Date: 04/01/2010

Number: 1

I have been monitoring a oriole on State St. in Dolgeville for the past 24 hours. I have also seen one in the neighborhood of Elm, Helmer, and Baker St. All other streets I checked are quiet, but State St. you can hear them very clearly. I'm having a hard time capturing them on camera, because they perch wayyyyyy up on trees and they don't stay still. Also it's nerve wrecking to not get people suspicious with me pointing a camera or binoculars around their houses just to see the oriole. I'm surprised I'm not hearing them on Dolge ave. I usually see them there first. Normally, the village, becomes saturated with them, but I'm not seeing that yet. I got a report of a baltimore oriole in Cullen. Cullen is locted 15-20 miles SSW of here, south and below the watershed of the Mohawk River. That area is called the maumee swamp and is the northern edge of the Susquehanna watershed. Other recent arrivals are several species of warblers, chimney swifts, but no thrashers that I can see or hear. Belted kingfishers are hanging around Wards pond and across the nearby creek. I also heard a tree swallow around the Mannheim town barn.

Dolgeville, NY

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -74.7

Observed by: Matthew
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