- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/09/2012 * NYBU1208.09 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal American Wigeon Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Merlin Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Black Tern - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/09/2012 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, August 9, 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 August 2 through August 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Shorebirds are the southbound migrant at this time. STILT SANDPIPERS this week - two at the Modern Disposal Wetlands on Porter Center Road in Lewiston, and a single STILT SANDPIPER with 2 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. Also at the Modern Wetlands, 10 WOOD DUCKS, 30 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 2 GREAT EGRETS and 4 GREEN HERONS, plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, 9 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Eleven shorebird species on the Lake Erie beaches in Fort Erie, Ontario, included first report of BAIRD'S SANDPIPER at Kraft Road, and a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Buffalo Road. Also at Fort Erie, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Shorebirds also at Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg, by the outflow of the creek, included RUDDY TURNSTONE and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus a PEREGRINE FALCON chasing gulls. August 8, GREAT EGRETS outnumbered GREAT BLUE HERONS at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge; 171 GREAT EGRETS to 152 GREAT BLUE HERONS. August 7, an evening count of GREAT EGRETS flying into a roost on nearby Feeder Road recorded a minimum of 148 GREAT EGRETS. Other reports from Kumpf Marsh and Cayuga Pool included the appearance of single RUDDY DUCK and AMERICAN WIGEON this week, with numerous GREEN-WINGED TEAL and BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 38 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 11 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, 3 BALD EAGLES, 8 CASPIAN TERNS and many of the previously mentioned shorebirds. Also 10 BLACK TERNS including one immature BLACK TERN at Cayuga Pool, and OSPREYS in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - 6 immatures, one adult and 3 nests. And, a MERLIN continues this summer in the area of Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 16. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
