Lake Wallace Sightings

Aug 8 & 13, 2012 12pm Lake Wallace

Goldfinch 2
Tv 6
Chp sp 8
Kingbird 3
Bluebird
Cedar wax 4
Chckd
Oriole immature
Green heron ...offended
Can goose 10
Peewee 2
Starling 5
Robin 3
Chsw 2
Pigeon
Tree sw 52
Barn sw 8
Crow
Bluebird
Kingfisher 2 ... arguing
GBH
Rt hawk immature ... yelling
Cowbird 3, 1 male
Wood duck  male n female
Modo 4
Flicker nfeeding on ground
Wh th nuthatch
Hummer
Mallard 14
Grackle 3

Spring '12

Lake Wallace, Birds, Friday May 11, 2012, 3:00pm, 65, partly sunny, windy

1 Hooded Merganser, female

1 Mallard

1 Great Blue Heron

14 Canada Goose, 5 goslings

2 Spotted Sandpiper

3 American Crow

1 Downy Woodpecker

1 Red-bellied Woodpecker

1 Yellow-shafted Flicker

1 Belted Kingfisher

1 White-breasted Nuthatch

9 Red winged Blackbird

3 Common Grackle

1 House Wren

5 Robin

2 Northern Cardinal

1 Northern Mockingbird

2 Grey Catbird

4 Baltimore Oriole

1 Eastern Kingbird

1 Eastern Phoebe

1 Least Flycatcher

25 Tree Swallow

2 Yellow Warbler

1 Common Yellowthroat

1 Wilson’s Warbler

6 Yellow-rumped Warbler

1 American Redstart, male

4 European Starling

6 Chipping Sparrow

2 Song Sparrow

2 House finch

4 American Goldfinch

1 Brown-headed Cowbird

5 House Sparrow

Checklist S10648868  ebird.org
Location  Lake Wallace, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, US
Date and Effort  Fri May 04, 2012 3:00 PM
Protocol:  Traveling
Party Size:  3
Duration:  1 hour(s)
Distance:  1.0 mile(s)
Observers:  Louise Levy
Comments:  rainy day cleared up ... 75 and sunny
A complete checklist of the birds we were able to identify
Species  20 species total

2    Canada Goose
3    Wood Duck 2 males, 1 female
1    Turkey Vulture
1    Cooper's Hawk
1    Red-tailed Hawk
2    Belted Kingfisher
1    Northern Flicker
1    Pileated Woodpecker
1    Eastern Phoebe
5    Blue Jay
30  Tree Swallow
2    Black-capped Chickadee
3    Tufted Titmouse
1    Brown Creeper
1    House Wren
1    Eastern Bluebird
3    American Robin
10  Red-winged Blackbird
2    Baltimore Oriole
1    House Finch

check out ebird – Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s citizen science bird population and migration data website – for more listings of birds at Lake Wallace.  You have to register, but it’s free!

Apr 17 3-4:15pm

Mockingbird

House sparrow 2

House finch

Downy Woodpecker

Mourning dove

Starling 2

Flicker 3

Song sparrow

Chickadee 3

Red bellied woodpecker

Chipping sparrow

Palm warbler 2

Grackle 3

Red-winged Blackbird 9

Robin

Phoebe 2

Pileated Woodpecker

Ring necked duck 3 2male, 1female

Mallard 3

Tree swallow 15

Wood duck 4

Titmouse 2

Canada Goose 2

Turkey Vulture 2

Great Blue Heron

Belted kingfisher

Junco 3

White throated sparrow

Green frogs
Spring peepers
Largemouth Bass
Red-spotted Salamanders
Lots of large Dragonflies!
Blackflies
Cranefly
Midges
Mayflies

Winter '11-'12
Brown Creeper
Downy Woodpecker
American Robin
Belted Kingfisher
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Dark-eyed Junco
Mourning Dove
European Starling
Black-capped Chickadee
American Crow
House Sparrow

Grey Squirrel
Flying Bugs!
Something swimming through the water!!


Fall '11
Mallard
Canada Goose
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Wood Duck
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Blue Jay
(tantalizing hints of a Ruffed Grouse)
American Robin
Tufted Titmouse
American Robin
American Crow

Beaver
Grey Squirrel
Chipmunk
Snakes
Frogs
Salamanders
Crayfish
and lots of bugs flying and in the water!

Spring - Summer '11
Scarlet Tanager
Owl Pellets 2!
(more to be updated as soon as I find the paper I wrote it on!)