Date: 8/20/26 8:10 am From: Amy Taracido <amytaracido...> Subject: RBA western Pennsylvania, 4 August 2026
RBA
*Pennsylvania
*Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania
*PAWE08.04.26
Highlights:
WILLOW PTARMIGAN (Erie County)
EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL (Clarion County)
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER (Erie County)
LITTLE BLUE HERON (Butler County)
ALDER FLYCATCHER
HENSLOW'S SPARROW (Clarion County)
LAWRENCE'S WARBLER (Crawford County)
SWAINSON'S WARBLER (Fayette County)
BLUE GROSBEAK (Allegheny, Butler, and Lawrence Counties)
Contributors: David Arrow, Brendyn Baptiste, Mary Birdsong, Margaret Brewster, Dave Brooke, Thomas Frank, Brian Gallagher, Michelle Hanko, Walt Jones, Deborah Kalbfleisch, Brian Kaldorf, Dave Keith, Hayley Kile, Meg Kolodick, Ed McKaveney, Dan Mendenhall, Jim Nieusma, Owen Rick, Shawn Sowers, Mark Vass, Dana Williams, Carole Winslow, David Yeany II.
Compiler: Amy Taracido
Tuesday, 28 July 2026 through Tuesday, 4 August 2026
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NOTE: CANVASBACK, PINE SISKIN, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER continue to be reported.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY:
On 7/29-7/31 and 8/4 in Cedarhurst, 2 MERLINS (WJ et. al.).
At Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve on 7/30, 1 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER (DM).
On 8/1 at Wingfield Pines, 1 NORTHERN HARRIER (OR).
At Hoover Elementary on 8/1, 1 MERLIN (EM).
At the Imperial grasslands on 8/1, 1 BLUE GROSBEAK (BK); on 8/2, 4 BLUE GROSBEAKS (MV); on 8/3, 1 BLUE GROSBEAK (BG).
On 8/2 in Wilkinsburg, 1 MERLIN (HK).
ARMSTRONG COUNTY:
Near Adams on 7/31, 6 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS (DB).
BUTLER COUNTY:
On 7/31-8/1 at Lake Arthur, 1 LITTLE BLUE HERON (DW, MB).
Along Stoughton Road on 8/1, 1 BLUE GROSBEAK (DK).
CLARION COUNTY:
In the Piney Tract area on 7/28, 2 EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILLS (CW).
This week in Sligo, HENSLOW'S SPARROWS (CW).
CRAWFORD COUNTY:
At Erie National Wildlife Refuge on 7/29, 1 LAWRENCE'S WARBLER (BB).
On 7/31 in Pymatuning, 2 MERLINS (SS).
At State Gamelands #214 on 8/3, 1 ALDER FLYCATCHER (BB).
ERIE COUNTY:
At Presque Isle State Park on 8/1, 1 WILLOW PTARMIGAN (MB); on 8/3, 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER (TF).
FAYETTE COUNTY:
On 7/30 at Bear Run Nature Reserve, 2 SWAINSON'S WARBLERS (DY).
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
On 8/3 west of Brockway at Bond Road wetlands, 2 ALDER FLYCATCHERS (DK).
Along Five Bridges Trail on 8/3, 2 ALDER FLYCATCHERS (DK).
LAWRENCE COUNTY:
In Volant on 7/31, 1 BLUE GROSBEAK (DA); on 8/1, 1 MERLIN (MH).
VENANGO COUNTY:
From last week: at Kahle Lake on 7/24, 3 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS (MK).
WESTMORELAND COUNTY:
Near Ligonier on 7/30, possible RED CROSSBILL (JN).
