- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/14/2017 * NYBU1709.14 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website.] LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE WHIMBREL Eared Grebe Great Egret Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/14/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 14, 2017 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 message. Highlights of reports received from late August through mid-September from the Niagara Frontier Region. August 31, a migrant, banded, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at Times Beach Nature Preserve on the Buffalo waterfront. The LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE is an endangered species in New York State. Shorebirds have been another highlight on the Buffalo waterfront. A WHIMBREL has been lingering between the Bell and Seaway Slips along Fuhrmann Blvd since September 5. Other recent shorebirds in this area included a flyby BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. On the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo, RUDDY TURNSTONE and SANDERLINGS. Shorebirds continue in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara County. WHIMBREL on two dates at Lower lake and Burgess Roads in Somerset, and on Ellicott Road, 12 species included juveniles of LONG-B. DOWITCHER, SHORT-B. DOWITCHER and STILT SANDPIPER, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. September 1 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE. Also, EARED GREBES at the plant on several dates. Back on August 23, a juvenile RED KNOT at Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. And at the small wetland at North Bailey and Ridge Lea in Amherst, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, numerous KILLDEER and a GREAT EGRET. A total of 20 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this month at the south end of Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, with a maximum of eight on September 10. Two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Tonawanda on the 2nd. Warbler migration has been modest - reports of 10 to 12 species at some locations. YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER and OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. And WOOD THRUSH and SWAINSON'S THRUSH have been heard during night migration. The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 21. 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.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
