- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/01/2014 * NYBU1405.01 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[Sunday, May 1, BOS field trip, with great potential, to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet at 7:30 AM in the Tifft Nature Preserve parking lot off Fuhrmann Blvd. This will be a half-day hike through the preserve, and visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] YELLOW-THR. WARBLER CLAY-COL. SPARROW WILLET Horned Grebe Black Vulture Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Black-bellied Plover Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Barred Owl Pileated Woodpecker Common Raven Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Cedar Waxwing Blue-headed Vireo Nashville Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Northern Waterthrush Rose-br. Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/01/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 1, 2014 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 April 26 through May 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and the inrush of spring migrants. April 26, a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, the second reported this season, at Amherst State Park. Last found in the spruce grove north of the tennis club. Also at Amherst State Park this week - BLUE-HEADED VIREO, HERMIT THRUSH, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. Tifft Nature Preserve and other locations added NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH to the list. April 29, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK at a feeder in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. And it appears RUBY-CR. KINGLETS were the most abundant migrant this week. South of Buffalo, May 1, a rare migrant CLAY-COL. SPARROW under the feeders at the Wild Birds Unlimited store on McKinnley Parkway in Blasdell. The WESTERN GREBE on Lake Ontario off Barker Park in Somerset in last week, may have been the same WESTERN GREBE reported April 25, among 100 HORNED GREBES off Johnson Creek in Carlton. April 30, early shorebird migrants highlighted by a rare WILLET, with 6 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, in the Niagara County Town of Wilson, on Hulbert Road north of Youngstown-Wilson Road. From Chautauqua County, April 25 - the hawkwatch at Ripley reported a BLACK VULTURE and over 1500 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. At Dunkirk Harbor, over 2500 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 2 ICELAND GULLS, 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS and 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS, plus a dozen HORNED GREBES and numbers of CASPIAN TERNS and COMMON TERNS. Other reports this week - BARRED OWL and COMMON RAVEN calling in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. MERLIN near a previous nest site in the Southern Tier City of Olean. Other MERLINS at Tifft Nature Preserve and Amherst State Park. 36 CEDAR WAXWINGS at a feeder in the Village of Springville. And a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS, possibly nesting, at Lakeside Beach State Park in Carlton. There will be a BOS field trip, with great potential, to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, on Sunday, May 4. Meet at 7:30 AM in the Tifft Nature Preserve parking lot off Fuhrmann Blvd. This will be a half-day hike through the preserve, and visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 8. 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 birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
