- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/04/2018 * NYBU1810.04 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
CLAY-COL. SPARROW Brant Cackling Goose Lesser Scaup Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Forster's Tern Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Red-br. Nuthatch Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Blue-headed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Hooded Warbler White-thr. Sparrow Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/04/2018 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 4, 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 reports late September through early October from the Niagara Frontier Region. Back on September 24, an unexpected location for a rare CLAY-COL. SPARROW, Times Beach Nature Preserve on the Buffalo waterfront. September 29, a FORSTER'S TERN on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. Also, LESSER SCAUP in the harbor. In Buffalo, a single BRANT has been residing at Black Rock Canal Park on the upper Niagara River. And a CACKLING GOOSE, first found at the Erie Basin Marina, was relocated at nearby LaSalle Park on September 30. Shorebirds appear to have tapered down to SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and SOLITARY SANDPIPER on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. In the Iroquois Refuge area, at the marsh at Griswold Road and Route 77 on September 28, six shorebird species - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. Landbird migrants were on the move October 3. Thirty-five species at Golden Hill State Park, on Lake Ontario in Niagara County, included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN- CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, PURPLE FINCH, abundant WHITE-THR. SPARROWS, BLACKPOLL WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. Also by Lake Ontario, in a Wilson yard, HOODED WARBLER and ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, plus BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER and TENNESSEE WARBLER. 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
