Sullivan County Bird Records
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Summer 2020

The weather for the period was mostly seasonable and dry. There were no real standouts for the period but some reports of White -winged Scoter and Sora were nice finds. The Bashakill WMA had a few very nice migration events with high numbers of the boreal warbler species (Tennessee, Bay-breasted, Cape May and Blackpoll). While there was no real rarity found in the county, the bird of the period will go to the Least Bittern found by John Haas at Morningside Park on August 13th.

GREEN-WINGED TEAL - 1 Morningside Pk. 8/13 (JH)
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER - 1 Bashakill 5/19 (JH,BN,SB);
1 Narrowsburg 5/27 (CF)
RING-NECKED PHEASANT - 1 Gabel Rd. 6/16 (PD)
RUFFED GROUSE - 1 Blue Hill Rd. 6/9 (JH)
PIED-BILLED GREBE - 1 Bashakill 8/12 (JH)
D.C. CORMORANT - 14 Rondout Res. 8/14 (JH)
AMER. BITTERN 2 Bashakill 5/16 (LV); 2 Bashakill 5/17 (KMc); 1 Bashkill 5/31 (PD)
LEAST BITTERN - 1 Morningside Pk. 8/13 (JH)
GR. EGRET – 10 Bashakill 8/13 (JH)
GREEN HERON - 5 Morningside Pk. 8/15 (JH)
BLACK VULTURE - 2 Bloomingburg 6/8 (PB)
N. HARRIER - 1 Bashakill 8/12 (JH)
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK - 1 Morningside Pk. 8/15 (JH)
RED_SHOULDERED HAWK - 2 Monticello 7/22 (PC)
VIRGINIA RAIL - 5 Morningside Pk. 8/1 (JH)
SORA - 1 Bashakill 5/17 (JS); 2 Swan Lk. 6/5 (RDa)
COM. GALLINULE – 20 Bashakill 7/22 (JH)
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1 Morningside Pk. 7/29 (JH)
SOLITARY SANDPIPER - 14 Lk. Jefferson 8/3 (JH)
GR. YELLOWLEGS – 1 Bashakill 5/19 (SB)
L. YELLOWLEGS – 1 Morningside Pk. 8/17 (JH)
SEMI-PAL. SANDPIPER – 1 Lk. Jefferson 8/4 (JH);
2 Morningside Pk. 8/18 (JH)
LEAST SANDPIPER - 12 Morningside Pk. 8/20 (JH)
BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 Neversink Res. 5/22 9JH)
HERRING GULL - 1 Kiamesha Lk. 8/4 (SB)
B-BILLED CUCKOO – 2 Forstburg 6/20 (VB)
EASTERN SCREECH-OWL - 1 Bashakill 5/21 (SB)
BARRED OWL - 3 Parksville 7/19 (CK); 1 Yankee Lk. 8/18 (JH)
COMMON NIGHTHAWK - 6 Bashakill 5/16 (GB)
EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL - 1 Bashakill 5/16 (GB); 2 Wurtsboro Hills 6/2 (SK); 4 Upper Pinekill Rd. 6/7 (RDe,PD)
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER - 1 Nature Tr. 5/19 (LV,SB,GB,BN,KMi,JH)
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER - 1 Bashakill 5/19 (LV); 1 Bashakill 7/5 (JH);
2 Bashakill 8/10 (SB)
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH - 1 Nature Tr. 5/18 (LV); 2 Bashkill 5/18
(JH,GB); 1 Bashakill 5/19 (LV,PD)
BLUE -WINGED WARBLER - 1 Nature Tr. 5/16 (LV); 1 Bashakill 5/16 (PD); 2 Bashakill 5/29 (SB)
TENN. WARBLER - 5 Bashakill 5/16 (JH,SB,SA); 1 Linear Pk. Tr. 5/16 (GB)
MAGNOLIA WARBLER - 1 Parkisville 5/24 (HK)
CAPE MAY WARBLER - 10 Bashakill 5/16 (JH,LV)
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER - 5 B a s ha k i l l 5 / 1 6 (LV); 4 Bashakill 5/19 (BN)
BLACKPOLL WARBLER – 3 Bashakill 5/19 (JH); 4 Bashakill 5/20 (SB)
CERULEAN WARBLER – 3 Bashakill 7/5 (SB)
MOURNING WARBLER - 1 Bashakill 5/16 (JH,PD,SA,LV,SB); 1 Nature Tr. 5/19 (LV)
HOODED WARBLER - 3 Wolf Br. 6/20 (JH)
WILSON'S WARBLER- 2 Bash.5/18 (GB); 4 Nature Tr. 5/19 (LV)
CANADA WARBLER - 2 Nature Tr. 5/19 (LV); 2 Bashakill 5/20 (GB); 3 Bash ki l 5/2 4 (SB )
SCARLET TANAGER – 1 Liv. Manor 7/26 (KH)
EASTERN TOWHEE – 1 Bloomingburg 7/3 (PB)
SAVANNAH SPARROW - 3 Hunter Rd. 5/26 (SB); 5 Beechwoods 6/10 (JH)
LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 1 Bashakill 5/19 (JH)
BOBOLINK - 16 Hunter Rd 5/26 (SB); 40 Beechwoods 6/10 (JH)
EASTERN MEADOWLARK - 2 Cochecton 6/14 (CF); 8 Beechwoods 6/10 (JH); 2 Gabel Rd. 6/16 (PD)
ORCHARD ORIOLE - 1 Bashakill 5/16 (GB); 1 Apollo Pl. 5/25 (JH) ; 1 Jeffersonville 6/28 (RD)


CONTRIBUTORS:
SA - Steve Altman; VB - Vickie Baily; P & SB – Paula & Scott Baldinger; GB - Gail Benson; PB - Peter Berger; PC - Patricia Cocot; RDa - Renee Davis; PD - Patrick Dechon; RDe - Riley Dechon; CF - Chris Fischer; JH – John Haas; KH - Kate Hyden; CK - Carrie Karsch; HK - Heather Karsch; SK - Steven Kessler; KMc - Kenneth Mc Dermott; KMi - Karen Miller; Bruce Nott; JS - Jane Smith; LV – Lance Verderame
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Records Compiled by Lance Verderame