- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/20/2016 * NYBU1610.20 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
AMERICAN AVOCET LONG-B. DOWITCHER GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK PARASITIC JAEGER CLAY-COL. SPARROW Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Winter Wren Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Common Yellowthroat Lincoln's Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/20/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 20, 2016 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 October reports received through the 20th from the Niagara Frontier Region. Shorebird highlights - October 14, two AMERICAN AVOCETS at the landfill wetland on Porter-Center Road in Niagara County. On the 9th, three, adult, LONG-B. DOWITCHERS in the southwest corner of Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Other recent shorebirds at Ruddy, Kumpf and Griswold Road marshes, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, STILT SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. At Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, seen from the west dike, on October 14. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS have been widely reported in the wetlands and marshes. And multiple SANDHILL CRANES, including a young colt, at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. October 20, a late, female, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK at a feeder in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. On Lake Ontario at Sunset Beach in Orleans County, a juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER on October 8. Early in October at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on the 4th and 10th. Other warblers this month - TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, COMMON YELLOW- THROAT, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. Other fall migrants - widespread reports of LINCOLN'S SPARROWS and WINTER WRENS. And back on October 1, an unexpected CLAY-COL. SPARROW at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. 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
