- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/25/2013 * NYBU1304.25 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
WESTERN TANAGER BLACKPOLL WARBLER RUFF AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Horned Grebe Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Gadwall Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Osprey Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Great Horned Owl Purple Martin Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Palm Warbler Scarlet Tanager Vesper Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/25/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org April 25, 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 18 through April 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN TANAGER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, RUFF and AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER. April 23, it was learned that an exceptionally rare WESTERN TANAGER, a first year male, has been a regular at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Hanover, in the Irving community at Old Main and Jackson Roads. The WESTERN TANAGER was still present on the 25th, and would be only the third record in the BOS region since 1960. The region's expected SCARLET TANAGER arrived at a very early date, April 14, in a Town of Hamburg yard. A BLACKPOLL WARBLER on April 20 in East Aurora is a record early arrival for a species that is usually the last spring warbler to pass through the region. A moulting, male RUFF, first found April 18 at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, was relocated April 24 and 25, north of the refuge in the Orleans County Town of Shelby. The RUFF was among GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS in a flooded field on the south side of Route 31A, between East Shelby and Townline Roads. Also in the Iroquois Refuge, April 21, a rare in spring AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER with an early BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER at Cayuga Pool. Other shorebirds at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh this week - KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and WILSON'S SNIPE. SPOTTED SANDPIPERS also at several locations this week. April 21 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, HORNED GREBE numbers were down to 27, with 80 LESSER SCAUP, 77 BUFFLEHEAD, 198 RUDDY DUCKS, numbers of GADWALL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, WOOD DUCK and a PEREGRINE FALCON. Other reports this week - OSPREY have begun nest building on the platform at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. VIRGINIA RAIL calling at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. In the Genesee County Town of Bethany, 2 GREAT HORNED OWLS fledged from a nest on Paradise Road and PURPLE MARTINS returned to Francis Road. Multiple reports of GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BROWN THRASHER, PALM WARBLER and YELLOW-R. WARBLER. And, at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER and VESPER SPARROW. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 2. 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/
