- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/22/2011
* NYBU1109.22
- Birds mentioned
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SANDHILL CRANE
NORTHERN GOSHAWK
STILT SANDPIPER
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Ring-necked Pheasant
Sora
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/22/2011
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 22, 2011
The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum
of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave
a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4)
for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received September 15 through September 22
from the Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANES, NORTHERN
GOSHAWK and STILT SANDPIPER.
September 16 and 20, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES were reported in the
Iroquois Refuge. First, at Cayuga Pool, then over Casey Road by the
refuge headquarters.
From Amherst, September 21, an unexpected, but well-
described, adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK, on Wherle Drive, west of Transit
Road, near the UAW building.
Shorebirds this week at Kumpf Marsh, at Feeder Road in the Iroquois
Refuge, were highlighted by 2 STILT SANDPIPERS on September 22, with
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS,
LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S
SNIPE.
Also reported in the Iroquois Refuge - increasing waterfowl species,
GREAT EGRET, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER
and SORA.
And on Grand Island this week, in the overgrown grass on the West
River Parkway, a RING-NECKED PHEASANT.
This Saturday, September 24, there will be a joint BOS and Buffalo
Audubon field trip to Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Meet
at 8 AM on Lincoln Parkway, behind the art gallery, near the stairs to
Delaware Park Lake. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 29.
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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