- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 10/06/2011
* NYBU1110.06
- Birds mentioned
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CALIFORNIA GULL
BRANT
PARASITIC JAEGER
SWAINSON'S HAWK [outside region]
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Scaup species
Red-br. Merganser
American Golden-Plover
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Magnolia Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 10/06/2011
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, October 6, 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.
[There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, October 12, at 7 PM at
the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will discuss results of
recent society seasonal counts. Visitors are always welcome at BOS
meetings.]
Highlights of reports received September 29 through October 6 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include CALIFORNIA GULL, BRANT, PARASITIC
JAEGER, and outside the region, SWAINSON'S HAWK.
October 1 only, a second hand report of CALIFORNIA GULL and
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor.
An early movement of BRANT on October 1; 557 BRANT over Lake Ontario
off the Town of Wilson, with NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL,
SCAUP and RED-BR. MERGANSER. October 2, 34 BRANT briefly stopped at
the Main Street Beach at Dunkirk Harbor.
October 1 to 5, just east of the BOS region, a juvenile SWAINSON'S
HAWK in the Monroe County Town of Hamlin, along the Lake Ontario
Parkway. Unfortunately, the ground feeding and low flying practices of
this rare western species resulted in a fatal collision with an
automobile.
In Buffalo, September 29, 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS at the source of the
Niagara River off LaSalle Park. Also the 29th in Buffalo, at Tifft
Nature Preserve, 7 warbler species plus YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, CAROLINA
WREN, 5 WINTER WRENS, GRAY-
CHEEKED THRUSH, 2 RUBY-CR. KINGLETS and 8 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS.
The 29th was also a good migration day along the Lake Ontario
plains. At Lakeside Beach State Park in the Town of Carlton, 10
warbler species dominated by BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, plus YELLOW-BILLED
CUCKOO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, HOUSE WREN, numbers of GRAY-CHEEKED
THRUSHES, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, LINCOLN'S
SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH.
October 6, just east of Lockport and Albion Roads in the Town of
Oakfield, 24 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 11 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 6 WHITE-R.
SANDPIPERS and 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS.
And, October 3, in a North Buffalo yard, 20 species attracted to
wild berries included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED
THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BLACKPOLL
WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, WHITE-THR.
SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 13. 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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