Date: 5/19/25 9:29 am From: David M via groups.io <davidpmassa...> Subject: Re: [hmbirds] 2025 Century Run Report
Wow this is awesome sounds like a spectacular day/run!
Thanks for sharing
> On May 19, 2025, at 8:51 AM, marianne friers via groups.io <threecollie...> wrote:
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> 2025 Fulton-Montgomery County Century Run
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> 200 miles, 110 birds. 15 ½ hours.
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> .55 birds per mile, for George Steele and myself, Marianne Friers, on our Fulton and Montgomery County Century Run this year.
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> The day began just after 3 AM, with a duo of American Woodcocks peenting on a Montgomery County back road, with a Common Yellowthroat complaining about all those pesky witchities nearby.
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> It ended sometime after 6 PM with a fortuitous Ruffed Grouse that showed up mere seconds after George pointed out that the habitat was perfect for them, and I mentioned seeing one in that spot last year.
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> “What’s that in the road?”
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> “A Ruffed Grouse, believe it or not.”
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> Wildy enough it was like that all day. A Grasshopper Sparrow buzzed from the exact bush where one has been found singing for the past three years. A Ruby-throated Hummingbird perched at the tip of the very same swampland snag where one has awaited us for even longer than that. Ditto a Common Gallinule up in Fulton County. There has been one calling or running back and forth across the road every time we have visited this year. It was joined by a Virginia Rail scurrying past just as we left.
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> We got some strange looks on the Gateway Bridge, which was thronged with non-bird folk, when we cried in perfect unison, “Fish Crow!” as one called nearby. The expected Northern Rough-winged Swallows were swiftly flitting there as well.
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> George called up a pair of Great-horned Owls and a couple of Barred Owls in the early morning darkness. Even Merlin thought his vocal imitations were actually birds of the night.
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> Species highlights included a Worm-eating Warbler flitting around and singing its buzzy trill from the edge of a woodland road, It was a first in NY for me, and only the second anywhere, and brought us to a total of 14 warbler species.
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> Just as last year we failed to find either a Brown Thrasher or a Hermit Thrush, although other thrush species abounded. The afternoon brought snarling winds and driving rain, but George still managed to spot a pair of Common Loons way out on the seething waters of Caroga Lake. Had a great time as always.
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> Century Run 2025
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> George Steele, Marianne Friers
> Fulton and Montgomery Counties
> 110 Species found
> 15 1/2 hours in the field
> 200 miles traveled
> Elevation range 253 feet to 1543 feet
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> 84 Canada Goose
> 16 Wood Duck
> 21 Mallard
> 1 Hooded Merganser
> 6 Common Merganser
> 6 Wild Turkey
> 1 Ruffed Grouse
> 9 Rock Pigeon
> 24 Mourning Dove
> 2 Black-billed Cuckoo
> 11 Chimney Swift
> 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
> 2 Virginia Rail
> 1 Common Gallinule
> 4 Killdeer
> 6 American Woodcock
> 2 Wilson’s Snipe
> 8 Ring-billed Gull
> 1 American Herring Gull
> 2 Common Loon
> 6 Green Heron
> 2 Great Blue Heron
> 3 Black Vulture
> 12 Turkey Vulture
> 1 Osprey
> 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
> 2 Northern Harrier
> 2 Bald Eagle
> 3 Red-tailed Hawk
> 2 Great-horned Owl
> 4 Barred Owl
> 2 Belted Kingfisher
> 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
> 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
> 3 Downy Woodpecker
> 1 Hairy Woodpecker
> 8 Northern Flicker
> 3 American Kestrel
> 3 Peregrine Falcon
> 7 Eastern Wood Pewee
> 7 Alder Flycatcher
> 3 Willow Flycatcher
> 9 Least Flycatcher
> 10 Eastern Phoebe
> 11 Great-crested Flycatcher
> 19 Eastern Kingbird
> 2 Yellow-throated Vireo
> 1 Blue-headed Vireo
> 22 Warbling Vireo
> 18 Red-eyed Vireo
> 21 Blue Jay
> 13 American Crow
> 1 Fish Crow
> 2 Common Raven
> 29 Black-capped Chickadee
> 17 Tufted Titmouse
> 10 Bank Swallow
> 34 Tree Swallow
> 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
> 14 Barn Swallow
> 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet
> 1 White-breasted Nuthatch
> 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
> 1Brown Creeper
> 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
> 4 Northern House Wren
> 2 Marsh Wren
> 3 Carolina Wren
> 35 European Starling
> 43 Gray Catbird
> 2 Eastern Bluebird
> 17 Veery
> 14 Wood Thrush
> 44 American Robin
> 3 Cedar Waxwing
> 5 House Sparrow
> 3 Purple Finch
> 36 American Goldfinch
> 1 Grasshopper Sparrow
> 8 Chipping Sparrow
> 8 Field Sparrow
> 1 Dark-eyed Junco
> 1 Savannah Sparrow
> 27 Song Sparrow
> 8 Swamp Sparrow
> 8 Eastern Towhee
> 17 Bobolink
> 6 Eastern Meadowlark
> 13 Baltimore Oriole
> 86 Red-winged Blackbird
> 5 Brown-headed Cowbird
> 43 Common Grackle
> 42 Ovenbird
> 1 Worm-Eating Warbler
> 1 Louisiana Waterthrush
> 10 Blue-winged Warbler
> 6 Black-and-white Warbler
> 1 Tennessee Warbler
> 50 Common Yellowthroat
> 18 American Redstart
> 2 Bay-breasted Warbler
> 2 Blackburnian Warbler
> 22 Yellow Warbler
> 10 Chestnut-sided Warbler
> 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
> 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler
> 3 Scarlet Tanager
> 11 Northern Cardinal
> 13 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
> 3 Indigo Bunting
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