- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/30/2015 * NYBU1504.30 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT Common Loon Red-necked Grebe American Bittern Green Heron Eurasian Wigeon Surf Scoter Virginia Rail Sora Sandhill Crane Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Forster's Tern Cliff Swallow Common Raven Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Yellow Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Northern Waterthrush Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/30/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 30, 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. Highlights of reports received April 23 through April 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The NEOTROPIC CORMORANT discovered in the Chautauqua County Town of Pomfret on April 23, was reported April 24 and 25 at the private pond, viewed from Van Buren Road, east of Route 5. Searchers on April 26 did not relocated the cormorant. Other reports from Chautauqua County included ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL at Lake Erie State Park in Portland, and 2 FORSTER'S TERNS at Point Gratiot, adjacent to Dunkirk Harbor. Chautauqua County also provided the most warblers to date - five species at the SUNY College Lodge on Route 380 in Portland - NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER and PINE WARBLER, plus BLUE- HEADED VIREO and BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER. Warblers at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, as of April 29 - YELLOW WARBLER, PALM WARBLER and YELLOW-R. WARBLER, with PURPLE FINCH and PINE SISKIN. From the Iroquois Refuge, April 25, EURASIAN WIGEON on Mohawk Pool, viewed from both the Kanyoo Trail and the Feeder Road at Kumpf Marsh. Two SANDHILL CRANES also at Kumpf Marsh. April 26, highlights at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, included arriving GREEN HERON and at the Lake Erie shore, 4 passing COMMON RAVENS. Also at Tifft Nature Preserve, AMERICAN BITTERN, BROWN THRASHER, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW and 2 FOX SPARROWS. Other reports this week - migrants along Lake Ontario off Route 425 in Wilson included 40 RED-NECKED GREBES, SURF SCOTER and numbers of COMMON LOONS and BONAPARTE'S GULLS. SORA and VIRGINIA RAIL at the Berry Road marsh in Pomfret. CLIFF SWALLOWS returned to nest sites in North Tonawanda. And, small numbers of WHITE-THR. SPARROWS at several locations. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 7. 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/ --
