I spent a pleasant day at Merck Forest Farm with a friend yesterday - she painted while I birded.  Species list follows.  If anyone monitoring this mailing list knows who has the BBA block would you forward the information to them, please?  Thanks!

Turkey Vulture

Killdeer

Downy Woodpecker

Least Flycatcher - viewed singing

Eastern Phoebe - heard one singing and sighted another feeding

Eastern Kingbird - sighted on the nest

Tree Swallow - visiting nestboxes

Barn Swallow - gathering mud from barnyard for nests

Cedar Waxwing

Gray Catbird

Eastern Bluebird - pair sighted

American Robin - many pairs!

Black-capped Chickadee - singing 

Tufted Titmouse - singing

Blue Jay

American Crow

Common Raven

European Starling - viewed leaving a tree nesthole

Red-eyed Vireo - singing, singing, singing....never viewed

Yellow Warbler - singing but never sighted

Chestnut-sided Warbler - beautiful views of singing bird

Blackburnian Warbler - very good views of pair together; this was my first look at a female and as I watched, she gathered silk from a tent caterpillar nest!

Ovenbird - heard but not seen

Common Yellowthroat - viewed singing on terrirory

Scarlet Tanager - beautiful views of bird singing on territory

Chipping Sparrow - viewed singing

Song Sparrow - viewed singing

Red-winged Blackbird - viewed singing

Common Grackle - pairs present

Brown-headed Cowbird - pairs present

Baltimore Oriole 

American Goldfinch



Mona Bearor
South Glens Falls, NY
kinglet*at*adelphia.net