Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
Intervale Lowlands Bird Walk
3 June 2012

Great Adirondack Birding Celebration: Intervale Lowlands (3 June 2012)

Larry Master led a bird walk on a 135-acre farm on the West Branch of the Ausable River on 3 June. The walk was part of the 2012 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration, the longest-running boreal birding festival in the Northeast. The walk began at 7:00 AM, when we met at the Iron Bridge parking area on River Road in Lake Placid, New York. The weather was more cooperative than on the previous day; and we saw 61 species of birds. Highlights included a Cape May Warbler and two deer chasing a flock of Canada Geese feeding in a recently plowed field on a neighboring farm.

We saw or heard the following birds:

Alder Flycatcher 6	Gray Catbird 3
American Crow 8	Great Blue Heron 2
American Goldfinch 2	Hairy Woodpecker 2
American Kestrel 4	Herring Gull 1
American Redstart 1	Lincoln's Sparrow 1
American Robin 8	Magnolia Warbler 14
Barn Swallow 1	Mallard 11
Blackburnian Warbler 1	Mourning Dove 2
Black-capped Chickadee 6	Mourning Warbler 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2	Nashville Warbler 8
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2	Northern Parula 2
Blue Jay 10	Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Bobolink 1	Ovenbird 1
Broad-winged Hawk 3	Pine Siskin 35
Brown Creeper 3	Purple Finch 4
Brown Thrasher 1	Red-Breasted Nuthatch 1
Canada Goose 27	Red-eyed Vireo 4
Cape May Warbler 1	Red-winged Blackbird 5
Cedar Waxwing 40	Ruby-throated Hummingbird< 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 11	Song Sparrow 4
Chimney Swift 3	Spotted Sandpiper 1
Chipping Sparrow 1	Swamp Sparrow 2
Common Grackle 15	Tree Swallow 6
Common Loon 1	Turkey Vulture 2
Common Merganser 1	Veery 5
Common Raven 2	White-throated Sparrow 9
Common Yellowthroat 8	Wild Turkey 3
Eastern Bluebird 2	Yellow Warbler 2
Eastern Kingbird 1	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2	Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2