- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/09/2018 * NYBU1808.09 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
AMERICAN AVOCET SEDGE WREN Cooper's Hawk Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Cliff Swallow Northern Parula La. Waterthrush - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/09/2018 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 9, 2018 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 July and early August reports from the Niagara Frontier Region. Southbound shorebird migrants provide birding subjects while local birds are breeding. July 27, a flock of 27 AMERICAN AVOCETS were photographed over Lake Erie, passing Ottaway Park, just north of Barcelona Harbor in Chautauqua County. At Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg, and the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo, recent shorebirds - KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. The same species plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER along the Lake Ontario in Niagara and Orleans Counties, plus four WHIMBREL at Olcott, STILT SANDPIPER at Lakeside Beach State Park, and two BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS in a field at Johnson Creek and Lower Lake Road in Somerset. Single SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at the Van Buren Road pond in Pomfret, and on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie at Windmill Point. July 18, an UPLAND SANDPIPER at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. During early July, a rare SEDGE WREN in Orleans County, on the east side of Foss Road, north of Route 18. Also in Orleans County, a nesting colony of 20 reported CLIFF SWALLOWS at a farm pond, and COOPER'S HAWK nesting in a horse chestnut tree on Kendrick Road. Nesting falcons and hawks during July in Buffalo - MERLINS at two locations, yielding three and five fledglings, and COOPER'S HAWKS with three young. And during the last week of June, a week of camping in Allegany State Park recorded 77 species, including 16 warbler species, highlighted by three LA. WATERTHRUSHES and four NORTHERN PARULAS. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
