- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/23/2013 * NYBU1305.23 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
AMER. WHITE PELICAN STILT SANDPIPER WHIMBREL CONNECTICUT WARBLER EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL Ruddy Duck Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Iceland Gull Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Common Raven Gray-cheeked Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Golden-wing. Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Cerulean Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Vesper Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/23/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 23, 2013 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received May 16 through May 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, STILT SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, WHIP-POOR- WILL and a May Count report. May 19, 2 AMER. WHITE PELICANS were confirmed on the upper Niagara River. Found on the spit off Buckhorn Island State Park at the north end of Grand Island, viewed from across the river at the water intakes on the Robert Moses Parkway. Also the 19th, on the Lake Erie in Fort Erie, Ontario, a very rare in spring STILT SANDPIPER, on Crescent Beach at Buffalo Road. Likely only the fourth spring record in the BOS archives. May 22, a rare location for a spring WHIMBREL - Cayuga Pool, on Route 77 in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Local WHIMBREL records are typically from the north shore of Lake Erie. Another rare spring migrant - a CONNECTICUT WARBLER, May 21, in a yard near Lake Ontario in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. Also in Niagara County, an EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was flushed at Four Mile Creek State Park on May 16. On the BOS May 19th Count, an impressive species list and count from the Lake Ontario Plains section covering Olcott to the Town of Yates. Eight observers recorded at least 150 species for the day. Highlights included 2 COMMON RAVENS at the Somerset power plant, RUDDY DUCK, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, ICELAND GULL, RED-HEADED WDPKR., YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, VESPER SPARROW, ORCHARD ORIOLE, PINE SISKIN, and 28 warbler species including GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER and CERULEAN WARBLER. Also, 28 ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS and 53 BOBOLINKS. Another count section including Hunters Creek Park in East Aurora reported 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 6 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, 8 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, 13 WOOD THRUSHES, and 6 SCARLET TANAGERS, plus 8 warbler species. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. were well reported this week for a species in recent decline. In Fort Erie, at least 6 RED- HEADED WDPKRS., and in South Buffalo, 3 more RED-HEADED WDPKRS. on the South Park golf course between the 7th and 8th holes. Other reports this week - warbler lists of 15 to 22 species at locations including Forest Lawn in Buffalo, Amherst State Park, and Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER at Forest Lawn. Just 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at two locations over Buffalo. And, a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at the south end of Old Fort Erie. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 30. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
