROW, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, 3 BELTED KINGFISHERS, AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, WOOD DUCKS, 3 COMMON LOONS, EASTERN PHOEBE, 4 RED- TAILED HAWKS, CHIPPING SPARROW, AMERICAN KESTREL, 4 WHITE-CROWNED SPAR- ROWS, 42 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, 30 DARK-EYED JUNCOS, and others. Note: Some of the above birds were also seen at the Lehigh Canal area near Weisport, also on 10/17. On 10/24: BRANT (first for BSP), COMMON LOON, CEDAR WAXWINGS, AMERICAN KESTREL, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, CHIPPING SPARROW, WHITE- BREASTED NUTHATCH, DARK-EYED JUNCOS, and others. Wild Creek Reservoir: On 10/24: AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARDS, and DOWNY WOODPECKER. LACKAWANNA COUNTY: Beaver Creek (near Moscow): On 10/22: 7 immature WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 2 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, and numbers of GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS. MONROE COUNTY: Monroe County Environmental Education Center: On 10/23: 1 immature WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, numerous WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS at the center's feeders. Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area(DWGNRA) Headquarters: (The headquarters is located about 5 miles south of the Pike/Monroe County line. Take Rt. 209 south, left on Community Drive to the end, left to headquarters. View swamp from behind the building). On 10/23: 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS (1 adult & 1 immature) have been regular behind the hdqrts. building, actively stashing food. The wood- peckers are used to birders and generally ignore them. Other birds there were: GREEN HERON, PILEATED WOODPECKER, HAIRY WOODPECKER, DOWNY WOOD- PECKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, COMMON GRACKLE, BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS, BELTED KINGFISHER, WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH, BLUE JAY, RED- TAILED HAWK, 70+ AMERICAN ROBINS, DARK-EYED JUNCOS, WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, and others. PIKE COUNTY: Delaware State Forest: On 10/24: 30+ RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, 2 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, numerous BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES, TUFTED TITMICE, DOWNY WOODPECKERS, HAIRY WOOD- PECKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, 100+ WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, BELTED KING- FISHER, RED-TAILED HAWK, TURKEY VULTURE, many BLUE JAYS, NORTHERN CAR- DINAL, and one late BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Pocono Environmental Education Center: Birds this week were: DARK-EYED JUNCOS, WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, BLUE JAYS, NORTHERN CARDINALS, a GREAT BLUE HERON, TURKEY VULTURE, RED-TAILED HAWK, some RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, HAIRY WOODPECKER, DOWNY WOODPECKER, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, GREAT-HORNED OWL, BARRED OWL and EASTERN BLUEBIRD. To report birds to the hotline please leave your name, report, and phone number after the beep, or use fax number 717-628-9702, or email to: mclauser@pottsville.infi.net, or call 717-622-1818 weekdays 9 to 4. Thank you for calling the Greater Pocono Bird Hotline. Tom Clauser reporting and GOOD BIRDING! -END TRANSCRIPT.