- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/31/2012
* NYBU1205.31
- Birds mentioned
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LITTLE BLUE HERON
GLOSSY IBIS
SNOWY EGRET
RED-THROATED LOON
WHIP-POOR-WILL
YELLOW-BR. CHAT
Horned Grebe
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
Bonaparte's Gull
Acadian Flycatcher
Pine Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Canada Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/31/2012
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, May 31, 2012
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 May 24 through May 31 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include LITTLE BLUE HERON, GLOSSY IBIS, SNOWY
EGRET, RED-THROATED LOON, WHIP-POOR-WILL and YELLOW-BR. CHAT.
A trio of vagrant waders this week. A very rare, adult, LITTLE BLUE
HERON, May 28, on the University at Buffalo North Campus. The heron
was found in the morning only, moving between Lake LaSalle and
Ellicott Creek at Saint Rita's Lane, west of Millersport Highway.
The morning of May 30 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a
GLOSSY IBIS at North Marsh, across Knowlesville Road from the Swallow
Hollow Trail. Seen from both the road and the boardwalk, the ibis has
not been relocated.
And back on May 19 and for several days after, a SNOWY EGRET at the
far west boundary of the BOS region, on the Grand River in Port
Maitland, Ontario.
May 30 and 31, an unexpected RED-THROATED LOON, in breeding plumage,
at Sinking Ponds Nature Trails in East Aurora, located at the north
end of Pine Street, off Main Street.
Just after dark on May 24, a calling WHIP-POOR-WILL in the City of
Buffalo, on Shirley Avenue near Bailey Avenue.
May 25, a YELLOW-BR. CHAT was reported in Wrights Corners, in the
Town of Newstead.
SANDHILL CRANES this week at two widely spaced locations - one over
Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, and five over
Cinnamon Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area.
On the Lake Erie shore in Ontario this week, 11 shorebird species at
Rock Point Provincial Park included 5 WHIMBRELS, and at Long Beach
Conservation Area in Wainfleet, 11 WHIMBRELS. Other shorebirds on the
beaches - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE,
SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER,
DUNLIN and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER.
The drained Cinnamon Marsh, east of Meadville Road in the Tonawanda
Wildlife Management Area, continues to attract shorebirds, including
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, numerous SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER
and LEAST SANDPIPER, and up to 7 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS, plus BLUE-WINGED
TEAL and NORTHERN SHOVELER.
May 26, trailing warbler migrants at Golden Hill State Park in
Somerset included BLACKPOLL WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER, plus PINE
WARBLER near the lighthouse. On Lake Ontario at Golden Hill, 3 HORNED
GREBES and 11 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Another PINE WARBLER in the Lake
Ontario Plains, near the popcorn stand on Route 78 in Olcott.
Also this week, at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, a singing
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 7. 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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