- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/15/2014 * NYBU1405.15 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
LARK BUNTING HARRIS'S SPARROW WORM-EATING WARBLER SNOWY OWL CATTLE EGRET PURPLE SANDPIPER Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Black Scoter Surf Scoter Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Olive-s. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Veery Swainson's Thrush American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Golden-wing. Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Prairie Warbler Cerulean Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting White-crowned Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/15/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 15, 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 May 8 through May 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LARK BUNTING, HARRIS'S SPARROW, WORM-EATING WARBLER, SNOWY OWL, CATTLE EGRET and PURPLE SANDPIPER. May 14, a well described and extremely rare, male LARK BUNTING at a feeder in Angola, in the Erie County Town of Evans. At Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, May 10, a very rare HARRIS'S SPARROW on the Service Road. The highlight of 30 warbler species reported this week - a WORM-EATING WARBLER on May 12 at Amherst State Park. Other warbler highlights - GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER in a yard on Lake Ontario in Wilson. ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS at several locations. PRAIRIE WARBLER at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Multiple CERULEAN WARBLERS at breeding locations in the Iroquois Refuge - along Feeder Road near Mohawk Pool and the Onondaga Trail. Also on the trail - ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER. Along with the warblers this week, multiple reports of OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING and PURPLE FINCH. One of the region's very few May records of SNOWY OWL, on the 9th, in Niagara County on Lockport Road near Aiken Road. Also May 9, a lingering PURPLE SANDPIPER at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. May 11, a CATTLE EGRET flying west along the Lake Ontario in Wilson. May 10 in southern Erie County, 6 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS with SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS on Route 16 north of Genesee Road in Sardinia. In the Lake Ontario Plains, on Niagara-Orleans Countyline south of Route 18, 115 LEAST SANDPIPERS with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. Arrival of SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER was noted May 13 in the Town of Wilson. Good shorebird habitat at Mohawk Pool in Iroquois Refuge attracted 6 shorebird species this week. Also, AMERICAN PIPITS in the fields with the shorebirds Widespread reports of RED-HEADED WDPKRS. - pairs at Tifft Nature Preserve and in a woodlot on the Lake Erie shore, north of Dunkirk. Single RED-HEADED WDPKRS. along Lake Ontario in Wilson and at a feeder at Sunset Beach. Other reports this week - on Lake Ontario off Wilson, two each of HORNED GREBE and RED-THROATED LOON, 23 SURF SCOTERS and a BLACK SCOTER. NORTHERN GOSHAWK and BROAD-WINGED HAWKS nesting at Golden Hill State Forest in Cattaraugus County. CLIFF SWALLOWS in North Tonawanda. Two reports of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS. BOBOLINKS on the Lake Ontario shore and the fields of Genesee County. Two ORCHARD ORIOLES among 10 BALTIMORE ORIOLES on Silver Road in Bethany. And, a PINE SISKIN in a Wilson yard. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 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 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
