- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/28/2015 * NYBU1505.28 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
CONNECTICUT WARBLER Least Bittern Sandhill Crane Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Least Sandpiper Black Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Acadian Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Clay-col. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/28/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 28, 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. CONNECTICUT WARBLER was the highlight of reports received May 21 through May 28 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In Buffalo, May 25, a late migrant highlight, a very rare CONNECTICUT WARBLER at Forest Lawn Cemetery. The warbler was found in the dumping area below the ridge. May 17, UPLAND SANDPIPER was reported again in Wyoming County, on Route 77 or Cattaraugus Road, just south of Minkle Road in the Town of Sheldon. CLAY-COL. SPARROW, May 28, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Machias. Also the 28th, an unexpected BLACK TERN at a higher elevation pond off Kingsley Road at Benson Road in the Wyoming County Town of Middlebury. This week in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas - a LEAST BITTERN was heard at Schoolhouse Marsh, off Chestnut Ridge Road. Along the ridge road, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER and BLACKPOLL WARBLER. SANDHILL CRANES heard and seen at two locations in the areas. Along the hiking trail south of Owens Road near Meadville Road, a pair and a single ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, a migrant PHILADELPHIA VIREO, and SCARLET TANAGER. Also YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO calling on Meadville Road. Shorebird this week - up to 16 RUDDY TURNSTONES at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, between the far ponds. Water levels of the North Marsh, on Knowlesville Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, are being lowered, attracting SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 85 LEAST SANDPIPERS. At a wet spot along Ridge Lea Road in Amherst, 7 LEAST SANDPIPERS. Other recent reports - GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was heard among night migrant VEERY and SWAINSON'S THRUSH over a Town of Tonawanda yard. In Amherst, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER at the Saratoga Road park in Snyder. And, just 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at two locations. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 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
