- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/05/2014 * NYBU1406.05 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[The final BOS meeting of the season will be on Wednesday, June 11, at 6 PM at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring your dinner for a brief meeting and hike through the preserve] KIRKLAND'S WARBLER (out of region) WHITE-WINGED SCOTER Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Black Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Wdpkr. Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Veery Wood Thrush White-eyed Vireo Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Wilson's Warbler Scarlet Tanager - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/05/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 5, 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. The highlight of reports received May 29 through June 5 was from just east of the Niagara Frontier Region - a KIRKLAND'S WARBLER at Hamlin Beach State Park on Lake Ontario near Rochester. Found on June 1, the KIRKLAND'S WARBLER is one of the rarest warblers in North America, with a breeding range limited to the State of Michigan; a migrant in New York State is an exceptional find. Highlights back in the region - June 3, an unexpected, female WHITE-WINGED SCOTER at the Batavia Waste Water Plant on pond S1. Near the end of migration, a WILSON'S WARBLER at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on June 2. Other reports at Tifft this week - RED-HEADED WDPKR., YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, and a nesting pair of OSPREYS. At the Buffalo outer harbor, across from Tifft Nature Preserve, a PEREGRINE FALCON and 23 active CLIFF SWALLOW nests on the Gallagher Beach grain elevator. In the Iroquois Refuge, at Kumpf Marsh, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, 2 SANDHILL CRANES, 2 BLACK TERNS, VEERY and SCARLET TANAGER. Along the Onondaga Trail off Sour Springs Road - 4 CERULEAN WARBLERS and WOOD THRUSH. And, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS at both locations. BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS on the Niagara River - four at the Black Rock Canal at Ferry Street in Buffalo, and a single BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON with 2 GREEN HERONS on the West River off Grand Island. During the Allegany State Park Nature Pilgrimage on June 1, 2 migrant OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHERS and at the Camp Allegany site, a WHITE-EYED VIREO. Also this week - BALD EAGLE over Wherle Drive in Amherst. In Cheektowaga, SHARP-SH. HAWK mobbed by sparrows and an unexpected, reported GRASSHOPPER SPARROW on a Cheektowaga property. The final BOS meeting of the season will be on Wednesday, June 11, at 6 PM at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring your dinner for a brief meeting and hike through the preserve. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 12. 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
