- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/09/2013 * NYBU1305.09 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
GLOSSY IBIS LAUGHING GULL SUMMER TANAGER WILLET Merlin Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Barred Owl Ruby-t. Hummingbird Red-headed Wdpkr. Least Flycatcher Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. 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 Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/09/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 9, 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 May 2 through May 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GLOSSY IBIS, LAUGHING GULL, SUMMER TANAGER, WILLET and warblers. In Chautauqua County, May 6, a GLOSSY IBIS at the Berry Road marsh, by the railroad tracks in the Town of Pomfret. Also an ORCHARD ORIOLE on Berry Road. May 9, two LAUGHING GULLS on the Lake Erie shore, about 40 miles apart. One at Dunkirk Harbor, on the Lake Front Avenue beach near the harbor, and the other LAUGHING GULL at Times Beach in Buffalo, which flew off toward the nearby Small Boat Harbor. May 5, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a first spring male SUMMER TANAGER, just beyond the footbridge. In the Iroquois Refuge, a WILLET on May 4, at the back of Cayuga Pool, on Route 77. Other shorebirds at Cayuga Pool and adjacent Kumpf Marsh - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Four SANDHILL CRANES continue in the same area. Warblers are ramping up in the region. At least 22 species this week, highlighted by GOLDEN-WING. WARBLERS at two locations - May 3 in the flowering trees on Mirror Lake at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, and May 8 at Amherst State Park, in the open area north of the tennis club. Another rare migrant find - a PRAIRIE WARBLER also at Forest Lawn on the 3rd. Among the warblers - YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and RED-EYED VIREO, plus RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST FLYCATCHER, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. Other reports this week - A family of BARRED OWLS calling through the night on the roof of a house in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. In the grasslands at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. MERLIN, at one time unknown as a New York State breeding species, nesting in a North Buffalo neighborhood. Another scarce breeding species - RED-HEADED WDPKR. in section K of Lakeside Memorial Park in Hamburg. And, 4 PINE SISKINS, on two days, at a feeder in Hamburg. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 16. 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/
