- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/16/2012 * NYBU1208.16 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
Sharp-sh. Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Barred Owl Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-r. Warbler Mourning Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/16/2012 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, August 16, 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 August 9 through August 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region. August 11, an early RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, one day only, on private property in Port Colborne, Ontario. A productive shorebird habitat temporarily emerged by a drained section of the Erie Canal in the Orleans County Town of Gaines, along Presbyterian Road in Knowlesville. A BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was the highlight on August 9 and 10, with numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER, plus a passing PEREGRINE FALCON and PILEATED WOODPECKER. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant this week, four shorebird species - LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. August 11, early movement of warblers was noted by an immature MOURNING WARBLER and adult YELLOW-R. WARBLER at a yard pond near Lake Ontario in the Town of Wilson. Raptors on the move also - SHARP-SH. HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL and MERLIN in southeast Cattaraugus County. And, a BARRED OWL this week in a Town of Elma yard. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 23. 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/
