- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/22/2014 * NYBU1405.22 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
SUMMER TANAGER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" YELLOW-BR. CHAT WILSON'S PHALAROPE PURPLE SANDPIPER BLACK VULTURE Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe American Bittern Least Bittern Great Egret Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Virginia Rail Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Whip-poor-will Red-headed Wdpkr. Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Gray-cheeked Thrush American Pipit Prairie Warbler Clay-col. Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/22/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 22, 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 15 through May 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SUMMER TANAGER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER", YELLOW-BR. CHAT, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, PURPLE SANDPIPER and BLACK VULTURE. A late report from May 8 and 9 - a first year male SUMMER TANAGER, photographed in a yard in the Erie County Town of Elma. Highlights of continuing warbler migration - a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at the Berry Road marsh, outside Fredonia in Chautauqua County. In Cattaraugus County, the rare hybrid "LAWRENCE'S WARBLER" in a yard on Beech Tree Road near Bigelow Road in Ashford. An unexpected PRAIRIE WARBLER in Niagara County at Fort Niagara State Park. And, two reports of the elusive YELLOW-BR. CHAT - one on the brushy trails at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park by Lake Ontario, the other a brief appearance in a yard in Angola in Erie County. Shorebird highlights this week - a WILSON'S PHALAROPE with 6 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS and AMERICAN BITTERN in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, at Paddy #2, along Ditch Road at Griswold Street. PURPLE SANDPIPER still lingering at Goat Island above Niagara Falls, with ICELAND GULL and an albino HERRING GULL. In Niagara County, on Youngstown-Wilson Road near Fitch Road - numbers of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and a VIRGINIA RAIL. And at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES. A rare May record on the 18th - four BLACK VULTURES on Hulbert Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. On the BOS May 18 Count, the northeast corner of Niagara County reported at least 137 species, highlighted by 2 EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILLS, on private property along the Niagara-Orleans Countyline. Plus, 41 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, 22 warbler species, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, VESPER SPARROW, 6 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, ORCHARD ORIOLE and on Lake Ontario - 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 670 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 83 COMMON LOONS, 41 RED-THROATED LOONS and 6 HORNED GREBES. One of the region's later migrants - YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, May 17 at Beaver Island State Park. Other reports this week - LEAST BITTERNS on either side of Knowlesville Road, at Swallow Hollow Trail and the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. 80 GREAT EGRETS with 49 nests at the Motor Island heronry on the upper Niagara River. GLAUCOUS GULL at the Wilson Pier on Lake Ontario. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO at Amherst State Park. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. - in a Wilson yard and in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area along Shelby Road. Nesting HAIRY WOODPECKERS in an East Amherst yard. COMMON RAVEN at the River Road power plant in Tonawanda. Nest building CLIFF SWALLOW in the Southern Tier at Golden Hill State Forest. Six AMERICAN PIPITS on Hulbert Road in Wilson. And, a LINCOLN'S SPARROW at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 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 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
