- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/03/2012
* NYBU1205.03
- Birds mentioned
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[UPDATE - Two items this week - BOS field trip, Sunday, May 6, Joe
Mitchell will lead a half-day field trip through Tifft Nature Preserve
in Buffalo. Meet in the parking lot off Fuhrmann Blvd. at 7:30 AM. BOS
Meeting, Wednesday, May 9, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science.
Jerry Farrell will present a program on the 35 year history of his
banding station in the Town of Lewiston. Visitors are always welcome
on field trip and at meetings.]
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
EARED GREBE
Horned Grebe
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Black Tern
Short-eared Owl
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Least Flycatcher
Gr. Cr. Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
House Wren
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-thr. Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Common Raven
Blue-winged Warbler
"Brewster's Warbler"
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-cr. Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. 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
Eastern Towhee
White-thr. Sparrow
White-cr. Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/03/2012
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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.
Highlights of reports received April 26 through May 3 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, BLACK-HEADED
GULL, EARED GREBE, warblers and more spring migrants.
May 2 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, one of the rarest species in the
region's history, a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, passed over the watch at 3:24
PM. Also over the watch, located in Lakeside Memorial Park on Camp
Road, 32 OSPREY, 5 BALD EAGLES, and 900 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS.
Unprecedented in May, an adult, breeding plumage BLACK-
HEADED GULL, May 1, on the upper Niagara River at Rich Marine on
Austin Street in Buffalo. The gull has apparently been loafing at this
location, at the entrance to the Black Rock Canal.
April 28, EARED GREBE, also in breeding plumage, with several HORNED
GREBES, on Lake Ontario at Shadigee in the Town of Yates.
WARBLERS are pouring into the region. At least 20 species this week
included early TENNESSEE WARBLER in the Town of Wilson, another early
TENNESSEE WARBLER and a "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" at Forest Lawn in
Buffalo, and an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER continues from winter at Goat
Island, in the pines near the Three Sisters Islands parking lot.
Multiple reports from Forest Lawn this week included 15 or more
warbler species, plus an AMERICAN WOODCOCK. Other widely reported
species ? RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD,
YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER,
EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO,
WARBLING VIREO, HOUSE WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY,
SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD,
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, AMERICAN PIPIT,
EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW,
ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
Shorebird migrants lag behind warblers, but are beginning to arrive.
In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - continuing GREATER
YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, plus arriving SOLITARY SANDPIPER and
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. And, several reports of SPOTTED SANDPIPERS.
Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCONS nesting at a box on the
Central Terminal Station in Buffalo. Eleven BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool
in the Iroquois Refuge. In the Town of Alexander, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS
still on Molasses Hill Road, and 90 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS on Old Creek
Road. A probable and unexpected COMMON RAVEN over Goat Island. And, 8
PINE SISKINS at a feeder in the Town of Holland.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 10. Please
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
- End Transcript
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