- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/07/2015 * NYBU1505.07 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] ------------------------------------------- [BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on Sunday, May 10. Meet at 7:30 AM in the parking lot for a half-day hike through the preserve. The BOS May meeting, on Wednesday, May 13, will be at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science and will feature an outstanding program on Birding in Kenya, presented by a professional guide and photographer from the Nation of Kenya. Visitors are always welcome at BOS activities.]
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE FISH CROW SCARLET TANAGER Surf Scoter Sandhill Crane Greater Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Ruby-t. Hummingbird Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird House Wren Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Rusty Blackbird Baltimore Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/07/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 7, 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. Highlights of reports April 30 through May 7 - spring migration is climbing rapidly across the Niagara Frontier Region. Nineteen warbler species were reported this week from Chautauqua County, the Lake Erie shore, Tifft Nature Preserve and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, Amherst State Park, Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island and the State Parks of the Lake Ontario Plains. There are still an almost equal number of warbler species expected to arrive by the middle of the month. Aside from warblers, arriving into and transiting through the region - RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, HOUSE WREN, VEERY, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING, BOBOLINK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, and May 7, SCARLET TANAGER at Tifft Nature Preserve. Of note, May 3, single RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at two locations on the Lake Ontario shore, and a first Niagara County record of FISH CROW, at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE, a species added to the region in the past year, continues in Niagara County at the Wilson Harbor and surrounding neighborhood. Wide ranging PINE SISKINS - 16 at a North Boston feeder in southern Erie County, and over 100 along the Lake Ontario shore. Shorebird migration lags the perching birds. SPOTTED SANDPIPER at several locations, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS at Amherst State Park and in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and GREATER YELLOWLEGS. Also this week, a SURF SCOTER at the Batavia Waste Water Plant and 2 SANDHILL CRANES at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. There will be a BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on Sunday, May 10. Meet at 7:30 AM in the parking lot for a half-day hike through the preserve. The BOS May meeting, on Wednesday, May 13, will be at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science and will feature an outstanding program on Birding in Kenya, presented by a professional guide and photographer from the Nation of Kenya. Visitors are always welcome at BOS activities. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 14. 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
