- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/20/2012 * NYBU1209.20 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
LONG-B. DOWITCHER L. BLACK-B. GULL LINCOLN'S SPARROW PINE SISKIN D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Redhead Bald Eagle Merlin American Golden-Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Ruby-t. Hummingbird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/20/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org September 20, 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 September 13 through September 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LONG- B. DOWITCHER, L. BLACK-B. GULL, warblers, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and PINE SISKIN. September 16 at Goose Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, an adult LONG-B. DOWITCHER. Other shorebird highlights this week - AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, SANDERLING in the Southern Tier at the Onoville Marina on the Allegany Reservoir, several dozen PECTORAL SANDPIPER and 11 WILSON'S SNIPE at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, and GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and peep sandpipers at most locations. In Dunkirk Harbor, September 18, three L. BLACK-B. GULLS - juvenile, third-year and adult, plus 4 REDHEADS, 430 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and CASPIAN TERN. A strong week for warbler migration, a total of 19 species this week. Highlighted by at least 17 species at Amherst State Park, 12 species at a yard pond in the Town of Wilson, and 10 warbler species on the West Perimeter Road at the Allegany Reservoir, with 3 RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS, 3 SCARLET TANAGERS, 10 ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS and 4 PURPLE FINCHES. Other migrants with the warblers - first reports of BLUE- HEADED VIREO and LINCOLN'S SPARROW, with PHILADELPHIA VIREO, VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and HERMIT THRUSH. September 15, a PINE SISKIN at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo. Other reports this week - BALD EAGLE soaring over Ralph Wilson Stadium during the national anthem. Two MERLINS on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo, and a single MERLIN at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. And, GREAT EGRET numbers are way down on the upper Niagara River, but still numerous in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 27. 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/
