- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/11/2013 * NYBU1304.11 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
EURASIAN WIGEON INDIGO BUNTING Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Snow Goose Cackling Goose Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Osprey Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Caspian Tern Common Tern Barred Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Purple Martin Barn Swallow Common Raven Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco "Oregon" Junco Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/11/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 11, 2013 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received April 4 through April 11 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, another INDIGO BUNTING and more spring arrivals. April 6 to 9, multiple reports of EURASIAN WIGEON in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, at Cinnamon Marsh, on the east side of Meadville Road, south of the bridge. Including the EURASIAN WIGEON, 21 waterfowl species in the Tonawanda, Iroquois and Oak Orchard Areas this week, and seven shorebird species. At Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and WILSON'S SNIPE, and at Cinnamon Marsh, 5 AMERICAN WOODCOCKS at dusk. Other Iroquois reports - 2 SNOW GEESE at Ring-necked Marsh, CACKLING GOOSE, multiple BALD EAGLES, CASPIAN TERN and PURPLE MARTIN at Cayuga Pool. In the Tonawanda Area - 15 HORNED GREBES, 2 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, 2 SANDHILL CRANES and 2 BARRED OWLS. Another week, another early INDIGO BUNTING - April 5 at a Sunset Beach feeder next to Lake Ontario, in the Orleans County Town of Carlton. Also, more information would be appreciated on a WARBLER reported on Boston State Road in Boston this week. Back on April 4, a report of 2 COMMON RAVENS in a hawk flight over Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. Widespread landbird migrants and arrivals were represented by lists from Forest Lawn and Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo - YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO and RUSTY BLACKBIRD. Also at Forest Lawn, 2 WILD TURKEYS. And on the Great Lakes, CASPIAN TERNS and COMMON TERNS. April 9, an outstanding count of 62 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in the sports field at Krull Park in Olcott. COMMON REDPOLLS still at many feeders, including a HOARY REDPOLL on April 9 and 10 at a feeder in Jamestown. April 8, an OREGON JUNCO at a Wilson feeder. The heronries above Niagara Falls and at Motor Island are filling up with GREAT BLUE HERONS, GREAT EGRETS and BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, plus 194 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on 80 nests above the falls. GREAT EGRET also noted on a kayak trip on Johnson Creek in Carlton. Other reports this week - On Lake Ontario, 78 RED-NECKED GREBES and 28 HORNED GREBES at Rt 63 in Yates, and off Wilson, numerous WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and two each of SURF SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER. SURF SCOTER and 2 COMMON LOONS at the Small Boat Harbor in Buffalo. BALD EAGLES appear to be tending nestings on Strawberry Island in the upper Niagara River. Multiple OSPREY pairs at nest platforms and along waterways. At Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. And a RED-BELLIED WDPKR. at a rare location - Elmlawn Cemetery in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 18. 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/
