- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/21/2014 * NYBU1408.21 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
RED-NECKED GREBE GOLDEN EAGLE LONG-B. DOWITCHER RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Osprey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Common Nighthawk - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/21/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 21, 2014 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 August 14 through August 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RED-NECKED GREBE, GOLDEN EAGLE and shorebirds. August 16, an unlikely RED-NECKED GREBE at Barcelona Harbor, on Lake Erie in the Chautauqua County Town of Westfield. For the month of August, there are only two recent records of RED-NECKED GREBE, both on Lake Ontario. August 14, a probable GOLDEN EAGLE over Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. 17 shorebird species this week at West Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Highlights were an adult LONG-B. DOWITCHER and a juvenile RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, plus 8 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 23 STILT SANDPIPERS and 22 WILSON'S SNIPE. Also in the marsh - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Ruddy Marsh is entered from a parking area on Ditch Road, south of Griswold Street. August 20, a single, juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER on the Wright Park beach, at Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie. Other reports this week - a few COMMON NIGHTHAWKS finally reported - singles over Buffalo and Tonawanda, and two over Amherst. And, an unexpected OSPREY, feeding on a fish, atop a utility pole at Sheridan and Youngs Road in Amherst. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 28. 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/ --
