- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/20/2013 * NYBU1306.20 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
WHITE-W. CROSSBILL YELLOW-BR. CHAT RED-HEADED WDPKR. EARED GREBE Horned Grebe Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Ruddy Duck Osprey Sandhill Crane Black Tern Common Nighthawk Cliff Swallow Swainson's Thrush Blue-winged Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/20/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 20, 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 June 13 through June 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, YELLOW-BR. CHAT, RED-HEADED WDPKR. and EARED GREBE. June 15, a single, female WHITE-W. CROSSBILL became a late pair of WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Westfield. A YELLOW-BR. CHAT continues in Wyoming County in the Carlton Hill MUA, on Bank Road, 1-3/4 miles south of West Middlebury Road. Seven other warbler species at Carlton Hill - OVENBIRD, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, YELLOW WARBLER and CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER. Also in Wyoming County, nesting RED-HEADED WDPKRS. in an area known as the Salt Brine property, a wet woods north of West Middlebury Road, and west of Skater Hill Road. Another RED- HEADED WDPKR. report from the Erie County Botanical Gardens in south Buffalo. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, the region's unique location for EARED GREBES - one adult on Pond S1 on June 20. Other highlights at the plant - HORNED GREBE, 12 RUDDY DUCKS and BLACK TERN. In the Iroquois Refuge, 2 SANDHILL CRANES at Cayuga Pool on June 13. At the adjacent Kumpf Marsh, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER and GREEN-WINGED TEAL, plus a BROWN THRASHER. Next door at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, several PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS continues along the canal west of Meadville Road. OSPREYS in the Tonawanda Area - 8 adults, 8 young and 5 nests. June 15, on a long running Breeding Bird Survey in Hamburg and Eden, an unexpected COMMON NIGHTHAWK on East Eden Road near Tassiff Terrace; the first COMMON NIGHTHAWK on the this route since 1980. Another CLIFF SWALLOW colony reported this week - 66 nests on the concrete structures at the north end of Tonawanda Island, in North Tonawanda. And, June 17, a late migrant SWAINSON'S THRUSH was heard over Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 27. 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 including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
