- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/02/2013 * NYBU1305.02 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[The May BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, May 8, at 7PM, at the Museum of Science. A very fine program is tentatively scheduled - Jajean Burney will present "Protecting the Birds of Mexico's Southern Altiplano", after living in the region for over two years as a Peace Corp Volunteer. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] RUFF EVENING GROSBEAK COMMON REDPOLL UPLAND SANDPIPER COMMON RAVEN Horned Grebe American Bittern Green Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Common Moorhen Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Black Tern Chimney Swift Ruby-t. Hummingbird Least Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Bank Swallow House Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Wood Thrush Gray Catbird American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Orange-cr. Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/02/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 1, 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 25 through May 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RUFF, EVENING GROSBEAK, COMMON REDPOLL, UPLAND SANDPIPER and COMMON RAVEN. The RUFF at the Iroquois Refuge, first reported April 18, was found several days this week at two locations. On the 25th and 26th, the bird was along Route 31A, west of Townline Road in Shelby, and through April 30, at the back of Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Other shorebirds at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf marsh have included an early SEMIPALMATED PLOVER on April 28, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Two to four SANDHILL CRANES off and on at Kumpf Marsh this week, and arriving BLACK TERN, plus AMERICAN BITTERN, GREEN HERON, COMMON MOORHEN, and lingering HORNED GREBE around the Iroquois Refuge. April 26, a find of 5 EVENING GROSBEAKS on a land conservancy property on the Niagara escarpment in the Town of Lockport. After a winter irruption of REDPOLLS, a single COMMON REDPOLL reappeared at a feeder in Clarence. And, 2 PINE SISKINS at a feeder in the Town of Wilson. Two UPLAND SANDPIPERS, a scare grassland species, April 28 in the Wyoming County Town of Sheldon, in the southeast corner field at Minkle Road and Route 77. Also 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS at this intersection. May 1, highly unexpected - two COMMON RAVENS briefly in a yard on Morris Avenue in North Buffalo. A fair distance from the one known Niagara River breeding location in Tonawanda, and a great distance from the expected COMMON RAVENS in the southern and eastern parts of the region. Warblers and other land migrants are undoubtedly arriving as this report is compiled. April 27, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER in a Wilson yard. Typical of many locations this week, seven warbler species at Four Mile Creek State Park in the Town of Porter, with LEAST FLYCATCHER, BANK SWALLOW, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, WOOD THRUSH, EASTERN TOWHEE, AMER. TREE SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and WHITE-CR. SPARROW. Other reports included RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan on April 30, and other reports of CHIMNEY SWIFT, EASTERN KINGBIRD, BLUE- HEADED VIREO, HOUSE WREN, GRAY CATBIRD, AMERICAN PIPIT, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, BOBOLINK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and PURPLE FINCH. Other recent reports - a hawk flight over Wilson Road in Niagara County included 11 raptor species, notably 1 ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK, 300 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, 10 BALD EAGLES, 7 OSPREY and a MERLIN. BALD EAGLE nesting continues on Strawberry Island in the upper Niagara River. At Genesee County Park in Bethany, a likely local BROAD-WINGED HAWK and COMMON RAVEN. And 10 WILSON'S SNIPE on Old Creek Road in Alexander, also in Genesee County. The May BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, May 8, at 7PM, at the Museum of Science. A very fine program is tentatively scheduled - Jajean Burney will present on "Protecting the Birds of Mexico's Southern Altiplano", after living in the region for over two years as a Peace Corp Volunteer. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 9. 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/
