Birdline
Photo GallerY
2006
Referring to Birds noted on the
Philadelphia & Delaware
Birdlines
Photos in this gallery © - all rights reserved by the photographers.
Some of these, and other photographs, also in:
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Photo Gallery of North American Birds:
Part 1
(Fulmars thru Owls)
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Photo Gallery of North American Birds:
Part 2
(Hummingbirds thru Warblers)
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Photo Gallery of North American Birds:
Part 3 (Buntings
thru Grosbeaks)
This
Clay-colored Sparrow, above & below,
was at the same Bucks County location as the
Lark Sparrow that follows.
(both of these photos by Howard Eskin)
This, and the following
photograph, are of a Lark Sparrow
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in October 2006.
(photos by Howard Eskin)
A Blue-headed
Vireo during its southbound migration
(photograph
by Howard Eskin)
Orange-crowned
Warbler
(photograph
by Howard Eskin)
Black Tern
The above, and the following five photographs,
were taken in August 2006 at Bombay Hook Refuge in Delaware.
(photos by Kim Steininger
www.birdsbykim.com)
A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
& an Eastern Kingbird
in the air together in Delaware, on August 8, 2006.
One of these flycatchers is rare in the Delaware;
the other common.
(This photograph and the two below
of the rare-in-Delaware Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
were taken by Kim Steininger: www.birdsbykim.com
)
A Great-crested Flycatcher
at Bombay Hook Refuge in Delaware
in July 2006.
(photo by Kim Steininger
www.birdsbykim.com)
Hawks in Flight
Above: American Kestrel (photo by Howard Eskin)
Below: Peregrine Falcons (photo by Kim Steininger: www.birdsbykim.com
)
In 2006,
5 young Peregrine Falcons fledged
on a building in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
The photo above shows young and the adult.
These 2 photographs were taken in early June '06.
(Courtesy of Kim Steininger)
A female
Common Eider on a New Jersey beach in June 2006.
(photograph by Alex Tongas)
A Herring Gull
chick along the New Jersey Shore in June 2006.
(photograph by Alex Tongas)
In this and the
photo below,
a juvenile Fork-tailed Flycatcher
in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Photographed on June 5, 2006.
In the photo below, note the yellow in the crown.
Fork-tailed Flycatchers are normally
in South & Central America.
(photos by Howard Eskin)
This Western Grebe, found on May
28, 2006
on the Delaware River by the Battery Park in New Castle, Delaware,
was the first recorded in the state since 1972.
(This, and the following photograph, by Chuck Brandt)
A flagged Red
Knot along the Delaware Bayshore in Delaware
In the spring of 2006.
The Delaware Bay Shorebird Teams (from DE & NJ) having been putting
lime green flags (as in the photo above)
on shorebirds (including Knots) since 2003.
(The above photo & the info here regarding shorebird banding
courtesy of Chris Bennett)
In another photograph of a
banded Red Knot
taken along the Delaware Bayshore in Delaware in 2006,
the bird is seen to have a red band on one leg, and a yellow on the other.
(photograph by Howard Eskin)
Unless such a bird has a flag,
the only way to know where the bird was banded would be to get the number.
With flagged birds, it's generally fairly easy:
Dark Green, in the United States
Orange, in Argentina,
Red, in Chile
Blue, in Brazil,
White, in Canada,
Black, in Venezuela,
and Light Green in Surinam.
Also, this past winter ('05-'06), lime tags were put on birds in Florida,
with a blue band on the opposite leg.
On May 29, 2006, there were
flocks of Semipalmated Sandpipers
along the Delaware Bay.
These, and the birds in the next few photos, were at Port Mahon, in Delaware.
(The photographs in this set by Howard Eskin)
A Dunlin,
among the Semipalmated Sandpipers.
Another name for the Dunlin, in years gone by, has been the
Red-backed Sandpiper.
A Red Knot at Port Mahon on May 29, 2006.
A
Black-bellied Plover at "Taylor's Gut" near Woodland Beach, Delaware
on May 29, 2006.
Another Plover,
the Semipalmated, at "Taylor's Gut"
near Woodland Beach, Delaware on May 29, 2006.
Even though
there's white on the face,
this Bombay Hook, Delaware bird is not a White-faced Ibis.
But the bird in the following photo is one,
seen in May 2006 in New Jersey.
A White-faced
Ibis
at Island Beach, New Jersey, on May 18, 2006
(photograph by Alex Tongas)
As always in May,
warblers pass though our region on their way north.
This Chestnut-sided Warbler was photographed at Valley Forge Park,
in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on May 18, 2006
(photograph by Andy Smith: website: www.AndySmithPhotography.com)
Shorebirds at Port Mahon in
Delaware on May 24, 2006
included a Red-necked Phalarope.
(photograph by Jeff Holmes).
Other shorebirds in photos that follow
were along the New Jersey shore on May 21, 2006.
(photographs by Howard Eskin)
A Purple Sandpiper in the area of Barnegat
Light NJ on May 21, 2006.
The bird will go north to breed, but its breeding plumage has started to appear.
An attractive Ruddy Turnstone also at
Barnegat Light.
A Sanderling on the beach,
starting to show its breeding plumage.
Two species of
swallows in the Delaware Valley Region.
Above: a Tree Swallow in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania
(photographed by William Edward Kendall)
Below: a Northern Rough-winged Swallow in Bucks County PA
(photographed by
Howard Eskin)
2 Blue-winged
Teals (male & female)
in Delaware during the spring of 2006.
(photograph by Marie Z. Gardner)
The Cattle Egret
is a "decreasing & rare" bird in Pennsylvania.
They used to nest in large numbers on an island
along the lower Susquehanna River in Lancaster County. No longer.
In April 2006, there have been 10 Cattle Egrets
in Indiana County in western Pennsylvania.
This bird was photographed in eastern Pennsylvania,
in Tullytown, Bucks County, on April 13, 2006, by Howard Eskin.
Two birds in
Flight.
Above: female Northern Harrier.
Below: American Oystercatcher.
In the spring, these & other species are about to nest.
(photographs by Howard Eskin)
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Egrets in the
spring.
Above: Great Egret in high breeding plumage.
Below: Snowy Egret.
(photographs by Howard Eskin)
Gulls in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania
These two, photographed in April 2006,
are Bonaparte's (left) and Little (right).
(photograph by Gerry Dewaghe)
Gulls in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania
Among those in these two photos (above & below),
a first-year Thayer's Gull at Lake Nockamixon.
A California Gull (no photo here) was seen there
that same weekend,
(photographs above & below by Alan Brady)
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A Pine Warbler
at Tinicum (or the John Heinz Refuge),
in Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 31, 2006
(photograph by Andy Smith: website: www.AndySmithPhotography.com)
A bird appearing to a
first-year male Bullock's Oriole
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, in January 2006.
Some have said that this bird shows characteristics of hybridization
with the Baltimore Oriole.
(photograph by Howard Eskin)
A White-winged Crossbill in
Pennsylvania,
west of Luthersburg in Clearfield County,
on January 7, 2006.
(photograph by Matt Orsie)
Birds at Bombay Hook
National Wildlife in Delaware in the winter
include a Cackling Goose with Snow Geese (upper
photo)
and a hunting male Northern Harrier (lower photo).
(photographs by Kim Steininger)
