- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/13/2013 * NYBU1306.13 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
AMER. WHITE PELICAN SANDHILL CRANE YELLOW-BR. CHAT D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Ring-necked Duck Common Goldeneye Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Dunlin Great Black-b. Gull Common Tern Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/13/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 13, 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 June 6 through June 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, SANDHILL CRANE, and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. June 11, two AMER. WHITE PELICANS again on the upper Niagara River, flying over the north Grand Island bridges. Since May, these pelicans have been seen at the bridges and Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. There was a second-hand report of SANDHILL CRANE with young in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, between the Stafford Marshes, on Albion Road in the Town of Oakfield. June 12, two adult SANDHILL CRANES were reported in the adjacent Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77. A YELLOW-BR. CHAT, first found May 31, was still present on June 8, in the Carlton Hill MUA, on Bank Road, 1-3/4 miles south of Middlebury Road, in Wyoming County. Also at Carlton Hill, 2 or 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, on a grassy Road east of Kingsley Road, a few hundred yards north of Moose Road. PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS continue in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area; up to 5 heard or seen this week along the canal hike west of Meadville Road. Unexpected waterfowl - not known to breed in the region - a pair of TUNDRA SWANS at the Mosaic Pond north of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, and a pair of RING- NECKED DUCKS at Mohawk Pool, on Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge. The waterbird colony on the islands above Niagara Falls, viewed from Goat Island, includes 21 GREAT EGRETS with 14 nests and 8 young; 59 COMMON TERNS, some possibly breeding; 418 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 268 nests; and 56 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS. Also a single COMMON GOLDENEYE above the falls and a PEREGRINE FALCON in the falls gorge. An increase in the number of immature GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS has been noted this season from three areas - the Buffalo waterfront, the north shore of Lake Erie and the Lake Ontario shore. Two reports of CLIFF SWALLOW colonies - 18 nests on the Town of Wheatfield sewage works building on Liberty Road, and in Buffalo, 6 nests on the rapid transit storage barn facing the Buffalo River (Creek?). Between the shorebird north and south migration peaks, six shorebird species still on the Fort Erie, Ontario, beaches - 25 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, 144 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and 4 DUNLIN. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 20. 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/ --
