[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Jun 2017
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/08/2017 * NYBU1706.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- BROWN PELICAN WILSON'S PHALAROPE American Bittern Least Bittern Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Trumpeter Swan Bald Eagle Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher L. Black-b. Gull Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Whip-poor-will Alder Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Yellow-thr. Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cerulean Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-br. Chat - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/08/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 8, 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 report. Highlights of reports received June 1 through June 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara River was last reported June 4, off Black Rock Park in Buffalo. Shorebird migrants are still present. In Niagara County, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE from May 31 to June 2, along Wilson-Youngstown Road, west of Fitch Road, in Wilson. In the Town of Somerset, at Lower Lake and Burgess Roads - 12 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 285 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, 1 WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, 5 DUNLIN, 7 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS, numbers of KILLDEER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER, and a L. BLACK-B. GULL. In Ontario, shorebirds at the Mosaic Ponds, north of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 20 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPER and a probable BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. Also in Ontario, heard at the Wainfleet Bog along Wilson Road, at least 6 WHIP-POOR-WILLS, YELLOW-BR. CHAT, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Later migrants on June 3 - GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and CANADA WARBLER in a Town of Wilson yard. Summer residents in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, along Owens Road, ALDER FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO and two CERULEAN WARBLERS. At Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, LEAST BITTERN, 15 BLACK TERNS, 14 BL.-CR. NIGHT- HERONS and 2 TRUMPETER SWANS. Also this week - CEDAR WAXWING feeding on berries in a Cheektowaga yard. NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD on River Road in North Tonawanda. And in the Lake Ontario Plains, a probable sub- adult BALD EAGLE taking prey from two adult BALD EAGLES. The final BOS meeting of the season will be the annual picnic at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, at 6 PM on Wednesday, June 14. Bring your meal and expect an evening hike through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 15. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cupsugue terns
Jim Cullen and I visited the flats at Cupsogue this afternoon and were rewarded with, despite the cold, a Roseate and a Black tern.Overall numbers of birds were quite low. thanks Lee Stocker -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Nickerson Beach, Nassau - Fee Details
I stopped in at the administrative office at Nickerson to check on the details regarding the parking fees. Nickerson is a Nassau County (not NY state) property. Fees are collected daily - including from seniors. Fees are collected from 9 am to 4 pm. If you arrive before 9, you can enter without a fee and your car can remain in the lot once fees start being collected - there won't be anyone looking for a receipt/ticket on the dashboard. If you arrive after 4, there won't be toll takers collecting a fee. >From 9-4 fees are: Fee for Nassau County residents who have a Leisure Pass is $12. Fee for those who do not have a Leisure Pass is $35. -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Marshlands Conservancy, Westchester County, Boat-tailed Grackle
A singing male Boat-tailed Grackle, still rare in Westchester County, continues at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye. The Grackle is with a drake Long-tailed Duck on an offshore island off Parson's Island. As this is now count period, this will constitute a new record for the 54 year old Greenwich-Stamford summer bird count. Tom Burke & Gail Benson -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay - Least Bittern YES
The least bittern continues at JBay, heard with Arie Gilbert. Mike Z. Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Kentucky Warbler, Central Park, NYC 6/8
Thursday, 8 June, 2017 Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City A late-spring surprise after a fairly quiet morning walk in the Ramble was the finding of a singing male Kentucky Warbler, near the park’s East Drive, directly across from the (west side of) the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in the rather confined, but densely shrubby cover on the NE, east, & SE sides of the very tall monolithic stone 'Cleopatra’s Needle', which is very prominent in that area & has a single walkway to its base. I heard, & very briefly saw, the Kentucky work its way in the thickest part on the southeast slope-side, while it sang about 15 times from around 6:30 - 6:50 this morning. Adding to the initial confusion from this, a male Mourning Warbler piped up from the nearby trees, & seemed to be circling around, though I last saw & heard the Mourning go to the east side of the park roadway (closer to the Met. Museum)… the Kentucky sang more often than did the Mouring, while I was there. There seemed to be few other migrants in the Ramble section at least in very early morning, and one would expect a majority of healthy migrants to have moved on, given the excellent conditions for doing so, Wed. night into this a.m. Perhaps another try later on, but it won’t be too surprising should any warblers be fairly quiet as the morning & the day go along. Best chances might be in late afternoon or even early evening. And then there might also be a skimmer-watch, as that species has fairly regularly turned up in Central (oddly) in early summer foraging session, mainly seen in evening hours, although on some past occasions also in early mornings, & much more rarely in full day-times. Referring to Black Skimmer, of course… - - - - "Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?” - Rachel Carson (1907-1964; marine biologist, conservationist, author whose books include ‘Silent Spring’. Sir David Attenborough has remarked that that book may have had an effect on science second only to Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”.) good -and ethical- birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Nelsons sparrow plumb beach YES
Possibly 2 Best at high tide Found / heard by Mike snouty Arie Gilbert No. Babylon NY www.powerbirder.blogspot www.qcbirdclub.org -- Sent from Loretta in the field -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Purple Martin Croton Point Park
There was a single Purple Martin perched on a bar of the newly installed martin complex at Croton Point Park this morning (7:05-7:15 a.m.). One of the houses is occupied by tree swallows but when buzzed by a swallow the martin did not seem concerned; indeed it took a pass at the swallow occupied house and re-perched to continue pruning. To my knowledge there are no breeding martin colonies in Westchester County. The bird appears to be juvenile not adult female. I am not sure how it can find and alert adults to this new construction, not to mention the river views, plenty of food, and winter cleaning service. But of course young folks are trumped by older folks all the time even when the adults would be well served to listen to the youth. Thanks to Charlie Roberto, Anne Swaim and John Phillips for their efforts in establishing a Westchester martin colony. L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --