- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/12/2013 * NYBU1309.12 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve this Sunday, September 15. Meet at 7:30 AM at the Visitor Center for a half-day hike through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail White-winged Scoter Sandhill Crane American Golden-Plover Killdeer Red Knot Sanderling Short-b. Dowitcher Parasitic Jaeger Eastern Screech-Owl Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Purple Martin Winter Wren Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/12/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 12, 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 September 5 through September 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region. SANDHILL CRANES are solidifying their regular presence in the region. September 10, two adult cranes with a full grown juvenile at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. Earlier in the summer, a young SANDHILL CRANE was found in the nearby Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Also in the Iroquois Refuge, at Mohawk Pool a tagged GREAT EGRET has been present since early August, and was recently traced to a nestling banded on Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, in the summer of 2012. September 7, the BOS field trip to Buckhorn Island State Park at the north end of Grand Island reported over 3500 PURPLE MARTINS descending into the reed beds at Sunken Island. Over 20 years ago, there were multiple counts of over 10,000 MARTINS along the Niagara River. AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS continue on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. On Road 98, south of Netherby in Port Colborne, counts of 192 and 142 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS on September 7 and 8. A single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER this week, among KILLDEER, in the Small Boat Harbor on the Buffalo waterfront. A juvenile RED KNOT still at Pinecrest Point in Port Colburne, with SANDERLINGS and SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. And a flock of 31 KILLDEER on the Dunlop plant lawn in Tonawanda. On Lake Ontario this week, PARASITIC JAEGER off Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, and a JAEGER SPECIES off Wilson. Also, over the lake - WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, RED-NECKED GREBE, GREEN-WINGED TEAL and NORTHERN PINTAIL. Warbler migration carries on - 20 or more warbler species, including arriving PALM WARBLER, in reports from the State Parks - Amherst, Fort Niagara, Wilson-Tuscaurora and Goat Island. Other migrants - OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, WINTER WREN, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Also this week - scarce COMMON NIGHTHAWKS - 2 at Buckhorn Island State Park, and 3 over the Town of Tonawanda. And, an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL calling the morning in Buffalo's North Park neighborhood, at Parkside and Covington. There will be a BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve this Sunday, September 15. Meet at 7:30 AM at the Visitor Center for a half-day hike through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 19. 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
