- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/04/2015 * NYBU1506.04 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE Upland Sandpiper Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Whip-poor-will Olive-s. Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird La. Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Vesper Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/04/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 4, 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. BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was the highlight of reports received May 28 through June 4 from the Niagara Frontier Region. From Niagara County, it was reported that a BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK has been at the mouth of 12 Mile Creek, at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, for at least a week. The duck has been viewed from the Riverview Drive boat launch to the west, and the state park to the east. There are only three previous records of this vagrant species in the BOS archives - one in 2010 and two records in 2011. Also in Niagara County, EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE contines in the area of the Wilson Harbor. A late report from May 23, a very high count of 11 ORCHARD ORIOLES along the Lake Erie shore from Fort Erie to Rock Point Provincial Park in Ontario, including 4 at the Old Fort Erie property. Also in Ontario, WHIP-POOR-WILL calling from the Wainfleet Bog along Wilson Road. Cattaraugus County reports from late May included 20 warbler species. In the Town of Yorkshire at the northern county line, VESPER SPARROW, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and 12 warbler species including PRAIRIE WARBLER. PRAIRIE WARBLER also at Bird Swamp in Machias. On the Allegany State Park Pilgrimage - 18 warbler species in the park included LA. WATERTHRUSH but no Yellow-thr. Warblers. Also in the park, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER and BARRED OWL. PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS returned to previous breeding location in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - the woodlot along the canal crossing Meadville Road. May 29, UPLAND SANDPIPER persisted in the fields to the southwest of Route 77 and Minkel Roads in the Wyoming County Town of Java. Multiple BOBOLINKS at the this location. Other reports this week - YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO photographed at Griffon Park in Niagara Falls, New York. And SCARLET TANAGER and juvenile CEDAR WAXWINGS in a Cheektowaga yard. The final BOS meeting of the season will be on Wednesday, June 10. Meet at 6 PM at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo with your picnic dinner, to be followed by a hike through the preserve. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 11. 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
