- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/12/2012 * NYBU1207.12 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to NEW EMAIL [email protected] -------------------------------------------
HORNED GREBE RED-HEADED WDPKR. LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE [outside region - Monroe County] D.-crest. Cormorant Red-br. Merganser Osprey Broad-winged Hawk Merlin American Coot Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Yellow-thr. Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Parula Chestnut-s. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler American Redstart La. Waterthrush Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/12/2012 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, July 12, 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 June 28 through July 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HORNED GREBE, RED-HEADED WDPKR. and just outside the region, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. July 10, a very rare in July, HORNED GREBE, in breeding plumage, on Lake Erie off Grabel Point in Wainfleet, Ontario. This would be the BOS region's first July record of HORNED GREBE in 35 years. Also, shorebirds along the Lake Erie shore in Ontario included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER, plus 7 RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Under the Peace Bridge at Fort Erie, 30 CLIFF SWALLOWS with 71 nests and 20 nestlings. From Buffalo, an adult and juvenile RED-HEADED WDPKR., July 9, at the north end of Squaw Island in Black Rock. The woodpeckers were by the parking lot at the railroad bridge. Just outside the BOS region, July 8, a New York State endangered species - a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, at Braddock Bay Park, at the Manitou Road entrance to the Lake Ontario Parkway. Eighty-six species were recorded during a week of camping in Allegany State Park the first week of July. Highlights included an immature D.-CREST. CORMORANT on Quaker Lake, four active OSPREY nests, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, BARRED OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, and 17 warbler species including NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH. Other Allegany State Park reports - YELLOW-THR. WARBLER at the Administration Building and Maintenance Road at Road 1, PRAIRIE WARBLER at the Red House entrance, and MERLINS at various locations in the park. In the Iroquois Refuge recently, at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77, 5 BLACK TERNS, plus 3 CASPIAN TERNS, abundant AMERICAN COOTS with young, and a flyover SOLITARY SANDPIPER. In and around the Carlton Hill Multiple Use Area in the Wyoming County Town of Middlebury, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, COMMON RAVEN, VEERY, WOOD THRUSH, NORTHERN PARULA, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, HOODED WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BOBOLINK. And in a Town of Wilson yard by Lake Ontario, an immature male ORCHARD ORIOLE and 4 PINE SISKINS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, July 19. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
