- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/16/2015 * NYBU1504.16 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SAY'S PHOEBE EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK TERN American Bittern Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Golden Eagle Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Short-eared Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker N. Rough-w. Swallow Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/16/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 16, 2015 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. SAY'S PHOEBE was the highlight of reports received April 9 through April 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In the region's Southern Tier, a SAY'S PHOEBE was found April 12, on Swamp Road, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Randolph. Only one previous, fall, record of the species in the BOS archives. The SAY'S PHOEBE was seen through the afternoon on the east side of the road, across from the main parking area on Swamp Road. April 13, a EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH with AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES at a feeder in the Erie County Town of Newstead. EURASIAN WIGEON at two locations in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area this week. April 12, one at North Marsh, on the east side of Knowlesville Road, opposite the Swallow Hollow Trail. And, several reports of the previously reported EURASIAN WIGEON at Goose Pond on Albion Road in Oak Orchard. This wigeon shows a plumage feature of the AMERICAN WIGEON - a green eye patch. April 12, the earliest BLACK TERN yet in the BOS archives - one BLACK TERN between Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. Other expected terns this week - CASPIAN TERNS at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo and Kumpf Marsh, and 27 COMMON TERNS at the Beaver Island State Park Marina on Grand Island. Also early, a HOUSE WREN on the 12th, on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Still on the 12th, first BROAD-WINGED HAWKS - one near a breeding location in Darien, and 91 migrant BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over the Hamburg Hawkwatch. RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS also in Darien. On the 13th, 300 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS plus a juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE, over Lakeside Beach State Park, on the Lake Ontario shore in Orleans County. PEREGRINE FALCON this week at the Central Terminal tower on the east side of Buffalo. Shorebird arrivals - DUNLIN and PECTORAL SANDPIPER with GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS at locations in the Iroquois Refuge. SPOTTED SANDPIPER at the UB Amherst Campus and near Fredonia in Chautauqua County. Reports of WILSON'S SNIPE continue and AMERICAN WOODCOCKS are being heard calling at dusk. Multiple PINE WARBLERS at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, Lakeside Beach State Park and Oak Orchard WMA. N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS at Beaver Island State Park. AMERICAN BITTERNS noted at Tifft Nature Preserve. Other reports included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW and SAVANNAH SPARROW. On the Niagara River, 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS with 100 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Beaver Island State Park, and several hundred BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the Black Rock Canal at Squaw Island in Buffalo. Also this week, SHORT-EARED OWL on Posson Road north of the Iroquois Refuge in Shelby. And, a RING-NECKED PHEASANT with melanistic plumage, in a yard on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 23. 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
