- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/15/2011
* NYBU1109.15
- Birds mentioned
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AMERICAN AVOCET
WESTERN SANDPIPER
Eared Grebe
Great Egret
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Caspian Tern
Palm Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/15/2011
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, September 15, 2011
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.
Highlights of reports received September 8 through September 15 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET and WESTERN
SANDPIPER.
September 9, an AMERICAN AVOCET on the Lake Erie shore of Ontario,
at Kraft Road in Fort Erie. Other shorebirds on the Fort Erie beaches
- BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 3 RED KNOTS, 81
SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, 6 WHITE-R. SANDPIPER
and at Rosehill Road, a possible WESTERN SANDPIPER.
September 14, fourteen shorebird species at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77
at Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge included a positive
identification of a WESTERN SANDPIPER, with BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and
SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also at Kumpf Marsh, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN
SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, GREAT EGRET, CASPIAN
TERN and PEREGRINE FALCON.
Six shorebird species the Batavia Waste Water Plant this week
included a SHORT-B. DOWITCHER, plus EARED GREBE and 35 RUDDY DUCKS.
Just east of the Route 98 border of the BOS region, at the turf
farms on Transit Road, north of North Byron Road in the Genesee County
Town of Elba, another high count of 80 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS with a
WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and seven other shorebird species.
Only one warbler report this week - 3 PALM WARBLERS at the old fort
in Fort Erie, Ontario.
Plan ahead for a joint BOS and Buffalo Audubon field trip to
Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, on Saturday, September 24.
Meet at 8 AM on Lincoln Parkway, near the stairs to Delaware Park
Lake. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 22.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report
sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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