- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/06/2013 * NYBU1306.06 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[The final BOS meeting of the year will be on Wednesday, June 12, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring your picnic dinner and meet at 6 PM at the Visitor Center for a meeting and evening hike through the preserve.] YELLOW-BR. CHAT GLAUCOUS GULL PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Canvasback Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Cerulean Warbler Ovenbird La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Bobolink Orchard Oriole Purple Finch Red Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/06/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 6, 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 30 through June 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-BR. CHAT, GLAUCOUS GULL and PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. May 31, a scarce YELLOW-BR. CHAT was found in the Carlton Hill MUA, in the Wyoming County Town of Middlebury. The elusive chat was on the west side of Bank Road, 1-3/4 miles south of West Middlebury Road. Further south on Bank Road, a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and multiple BOBOLINKS, north of the parking area. On Lake Ontario, June 1, a late GLAUCOUS GULL off Sunset Beach in the Orleans County Town of Carlton. June 4, two PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS singing at a recent breeding location - the woods on either side of the canal west of Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. A woodland Breeding Bird Census on state land in the Allegany County Town of Ward recorded singing males of 23 species, starting at Brown and Vandermark Roads reported CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, OVENBIRD, MOURNING WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and CANADA WARBLER, plus GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, SCARLET TANAGER, DARK-EYED JUNCO and PURPLE FINCH. Also on Vandermark Road, one mile from the flashing light at Five Corners, a PINE WARBLER. Allegany State Park is also alive with breeding birds. A weekend visit recorded at least 100 species, highlighted by a rare but regular breeding YELLOW-THR. WARBLER at the east end of the maintenance road at Red House Lake. Other warblers of note - NORTHERN PARULA, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, LA. WATERTHRUSH and CERULEAN WARBLER, plus possible breeding MERLIN by the Administration Building. Also in park - RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, numerous YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, BARRED OWL, CLIFF SWALLOW, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, ORCHARD ORIOLE, a passing flock of 12 RED CROSSBILLS and an unexpected CANVASBACK on Red House Lake. Other reports this week - at Sprague Brook Park in southern Erie County, EASTERN TOWHEE, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. and 3 INDIGO BUNTINGS. BALD EAGLE fishing at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek and Lake Erie in Hanover. A pair of OSPREYS, but no nest located yet, at the mouth of Johnson Creek and Lake Ontario in Carlton. And, a few COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over of some parts of Buffalo. The final BOS meeting of the year will be on Wednesday, June 12, at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring your picnic dinner and meet at 6 PM at the Visitor Center for a meeting and evening hike through the preserve. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 13. 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/
