- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/06/2012 * NYBU1209.06 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[Wednesday, September 12, the first BOS meeting of the season, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Members will report on their summer birding experiences, and visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER WILSON'S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE WHIMBREL PALM WARBLER Pied-billed Grebe American Bittern Great Egret Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Gadwall American Wigeon Redhead Lesser Scaup Merlin Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe L. Black-b. Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Red-headed Wdpkr. Olive-s. Flycatcher Tree Swallow Blue Jay Wood Thrush Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/06/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 6, 2012 [Wednesday, September 12, the first BOS meeting of the season, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Members will report on their summer birding experiences, and visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] 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 30 through September 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, WHIMBREL and PALM WARBLER. September 3 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER with 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and numerous SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and LEAST SANDPIPERS, plus GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, REDHEAD, LESSER SCAUP, PIED-BILLED GREBE and abundant TREE SWALLOWS. The plant is open daily, until 3 PM, and visitors must sign in at the office. In Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, at the north end of Goose or Stafford Pond on Albion Road, up to 12 shorebird species this week included both WILSON'S PHALAROPE and RED- NECKED PHALAROPE, with SOLITARY SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. September 6, a WHIMBREL was photographed at Dunkirk Harbor. Almost a week earlier than expected, PALM WARBLERS were noted at three, widespread locations between August 29 and September 2 - the Southern Tier Town of Hinsdale, Fort Erie, Ontario, and at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. In the past week, at least 17 warbler species and 2 L. BLACK-B. GULLS at Goat Island. Ten shorebird species in Fort Erie included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE and SANDERLING, plus PEREGRINE FALCON at Stonemill Road, and RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at both Kraft Road and Erie Beach. Another RED-HEADED WDPKR. this week at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, with AMERICAN BITTERN, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER and WOOD THRUSH. Two OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHERS, and a MERLIN chasing BLUE JAYS at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. MERLIN continues on Shirley Avenue, where an unexpected EASTERN SCREECH-OWL was heard calling in the early morning. In the Iroquois Refuge, MERLIN, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS, and over 200 GREAT EGRETS still roosting at Cayuga Pool. And, over Ferry and Richmond in Buffalo this week, a BALD EAGLE. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 13. 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/
