- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/09/2014 * NYBU1410.09 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
NEOTROPICAL CORMORANT [probable] SABINE'S GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE POMARINE JAEGER PARASITIC JAEGER CATTLE EGRET CONNECTICUT WARBLER Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Redhead Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane American Golden-Plover Ruddy Turnstone Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Northern Goshawk Horned Lark N. Rough-w. Swallow American Pipit Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/09/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 9, 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 October 2 through October 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include a probable NEOTROPICAL CORMORANT, SABINE'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, POMARINE JAEGER, PARASITIC JAEGER, CATTLE EGRET and CONNECTICUT WARBLER. Recent winds and rain off Lake Erie have filled the upper Niagara River with numbers of rare species. Most exceptional, October 7, an apparent NEOTROPICAL CORMORANT in flight with a D.-CREST. CORMORANT, moving downriver past Fort Erie, Ontario. Beginning October 5 on the Niagara River, multiple reports of up to 5 juvenile SABINE'S GULLS, plus BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, several LITTLE GULLS, POMARINE JAEGER, PARASITIC JAEGER, and both RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and RED PHALAROPE. Also, on the 5th, a CATTLE EGRET on the Squaw Island north pier. Waterfowl arriving on the river - REDHEAD, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BR. MERGANSER and a RED-NECKED GREBE. River observation points in Buffalo include LaSalle Park, the West Side Rowing Club, the Bird Island Pier, both ends of Squaw Island and the Ontario Street boat launch. In Fort Erie, numerous vantage points between the Old Fort and the International Railroad Bridge. PARASITIC JAEGER, October 4, ahead of the river on Lake Erie at Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg. Above Niagara Falls, at Goat Island this week, 2 adult L. BLACK-B. GULLS and hundreds of N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS. Away from the Niagara River, October 8, a CONNECTICUT WARBLER with 4 BL.-THR. GREEN WARBS. on Francis Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. October 7, 10 warbler species at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Other reports this week - from the Iroquois Refuge, 8 SANDHILL CRANES at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77, with numbers of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and a PEREGRINE FALCON. NORTHERN GOSHAWK over the Town of Boston. In Niagara County, 9 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 12 AMERICAN PIPITS and HORNED LARKS on Youngstown-Wilson Road at Dickersonville Road. And in Dunkirk, in Chautauqua County, 28 AMERICAN PIPITS at the airport and a RUDDY TURNSTONE at Wright Park Beach. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 16. 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/ --
