- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/05/2013 * NYBU1309.05 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[BOS Field Trip - Purple Martin evening roost on the Niagara River. Saturday evening, September 7, Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. Meet at the eastern parking lot at 5:45 PM for a short hike to observe abundant martins arriving in the river marshes before sunset. First BOS meeting of the season - Wednesday, September 11, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Members will report on summer birding experiences. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings and field trips.] PURPLE GALLINULE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE RED KNOT GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER L. BLACK-B. GULL Great Egret Black Vulture Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Barred Owl Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/05/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 5, 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 29 through September 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PURPLE GALLINULE, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, RED KNOT, GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER and L. BLACK-B. GULL. August 31, a reported PURPLE GALLINULE in Orleans County, on Johnson Creek in the marsh at the Route 18 bridge in the Town of Carlton. This very rare species was observed from a canoe. Two of the original three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES continue at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, most recent report September 1. The phalaropes have been swimming off the dikes around Secondary Pond #1. One of the less common shorebird migrants in the region - a juvenile RED KNOT, September 1 to 3, on the Lake Erie shore at Pinecrest Point, east of Port Colbourne, Ontario. Other shorebirds at this location - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. Also on the Lake Erie beaches in Ontario - RUDDY TURNSTONE, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER at Rock Point Provincial Park, and another BAIRD'S SANDPIPER at Kraft Road in Fort Erie. Away from the shore, on Road 98, south of Netherby in Port Colbourne, 56 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 200 KILLDEER. At the Mosaic Ponds near Rock Point, 6 SANDHILL CRANES, and on Wilson Road at the Wainfleet Bog, a WHIP-POOR-WILL was heard calling. Shorebirds and gulls on the Lewiston Reservoir this week - 5 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 8 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. Just east of the region's boundry at Route 98 north of Batavia, 8 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS on North Byron Road. Warbler migrants were highlighted by a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Amherst State Park, August 30 to September 1, north of the bridge over Ellicott Creek. The GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER was one of 17 warbler species at the park, plus OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, BL.- GR. GNATCATCHER and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Another OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER this week at Fort Niagara State Park, near the oak grove. Also this week - GREAT EGRETS still feeding two young above Niagara Falls. Two BLACK VULTURES at the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, likely members of the unique BLACK VULTURE residents in this area. And multiple BARRED OWLS calling on Owen Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. BOS Field Trip - Purple Martin evening roost on the Niagara River. Saturday evening, September 7, Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. Meet at the eastern parking lot at 5:45 PM for a short hike to observe abundant martins arriving in the river marshes before sunset. The first BOS meeting of the season - 7 PM, Wednesday, September 11, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Members will report on summer birding experiences. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings and field trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 12. 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
