- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/22/2013 * NYBU1308.22 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Gadwall American Wigeon Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Merlin Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/22/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 22, 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 August 15 through August 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region. August 18, leading the fall migrants - a YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER in a Williamsville yard. MERLINS in the City of Buffalo - in addition to nesting in the Parkside area of the city this summer, two or three MERLINS have been regulars this month on Shirley Avenue near the UB Main Street Campus. Good habitat and at least 14 shorebird species in the Iroquois Refuge and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. At Ring-neck Marsh, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 130 LEAST SANDPIPERS, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and several SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS, plus 14 CASPIAN TERNS. Across the road from Cayuga Pool, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and 8 WILSON'S SNIPE. Six STILT SANDPIPERS at Kumpf Marsh. And in the Oak Orchard Area at Windmill Marsh, along the dike from East Shelby Road, 50 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS with SOLITARY SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Shorebirds at the Batavia Waste Water Plant included GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER and peep sandpipers, plus WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE- WINGED TEAL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, HOODED MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. On the Lake Erie beaches in Fort Erie, Ontario, 8 shorebird species included SANDERLING, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. A near adult L. BLACK-B. GULL on Kraft Road in Fort Erie, and a MERLIN at the Fort Erie rocks. And on Grand Island this week, BALTIMORE ORIOLES continue at a jelly feeder. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 29. 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
