- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/18/2014 * NYBU1409.18 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
Eared Grebe Great Egret Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Merlin Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Dowitcher species Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/18/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 18, 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 September 11 through September 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Warbler migration stepped up this past week. September 12, a season high at Amherst State Park - 18 warbler species including a PINE WARBLER, plus multiple PHILADELPHIA VIREOS and RED-EYED VIREOS, along with VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. On the 13th, 12 warbler species at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, included CAPE MAY WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA and PALM WARBLER. And the same date, nine species and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO on the Lake Ontario shore at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. In the Iroquois Refuge this week, a high count of one adult and 13 sub-adult BALD EAGLES at Cayuga Pool, with 30 GREAT EGRETS. An additional three BALD EAGLES in the refuge area, and at Kumpf Marsh, 2 adult and 2 juvenile SANDHILL CRANES. A breeding plumage EARED GREBE continues at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, most recently on secondary pond number one. On the south berm at the plant, an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER. Also - RING-NECKED DUCK, 32 RUDDY DUCKS, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. The waste water plant in at the end of Industrial Blvd, off Genesee Street on the west side of Batavia. Visitors are welcome, and must sign in at the office building. The gates close daily at 3 PM. In Ontario this week, at Canal Bank and Hutchinson Road in Dunnville, 22 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, one BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and two MERLINS. Also four SANDHILL CRANES, in Lowbanks, east of Rock Point Park. And, September 17, shorebirds at Stafford Marsh, on Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area - KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, three STILT SANDPIPERS and two DOWITCHERS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 25. 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
