- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/28/2014 * NYBU1408.28 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
GLOSSY IBIS RED KNOT GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Blue-winged Teal Long-tailed Duck Red-br. Merganser Sandhill Crane Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Dowitcher species Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Common Tern Common Nighthawk Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/28/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 28, 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 August 21 through August 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region include GLOSSY IBIS, shorebirds and warblers. August 25 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a GLOSSY IBIS at Goose or Stafford's Pond, viewed from the parking lot on Albion Road. Also eight shorebird species at Goose Pond included 4 STILT SANDPIPERS. This week, at nearby Windmill Marsh, 3 SANDHILL CRANES and near Podunk and Shelby Road, a roost of 226 GREAT EGRETS. Shorebirds this week included an uncommon RED KNOT on the Lake Erie shore at Old Fort Erie Beach in Ontario. A few SANDERLINGS also on the Lake Erie shore of Ontario and the Buffalo waterfront. Shorebirds appear to have thinned down to only four species at West Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. At Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario, 11 shorebird species included two of both WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, plus LONG-TAILED DUCK, RED- BR. MERGANSER, 700 COMMON TERNS and 2600 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. On the Buffalo waterfront - 1700 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Thirteen warbler species this week highlighted by a GOLDEN- WING. WARBLER at Amherst State Park, south of the tennis club, on the 22nd. Other warbler reports - BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., CANADA WARBLER and WILSON'S WARBLER. With the warblers - YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHERS at the Wainfleet Bog and Rock Point in Ontario, and Amherst State Park. Other reports this week - one COMMON NIGHTHAWK report - a single at the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. BLUE- WINGED TEALS in Buffalo at Tifft Nature Preserve and South Park Lake. And, an AMERICAN WOODCOCK at Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 4. 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 [email protected] 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
