- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/15/2013 * NYBU1308.15 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT [Outside region - Hamlin Beach SP] Common Loon Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Least Bittern Great Egret Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Merlin Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Dowitcher species Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull L. Black-b. Gull Northern Mockingbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/15/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 15, 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. The highlight of reports received August 1 through August 15, was a NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, just east of the Niagara Frontier Region. On August 14, at Hamlin Beach State Park, east of the region toward Rochester, a NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was photographed with 25 D.-CREST. CORMORANTs, flying westward along the Lake Ontario shore. Difficult to expect an occurrence of this species; a freshwater cormorant, native to Central and South America. Back in the Niagara Frontier, on August 3, a Lake Ontario flight off Wilson included 7 early RED-NECKED GREBES, plus 45 HERRING GULLS and 43 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. At Niagara Falls, off Goat Island, two first summer L. BLACK-B. GULLS on August 1. August 14 at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a large roost of 163 GREAT EGRETS, and two SANDHILL CRANES, found on an evening hike along the marsh dike, starting from East Shelby Road. Shorebird migrants in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas included a few BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, STILT SANDPIPER and DOWITCHER SPECIES, in addition to SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. Further east of the refuges, in the Genesee County Town of Alexander, 20 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS in a harvested field on Brookville Road. In Ontario, as similar list of shorebirds from the Lake Erie shore, plus a LEAST BITTERN on Grand River at Port Maitland, LONG-TAILED DUCK at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, and a COMMON GOLDENEYE at Fort Erie. And in Buffalo, along the repaired and reopened Bird Island Pier, 30 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. August 13, a basic plumage COMMON LOON on Lake Flavia, at the Countryside Gravel Ponds in the the Cattaraugus County Town of Dayton. Other recent reports - a summering MERLIN on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. Another MERLIN at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. And a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD feeding fledged young at Gallagher's Beach on the Buffalo waterfront. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 22. 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
