- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/25/2017 * NYBU1705.25 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
BLACK-NECKED STILT HUDSONIAN GODWIT WHIMBREL AMER. WHITE PELICAN Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Red-headed Wdpkr. Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/25/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 25, 2017 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 18 through May 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The very rare BLACK-NECKED STILT at the Iroquois Refuge was refound on May 23 at Kumpf Marsh, at Route 77 and Feeder Road. Also very rare, especially in spring - HUDSONIAN GODWIT, May 20, along Youngstown- Wilson Road, just west of Fitch Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. Other shorebirds at this location - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and 2 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. WHIMBREL are migrating on the north shore of Lake Erie. May 23, three WHIMBRELS on the lakeshore in Fort Erie, Ontario, with RUDDY TURNSTONES and SANDERLINGS. An unexpected location for SANDERLING - the wetland at Ridge Lea and Bailey Avenue in Amherst on the 23rd, with continuing SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and LEAST SANDPIPERS. SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS are now being reported at the Mosaic Ponds, north of Rock Point Park in Ontario, and an AMER. WHITE PELICAN was still at the ponds on the 24th. ORCHARD ORIOLES around the Lake Erie shores - Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg at the south end of Woodlawn Avenue, and in Ontario at Old Fort Erie, Morgan's Point and the Mosaic Ponds. Warblers were widely reported, with BLACKPOLL WARBLERS joining the migrants on the 18th. Of note, two PINE WARBLERS near the monument at Old Fort Erie. Also this week - RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. In Buffalo, a reported PEREGRINE FALCON at the Veteran's Hospital, and at Forest Lawn, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. And, LINCOLN'S SPARROWS at several locations. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 1. 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.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
