- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/29/2014 * NYBU1405.29 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
TRICOLORED HERON Greater Scaup Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Iceland Gull Yellow-b. Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/29/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 29, 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 22 through May 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include TRICOLORED HERON, shorebirds and warblers. May 24 and 25, a very rare TRICOLORED HERON at the mouth of 12 Mile Creek, at Lake Ontario in the Town of Wilson. The heron was in the boat ramp area off Riverview Drive on the west side of the creek. Shorebird migration this week was highlighted by a WHIMBREL on the Lake Erie shore at Pinecrest Point in Port Colbourne, Ontario. Other shorebirds on the Lake Erie beaches in Ontario - abundant DUNLIN, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. In Niagara County, shorebirds in the fields on Youngstown- Wilson Road west of Hulbert Road included a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Warbler migration was still strong on May 22. At least 17 species at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo included late migrating CERULEAN WARBLER and BL. AND W. WARBLER, plus YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER and BLUE-HEADED VIREO. Also on the 22nd, 20 warbler species on a property in Wilson included MOURNING WARBLER, plus PHILADELPHIA VIREO, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Other recent reports - GREATER SCAUP at Tifft Nature Preserve. In Fort Erie, Ontario, two ICELAND GULLS lingering at Stonemill Road, SANDHILL CRANE over Erie Beach and a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES returned to the parking lot across from Old Fort Erie. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW at the Dunkirk Airport in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. And from Keller Road in the Town of Boston, 3 BROWN THRASHERS, 2 WILSON'S WARBLERS and 6 BOBOLINKS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 5. 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
