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[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 21 Jun 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/21/2012 * NYBU1206.21 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- AMER. WHITE PELICAN LAUGHING GULL BLACK VULTURE WORM-EATING WARBLER UPLAND SANDPIPER WHIP-POOR-WILL Great Egret Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Ruffed Grouse Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Barred Owl Whip-poor-will Yellow-b. Sapsucker Common Raven Winter Wren Blue-headed Vireo Grasshopper Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/21/2012 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, June 21, 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 the past two weeks, June 7 to June 21, include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, LAUGHING GULL, BLACK VULTURE, WORM-EATING WARBLER, UPLAND SANDPIPER and WHIP-POOR-WILL. June 15, on Lake Ontario off Sunset Beach, at the mouth of Johnson Creeek in the Orleans County Town of Carlton, two AMER. WHITE PELICANS. Other recent Lake Ontario reports - FORSTER'S TERN and unexpected BLACK TERN at Olcottt Beach. Three LITTLE GULLS with 45 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 75 COMMON TERNS at the Coast Guard Station at Fort Niagara State Park. And PINE SISKINS, including a flock of 30 at Olcott on June 9. In Fort Erie, Ontario, June 13, a single report of an adult LAUGHING GULL at Waverly or Erie Beach. On the lower Niagara River at Lewiston, a BLACK VULTURE soaring over the boat launch. BLACK VULTURES have wintered in Lewiston in recent years, but had not been reported during the summer. In the far Southern Tier, one the region's rare and elusive warblers - the WORM-EATING WARBLER, has been heard singing, with 15 other warbler species, at Woodchuck Hill Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Carroll. Other Southern Tier reports noted RUFFED GROUSE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, BROAD- WINGED HAWK, BARRED OWL, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, COMMON RAVEN, WINTER WREN and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. Several recent reports of 3 UPLAND SANDPIPERS and 4 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS in the landfill grasses at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. The Wainfleet Bog, at Highway 3 and Wilson Road in the Ontario, is the region's unique location for WHIP-POOR-WILLS - six were heard calling from Wilson Road the evening of June 8. GREAT EGRETS continue to roost and disperse on the upper Niagara River and at Woods Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Also this week, in the Town of Tonawanda, an unexpected NORTHERN HARRIER and even more surprising, an out of habitat DARK-EYED JUNCO at a Tonawanda feeder. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 28. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 21 Jun 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/21/2012 * NYBU1206.21 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- AMER. WHITE PELICAN LAUGHING GULL BLACK VULTURE WORM-EATING WARBLER UPLAND SANDPIPER WHIP-POOR-WILL Great Egret Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Ruffed Grouse Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Barred Owl Whip-poor-will Yellow-b. Sapsucker Common Raven Winter Wren Blue-headed Vireo Grasshopper Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/21/2012 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, June 21, 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 the past two weeks, June 7 to June 21, include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, LAUGHING GULL, BLACK VULTURE, WORM-EATING WARBLER, UPLAND SANDPIPER and WHIP-POOR-WILL. June 15, on Lake Ontario off Sunset Beach, at the mouth of Johnson Creeek in the Orleans County Town of Carlton, two AMER. WHITE PELICANS. Other recent Lake Ontario reports - FORSTER'S TERN and unexpected BLACK TERN at Olcottt Beach. Three LITTLE GULLS with 45 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 75 COMMON TERNS at the Coast Guard Station at Fort Niagara State Park. And PINE SISKINS, including a flock of 30 at Olcott on June 9. In Fort Erie, Ontario, June 13, a single report of an adult LAUGHING GULL at Waverly or Erie Beach. On the lower Niagara River at Lewiston, a BLACK VULTURE soaring over the boat launch. BLACK VULTURES have wintered in Lewiston in recent years, but had not been reported during the summer. In the far Southern Tier, one the region's rare and elusive warblers - the WORM-EATING WARBLER, has been heard singing, with 15 other warbler species, at Woodchuck Hill Road in the Chautauqua County Town of Carroll. Other Southern Tier reports noted RUFFED GROUSE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, BROAD- WINGED HAWK, BARRED OWL, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, COMMON RAVEN, WINTER WREN and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. Several recent reports of 3 UPLAND SANDPIPERS and 4 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS in the landfill grasses at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. The Wainfleet Bog, at Highway 3 and Wilson Road in the Ontario, is the region's unique location for WHIP-POOR-WILLS - six were heard calling from Wilson Road the evening of June 8. GREAT EGRETS continue to roost and disperse on the upper Niagara River and at Woods Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Also this week, in the Town of Tonawanda, an unexpected NORTHERN HARRIER and even more surprising, an out of habitat DARK-EYED JUNCO at a Tonawanda feeder. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 28. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 07 Jun 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/07/2012 * NYBU1206.07 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Wednesday, June 13, the final BOS meeting of the season will be the annual picnic at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring your dinner, and meet by the Center at 6 PM. A hike through the preserve will follow the meeting. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN RED-THROATED LOON WILSON'S PHALAROPE D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Gadwall Greater Scaup Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Merlin Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Purple Martin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Tennessee Warbler Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler Field Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/07/2012 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, June 7, 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 May 31 through June 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, RED-THROATED LOON and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. June 3 and 4, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN on Lisa Pond at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. The RED-THROATED LOON, first reported May 30 at Sinking Ponds Nature Trails in East Aurora, was last seen the morning of June 4, and not found later in the day. At Cinnamon Marsh, on the east side of Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, four WILSON'S PHALAROPES on June 3, with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 57 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS. PURPLE MARTIN boxes have been a success in the Alabama Swamps areas. Five boxes, on Tibbets Road, Meadville Road and Albion Road, housed 41 nests with 211 eggs at the end of May. Adult and hatch year PURPLE MARTINS have been feeding at Kumpf Marsh and the Feeder Canal. Also in the swamps, BALD EAGLES have been fledged or are close to fledging from three nests. At North Marsh, on Knowlesville Road in the Oak Orchard Area, a singing PINE WARBLER on June 3. Late migrant warblers at Lake Ontario in Wilson this week included TENNESSEE WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKPOLL WARBLER and MOURNING WARBLER, plus a PINE SISKIN. June 6 on the islands above the Horseshoe Falls, viewed from Goat Island, 10 GREAT EGRETS with 17 nestlings, 88 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, and 536 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 188 nests. On the gorge wall, PEREGRINE FALCON feeding three nestlings, and on the cataract waters, GREATER SCAUP, GADWALL, 7 COMMON MERGANSERS and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Also, a COMMON LOON above the falls at the water control gates. Other reports this week - In a grassland field in the Genesee County Town of Alexander, ALDER FLYCATCHER, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW WARBLER, FIELD SPARROW, 2 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, 30 BOBOLINKS and 5 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. In Buffalo, MERLINS calling, about a mile apart, on both Shirley Avenue and Woodbridge Avenue. And, often heard, but rarely spotted, a VIRGINIA RAIL was observed at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. The Bird Report will not be updated until Thursday evening, June 21. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 07 Jun 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/07/2012 * NYBU1206.07 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Wednesday, June 13, the final BOS meeting of the season will be the annual picnic at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Bring your dinner, and meet by the Center at 6 PM. A hike through the preserve will follow the meeting. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN RED-THROATED LOON WILSON'S PHALAROPE D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Gadwall Greater Scaup Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Merlin Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Purple Martin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Tennessee Warbler Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler Field Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/07/2012 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, June 7, 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 May 31 through June 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, RED-THROATED LOON and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. June 3 and 4, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN on Lisa Pond at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. The RED-THROATED LOON, first reported May 30 at Sinking Ponds Nature Trails in East Aurora, was last seen the morning of June 4, and not found later in the day. At Cinnamon Marsh, on the east side of Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, four WILSON'S PHALAROPES on June 3, with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 57 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS. PURPLE MARTIN boxes have been a success in the Alabama Swamps areas. Five boxes, on Tibbets Road, Meadville Road and Albion Road, housed 41 nests with 211 eggs at the end of May. Adult and hatch year PURPLE MARTINS have been feeding at Kumpf Marsh and the Feeder Canal. Also in the swamps, BALD EAGLES have been fledged or are close to fledging from three nests. At North Marsh, on Knowlesville Road in the Oak Orchard Area, a singing PINE WARBLER on June 3. Late migrant warblers at Lake Ontario in Wilson this week included TENNESSEE WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKPOLL WARBLER and MOURNING WARBLER, plus a PINE SISKIN. June 6 on the islands above the Horseshoe Falls, viewed from Goat Island, 10 GREAT EGRETS with 17 nestlings, 88 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, and 536 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 188 nests. On the gorge wall, PEREGRINE FALCON feeding three nestlings, and on the cataract waters, GREATER SCAUP, GADWALL, 7 COMMON MERGANSERS and RED-BR. MERGANSER. Also, a COMMON LOON above the falls at the water control gates. Other reports this week - In a grassland field in the Genesee County Town of Alexander, ALDER FLYCATCHER, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW WARBLER, FIELD SPARROW, 2 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, 30 BOBOLINKS and 5 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. In Buffalo, MERLINS calling, about a mile apart, on both Shirley Avenue and Woodbridge Avenue. And, often heard, but rarely spotted, a VIRGINIA RAIL was observed at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence. The Bird Report will not be updated until Thursday evening, June 21. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 31 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/31/2012 * NYBU1205.31 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- LITTLE BLUE HERON GLOSSY IBIS SNOWY EGRET RED-THROATED LOON WHIP-POOR-WILL YELLOW-BR. CHAT Horned Grebe Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Acadian Flycatcher Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/31/2012 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, May 31, 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 May 24 through May 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LITTLE BLUE HERON, GLOSSY IBIS, SNOWY EGRET, RED-THROATED LOON, WHIP-POOR-WILL and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. A trio of vagrant waders this week. A very rare, adult, LITTLE BLUE HERON, May 28, on the University at Buffalo North Campus. The heron was found in the morning only, moving between Lake LaSalle and Ellicott Creek at Saint Rita's Lane, west of Millersport Highway. The morning of May 30 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a GLOSSY IBIS at North Marsh, across Knowlesville Road from the Swallow Hollow Trail. Seen from both the road and the boardwalk, the ibis has not been relocated. And back on May 19 and for several days after, a SNOWY EGRET at the far west boundary of the BOS region, on the Grand River in Port Maitland, Ontario. May 30 and 31, an unexpected RED-THROATED LOON, in breeding plumage, at Sinking Ponds Nature Trails in East Aurora, located at the north end of Pine Street, off Main Street. Just after dark on May 24, a calling WHIP-POOR-WILL in the City of Buffalo, on Shirley Avenue near Bailey Avenue. May 25, a YELLOW-BR. CHAT was reported in Wrights Corners, in the Town of Newstead. SANDHILL CRANES this week at two widely spaced locations - one over Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, and five over Cinnamon Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. On the Lake Erie shore in Ontario this week, 11 shorebird species at Rock Point Provincial Park included 5 WHIMBRELS, and at Long Beach Conservation Area in Wainfleet, 11 WHIMBRELS. Other shorebirds on the beaches - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. The drained Cinnamon Marsh, east of Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, continues to attract shorebirds, including SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, numerous SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, and up to 7 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS, plus BLUE-WINGED TEAL and NORTHERN SHOVELER. May 26, trailing warbler migrants at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset included BLACKPOLL WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER, plus PINE WARBLER near the lighthouse. On Lake Ontario at Golden Hill, 3 HORNED GREBES and 11 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Another PINE WARBLER in the Lake Ontario Plains, near the popcorn stand on Route 78 in Olcott. Also this week, at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, a singing ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 31 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/31/2012 * NYBU1205.31 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- LITTLE BLUE HERON GLOSSY IBIS SNOWY EGRET RED-THROATED LOON WHIP-POOR-WILL YELLOW-BR. CHAT Horned Grebe Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Acadian Flycatcher Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/31/2012 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, May 31, 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 May 24 through May 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LITTLE BLUE HERON, GLOSSY IBIS, SNOWY EGRET, RED-THROATED LOON, WHIP-POOR-WILL and YELLOW-BR. CHAT. A trio of vagrant waders this week. A very rare, adult, LITTLE BLUE HERON, May 28, on the University at Buffalo North Campus. The heron was found in the morning only, moving between Lake LaSalle and Ellicott Creek at Saint Rita's Lane, west of Millersport Highway. The morning of May 30 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a GLOSSY IBIS at North Marsh, across Knowlesville Road from the Swallow Hollow Trail. Seen from both the road and the boardwalk, the ibis has not been relocated. And back on May 19 and for several days after, a SNOWY EGRET at the far west boundary of the BOS region, on the Grand River in Port Maitland, Ontario. May 30 and 31, an unexpected RED-THROATED LOON, in breeding plumage, at Sinking Ponds Nature Trails in East Aurora, located at the north end of Pine Street, off Main Street. Just after dark on May 24, a calling WHIP-POOR-WILL in the City of Buffalo, on Shirley Avenue near Bailey Avenue. May 25, a YELLOW-BR. CHAT was reported in Wrights Corners, in the Town of Newstead. SANDHILL CRANES this week at two widely spaced locations - one over Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, and five over Cinnamon Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. On the Lake Erie shore in Ontario this week, 11 shorebird species at Rock Point Provincial Park included 5 WHIMBRELS, and at Long Beach Conservation Area in Wainfleet, 11 WHIMBRELS. Other shorebirds on the beaches - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. The drained Cinnamon Marsh, east of Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, continues to attract shorebirds, including SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, numerous SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, and up to 7 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS, plus BLUE-WINGED TEAL and NORTHERN SHOVELER. May 26, trailing warbler migrants at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset included BLACKPOLL WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER, plus PINE WARBLER near the lighthouse. On Lake Ontario at Golden Hill, 3 HORNED GREBES and 11 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Another PINE WARBLER in the Lake Ontario Plains, near the popcorn stand on Route 78 in Olcott. Also this week, at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park, a singing ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 24 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/24/2012 * NYBU1205.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WHIMBREL BRANT WILSON'S PHALAROPE WHITE-R. SANDPIPER WHITE-W. CROSSBILL Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Least Bittern Trumpter Swan Northern Pintail Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Glaucous Gull Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Cape May Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Northern Waterthrush Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/24/2012 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, May 24, 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 May 17 through May 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHIMBREL, BRANT, and a Big Day report. May 17, on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, 2 WHIMBRELS at Morgans Point in Wainfleet. Also on the lakeshore, at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, 4 BRANT at the small island west of Windmill Point Road. A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLE continue at this location. In Fort Erie, At Kraft Road, 4 RED-HEADED WDPKRS., And shorebirds on the Fort Erie beaches included 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and 18 LEAST SANDPIPERS. May 17 and 18, a 24 hour Big Day of birding covering the Batavia Waste Water Plant, Iroquois Refuge, Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, the Lake Ontario Plains, lower Niagara River and Niagara Falls, reported 164 species including 23 warbler species. Highlights of the Big Day - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, HORNED GREBE, LESSER SCAUP and BLACK TERN. In the Iroquois Refuge at Swallow Hollow Trail, BROWN CREEPER, CERULEAN WARBLER and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and at Windmill Marsh, a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS and a RED-HEADED WDPKR. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER along the dike west of Meadville Road, and to the east, in the recently drained Cinnamon Marsh, abundant shorebirds included over 500 LEAST SANDPIPERS plus 10 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Waterfowl highlights in the two areas were NORTHERN PINTAIL, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK. In the Lake Ontario Plains, RED-THROATED LOON and a flyover PINE SISKIN at Barker Park. In Somerset, ORCHARD ORIOLE at Hartland and Lower Lake Road, and at Johnson Creek and Townline Roads, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. Unexpected find at Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson - 4 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS plus 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS. BROAD-WINGED HAWKS at two locations. On the lower Niagara River, 4 COMMON GOLDENEYES, and concluding the Big Day at the Three Sisters Island at Niagara Falls, a GLAUCOUS GULL. Other reports this week - LEAST BITTERNS heard in the Iroquois Refuge included one at Kumpf Marsh and 2 or 3 at Ring- neck Marsh by Sour Springs Road. In Buffalo, MERLIN on Woodbridge Avenue and ten warbler species still at Forest Lawn, including widely reported BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. On Grand Island, 50 BARN SWALLOWS nesting under the docks at the Big Six Marina on Whitehaven Road. Five GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS heard in the Town of Royalton on Pearson Road between Carmen and Drum Roads. And, ORCHARD ORIOLE in the Southern Tier, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 31. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 24 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/24/2012 * NYBU1205.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WHIMBREL BRANT WILSON'S PHALAROPE WHITE-R. SANDPIPER WHITE-W. CROSSBILL Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Least Bittern Trumpter Swan Northern Pintail Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Glaucous Gull Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Cape May Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Northern Waterthrush Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/24/2012 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, May 24, 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 May 17 through May 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHIMBREL, BRANT, and a Big Day report. May 17, on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, 2 WHIMBRELS at Morgans Point in Wainfleet. Also on the lakeshore, at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, 4 BRANT at the small island west of Windmill Point Road. A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLE continue at this location. In Fort Erie, At Kraft Road, 4 RED-HEADED WDPKRS., And shorebirds on the Fort Erie beaches included 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and 18 LEAST SANDPIPERS. May 17 and 18, a 24 hour Big Day of birding covering the Batavia Waste Water Plant, Iroquois Refuge, Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, the Lake Ontario Plains, lower Niagara River and Niagara Falls, reported 164 species including 23 warbler species. Highlights of the Big Day - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, HORNED GREBE, LESSER SCAUP and BLACK TERN. In the Iroquois Refuge at Swallow Hollow Trail, BROWN CREEPER, CERULEAN WARBLER and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and at Windmill Marsh, a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS and a RED-HEADED WDPKR. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER along the dike west of Meadville Road, and to the east, in the recently drained Cinnamon Marsh, abundant shorebirds included over 500 LEAST SANDPIPERS plus 10 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Waterfowl highlights in the two areas were NORTHERN PINTAIL, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK. In the Lake Ontario Plains, RED-THROATED LOON and a flyover PINE SISKIN at Barker Park. In Somerset, ORCHARD ORIOLE at Hartland and Lower Lake Road, and at Johnson Creek and Townline Roads, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. Unexpected find at Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson - 4 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS plus 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS. BROAD-WINGED HAWKS at two locations. On the lower Niagara River, 4 COMMON GOLDENEYES, and concluding the Big Day at the Three Sisters Island at Niagara Falls, a GLAUCOUS GULL. Other reports this week - LEAST BITTERNS heard in the Iroquois Refuge included one at Kumpf Marsh and 2 or 3 at Ring- neck Marsh by Sour Springs Road. In Buffalo, MERLIN on Woodbridge Avenue and ten warbler species still at Forest Lawn, including widely reported BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. On Grand Island, 50 BARN SWALLOWS nesting under the docks at the Big Six Marina on Whitehaven Road. Five GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS heard in the Town of Royalton on Pearson Road between Carmen and Drum Roads. And, ORCHARD ORIOLE in the Southern Tier, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 31. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 17 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/17/2012 * NYBU1205.17 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- LAPLAND LONGSPUR WHITE-W. CROSSBILL COMMON NIGHTHAWK ORCHARD ORIOLE RED-HEADED WDPKR. PROTHONOTARY WARBLER KENTUCKY WARBLER Great Egret Tundra Swan Blue-winged Teal Virginia Rail Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher American Woodcock Cliff Swallow Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Pipit Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/17/2012 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, May 17, 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 May 10 through May 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAPLAND LONGSPUR, WHITE- W. CROSSBILL, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, ORCHARD ORIOLE, RED-HEADED WDPKR., PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and KENTUCKY WARBLER. May 11, a lingering LAPLAND LONGSPUR, a male in breeding plumage, still on Hulbert Road, just north of Youngstown- Wilson Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. In the Southern Tier, May 15, 150 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS at Golden Hill State Forest, at Chapman Hill Forest Road and Fire Lane Road, in the the Cattaraugus County Town of Humphrey. The only report so far this season - COMMON NIGHTHAWK, May 15, over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. May 13, from the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, two pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at Windmill Point, in the evergreens on the walk to the beach. Also in Fort Erie, four RED-HEADED WDPKRS. - two at Kraft Road and two at Erie Beach Park, and at Buffalo Road, TUNDRA SWAN and 3 BLUE-WINGED TEAL. A combined 26 or more warbler species this week highlighted by a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on the 12th, and on the 14th, at Tifft, a heard but not seen, KENTUCKY WARBLER. A "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge on the Dunlop Road Trail from the Feeder Road parking lot off West Shelby Road. CERULEAN WARBLER also in the Iroquois Refuge on Feeder Road at Mohawk Pool and in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on the Owens-Bartel Road Trail. And, several reports of later arriving BLACKPOLL WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. May 11, two GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS at the Lewiston Plateau nesting area near Artpark in Lewiston. Shorebird migration steps up at this time. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, Cinnamon Marsh on the east of side of Meadville Road has been drained, attracting SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN, plus 14 GREAT EGRETS and VIRGINIA RAIL. In Fort Erie, four SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. And on the Somerset-Hartland Townline at Johnson Creek Road in Niagara County, five shorebird species included 50 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 59 LEAST SANDPIPERS. Other recent reports - in addition to over 16 warbler species at Forest Lawn in Buffalo - AMERICAN WOODCOCK, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and PINE SISKIN. CLIFF SWALLOW at the Peace Bridge. Another PINE SISKIN and a RUSTY BLACKBIRD in a Wilson yard. GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH heard at night migrating with VEERY and SWAINSON'S THRUSH over the Town of Tonawanda. And multiple reports of HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, AMERICAN PIPIT, YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, SCARLET TANAGER, EASTERN TOWHEE, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, BOBOLINK and INDIGO BUNTING. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 24. 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.
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 17 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/17/2012 * NYBU1205.17 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- LAPLAND LONGSPUR WHITE-W. CROSSBILL COMMON NIGHTHAWK ORCHARD ORIOLE RED-HEADED WDPKR. PROTHONOTARY WARBLER KENTUCKY WARBLER Great Egret Tundra Swan Blue-winged Teal Virginia Rail Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher American Woodcock Cliff Swallow Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Pipit Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Brewster's Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/17/2012 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, May 17, 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 May 10 through May 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LAPLAND LONGSPUR, WHITE- W. CROSSBILL, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, ORCHARD ORIOLE, RED-HEADED WDPKR., PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and KENTUCKY WARBLER. May 11, a lingering LAPLAND LONGSPUR, a male in breeding plumage, still on Hulbert Road, just north of Youngstown- Wilson Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. In the Southern Tier, May 15, 150 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS at Golden Hill State Forest, at Chapman Hill Forest Road and Fire Lane Road, in the the Cattaraugus County Town of Humphrey. The only report so far this season - COMMON NIGHTHAWK, May 15, over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. May 13, from the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, two pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES at Windmill Point, in the evergreens on the walk to the beach. Also in Fort Erie, four RED-HEADED WDPKRS. - two at Kraft Road and two at Erie Beach Park, and at Buffalo Road, TUNDRA SWAN and 3 BLUE-WINGED TEAL. A combined 26 or more warbler species this week highlighted by a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on the 12th, and on the 14th, at Tifft, a heard but not seen, KENTUCKY WARBLER. A BREWSTER'S WARBLER in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge on the Dunlop Road Trail from the Feeder Road parking lot off West Shelby Road. CERULEAN WARBLER also in the Iroquois Refuge on Feeder Road at Mohawk Pool and in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on the Owens-Bartel Road Trail. And, several reports of later arriving BLACKPOLL WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. May 11, two GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS at the Lewiston Plateau nesting area near Artpark in Lewiston. Shorebird migration steps up at this time. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, Cinnamon Marsh on the east of side of Meadville Road has been drained, attracting SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN, plus 14 GREAT EGRETS and VIRGINIA RAIL. In Fort Erie, four SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. And on the Somerset-Hartland Townline at Johnson Creek Road in Niagara County, five shorebird species included 50 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 59 LEAST SANDPIPERS. Other recent reports - in addition to over 16 warbler species at Forest Lawn in Buffalo - AMERICAN WOODCOCK, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and PINE SISKIN. CLIFF SWALLOW at the Peace Bridge. Another PINE SISKIN and a RUSTY BLACKBIRD in a Wilson yard. GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH heard at night migrating with VEERY and SWAINSON'S THRUSH over the Town of Tonawanda. And multiple reports of HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, AMERICAN PIPIT, YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, SCARLET TANAGER, EASTERN TOWHEE, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, BOBOLINK and INDIGO BUNTING. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 24. 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
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 10 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/10/2012 * NYBU1205.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- YELLOW-THR. WARBLER RED-HEADED WDPKR. Merlin Sandhill Crane Willet Whimbrel Black-billed Cuckoo Ruby-t. Hummingbird Pileated Woodpecker Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/10/2012 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, May 10, 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. WARBLERS were the highlight of reports received May 3 through May 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region. At least 27 warbler species this past week, highlighted by a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER at an unspecified location in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, on May 9. Also at Forest Lawn this week, MERLIN, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, and at the first right after the Delaware Avenue entrance gate, an ORCHARD ORIOLE. Other warbler highlights - GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Amherst State Park on the 2nd and Beaver Island State Park on the 3rd. ORANGE-CR. WARBLER among 21 warbler species in the Lake Ontario Plains on May 8, found at Four Mile Creek State Park. And, 16 warbler species at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, on May 3, included a CERULEAN WARBLER, plus 3 ORCHARD ORIOLES. Additional warbler reports from Delaware Park and backyards in Buffalo, Bond Lake Park County Park in Lewiston and Greenwood Cemetery in the Town of Wilson. May 6, in an East Amherst yard, a rare RED-HEADED WDPKR., and in the Town of Cambria, a PILEATED WOODPECKER in an apple orchard on Shawnee Road. Migrants and arrivals reported this week - RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, EASTERN TOWHEE, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING, BOBOLINK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and PURPLE FINCH. Also this week - in Ontario, a report of multiple SANDHILL CRANE nestings by the Grand River at the western limit of the BOS region, and at the Mosaic Ponds near Rock Point Park, 8 WHIMBRELS and 15 WILLETS. Four SANDHILL CRANES also over Golden Hill State Park on Lake Ontario in Somerset. And on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo, 8 PINE SISKINS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 17. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 10 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/10/2012 * NYBU1205.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- YELLOW-THR. WARBLER RED-HEADED WDPKR. Merlin Sandhill Crane Willet Whimbrel Black-billed Cuckoo Ruby-t. Hummingbird Pileated Woodpecker Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-wing. Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/10/2012 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, May 10, 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. WARBLERS were the highlight of reports received May 3 through May 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region. At least 27 warbler species this past week, highlighted by a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER at an unspecified location in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, on May 9. Also at Forest Lawn this week, MERLIN, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, and at the first right after the Delaware Avenue entrance gate, an ORCHARD ORIOLE. Other warbler highlights - GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Amherst State Park on the 2nd and Beaver Island State Park on the 3rd. ORANGE-CR. WARBLER among 21 warbler species in the Lake Ontario Plains on May 8, found at Four Mile Creek State Park. And, 16 warbler species at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, Ontario, on May 3, included a CERULEAN WARBLER, plus 3 ORCHARD ORIOLES. Additional warbler reports from Delaware Park and backyards in Buffalo, Bond Lake Park County Park in Lewiston and Greenwood Cemetery in the Town of Wilson. May 6, in an East Amherst yard, a rare RED-HEADED WDPKR., and in the Town of Cambria, a PILEATED WOODPECKER in an apple orchard on Shawnee Road. Migrants and arrivals reported this week - RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, EASTERN TOWHEE, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING, BOBOLINK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and PURPLE FINCH. Also this week - in Ontario, a report of multiple SANDHILL CRANE nestings by the Grand River at the western limit of the BOS region, and at the Mosaic Ponds near Rock Point Park, 8 WHIMBRELS and 15 WILLETS. Four SANDHILL CRANES also over Golden Hill State Park on Lake Ontario in Somerset. And on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo, 8 PINE SISKINS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 17. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 03 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/03/2012 * NYBU1205.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [UPDATE - Two items this week - BOS field trip, Sunday, May 6, Joe Mitchell will lead a half-day field trip through Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet in the parking lot off Fuhrmann Blvd. at 7:30 AM. BOS Meeting, Wednesday, May 9, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jerry Farrell will present a program on the 35 year history of his banding station in the Town of Lewiston. Visitors are always welcome on field trip and at meetings.] SWALLOW-TAILED KITE BLACK-HEADED GULL EARED GREBE Horned Grebe Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Black Tern Short-eared Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird House Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Common Raven Blue-winged Warbler "Brewster's Warbler" Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Rose-br. Grosbeak Eastern Towhee White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Baltimore Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/03/2012 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, May 3, 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 April 26 through May 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, EARED GREBE, warblers and more spring migrants. May 2 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, one of the rarest species in the region's history, a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, passed over the watch at 3:24 PM. Also over the watch, located in Lakeside Memorial Park on Camp Road, 32 OSPREY, 5 BALD EAGLES, and 900 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Unprecedented in May, an adult, breeding plumage BLACK- HEADED GULL, May 1, on the upper Niagara River at Rich Marine on Austin Street in Buffalo. The gull has apparently been loafing at this location, at the entrance to the Black Rock Canal. April 28, EARED GREBE, also in breeding plumage, with several HORNED GREBES, on Lake Ontario at Shadigee in the Town of Yates. WARBLERS are pouring into the region. At least 20 species this week included early TENNESSEE WARBLER in the Town of Wilson, another early TENNESSEE WARBLER and a "BREWSTER'S WARBLER" at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, and an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER continues from winter at Goat Island, in the pines near the Three Sisters Islands parking lot. Multiple reports from Forest Lawn this week included 15 or more warbler species, plus an AMERICAN WOODCOCK. Other widely reported species ? RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, HOUSE WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, AMERICAN PIPIT, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. Shorebird migrants lag behind warblers, but are beginning to arrive. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - continuing GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, plus arriving SOLITARY SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. And, several reports of SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCONS nesting at a box on the Central Terminal Station in Buffalo. Eleven BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. In the Town of Alexander, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS still on Molasses Hill Road, and 90 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS on Old Creek Road. A probable and unexpected COMMON RAVEN over Goat Island. And, 8 PINE SISKINS at a feeder in the Town of Holland. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 10. 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.
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 03 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/03/2012 * NYBU1205.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [UPDATE - Two items this week - BOS field trip, Sunday, May 6, Joe Mitchell will lead a half-day field trip through Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet in the parking lot off Fuhrmann Blvd. at 7:30 AM. BOS Meeting, Wednesday, May 9, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jerry Farrell will present a program on the 35 year history of his banding station in the Town of Lewiston. Visitors are always welcome on field trip and at meetings.] SWALLOW-TAILED KITE BLACK-HEADED GULL EARED GREBE Horned Grebe Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Black Tern Short-eared Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird House Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Common Raven Blue-winged Warbler Brewster's Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Rose-br. Grosbeak Eastern Towhee White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Baltimore Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/03/2012 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, May 3, 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 April 26 through May 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, EARED GREBE, warblers and more spring migrants. May 2 at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, one of the rarest species in the region's history, a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, passed over the watch at 3:24 PM. Also over the watch, located in Lakeside Memorial Park on Camp Road, 32 OSPREY, 5 BALD EAGLES, and 900 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Unprecedented in May, an adult, breeding plumage BLACK- HEADED GULL, May 1, on the upper Niagara River at Rich Marine on Austin Street in Buffalo. The gull has apparently been loafing at this location, at the entrance to the Black Rock Canal. April 28, EARED GREBE, also in breeding plumage, with several HORNED GREBES, on Lake Ontario at Shadigee in the Town of Yates. WARBLERS are pouring into the region. At least 20 species this week included early TENNESSEE WARBLER in the Town of Wilson, another early TENNESSEE WARBLER and a BREWSTER'S WARBLER at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, and an ORANGE-CR. WARBLER continues from winter at Goat Island, in the pines near the Three Sisters Islands parking lot. Multiple reports from Forest Lawn this week included 15 or more warbler species, plus an AMERICAN WOODCOCK. Other widely reported species ? RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, HOUSE WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, AMERICAN PIPIT, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. Shorebird migrants lag behind warblers, but are beginning to arrive. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - continuing GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, plus arriving SOLITARY SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. And, several reports of SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCONS nesting at a box on the Central Terminal Station in Buffalo. Eleven BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. In the Town of Alexander, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS still on Molasses Hill Road, and 90 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS on Old Creek Road. A probable and unexpected COMMON RAVEN over Goat Island. And, 8 PINE SISKINS at a feeder in the Town of Holland. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 10. 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
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 26 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/26/2012 * NYBU1204.26 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- NORTHERN PARULA YELLOW WARBLER NASHVILLE WARBLER LEAST SANDPIPER LAPLAND LONGSPUR Green Heron Bald Eagle Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Purple Martin Black-cap. Chickadee [nestlings] Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/26/2012 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, April 26, 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 April 19 through April 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WARBLERS, VIREOS, LEAST SANDPIPER and LAPLAND LONGSPUR. Warbler migration begins with several early arrivals - YELLOW WARBLER with a VESPER SPARROW April 20 at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island, NORTHERN PARULA April 22 and 23 in West Seneca, and NASHVILLE WARBLER on the 22nd at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Other widely reported warblers - YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER and PALM WARBLER. From Allegany County, first report of BLUE-HEADED VIREO, April 20 at Phillips Creek State Land on Route 244 in the Town of Ward. Also, WARBLING VIREO April 25 at an unspecified location. Another early arrival - LEAST SANDPIPER, April 22 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area at the North Marsh, bounded by East Shelby and Podunk Roads. Also in the North Marsh - numbers of GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 32 WILSON'S SNIPE. A visual treat April 21 and 22, 8 LAPLAND LONGSPURS including 5 breeding plumage males, on Hulbert Road north of Youngstown-Wilson Road in the Town of Wilson. AMERICAN PIPITS, HORNED LARKS and SAVANNAH SPARROWS also at Hulbert Road and several other locations. Winter vistors still in the region - on Lake Ontario, ICELAND GULL off Johnson Creek Road in Somerset and GLAUCOUS GULL at the Village of Wilson. Two or more SHORT-EARED OWLS continue on Molasses Hill Road in the Town of Alexander. AMER. TREE SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, 10 to 30 PINE SISKINS at a Thrall Road feeder in Cambria. Other reports this week - BALD EAGLE over a Town of Tonawanda yard. GREEN HERON on the West River Parkway on Grand Island. Multiple reports of PURPLE MARTIN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.- GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH. And, in Alden, a likely earliest state record of nestling BLACK-CAP. CHICKADEES. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 3. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 26 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/26/2012 * NYBU1204.26 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- NORTHERN PARULA YELLOW WARBLER NASHVILLE WARBLER LEAST SANDPIPER LAPLAND LONGSPUR Green Heron Bald Eagle Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Purple Martin Black-cap. Chickadee [nestlings] Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper House Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/26/2012 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, April 26, 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 April 19 through April 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WARBLERS, VIREOS, LEAST SANDPIPER and LAPLAND LONGSPUR. Warbler migration begins with several early arrivals - YELLOW WARBLER with a VESPER SPARROW April 20 at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island, NORTHERN PARULA April 22 and 23 in West Seneca, and NASHVILLE WARBLER on the 22nd at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Other widely reported warblers - YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER and PALM WARBLER. From Allegany County, first report of BLUE-HEADED VIREO, April 20 at Phillips Creek State Land on Route 244 in the Town of Ward. Also, WARBLING VIREO April 25 at an unspecified location. Another early arrival - LEAST SANDPIPER, April 22 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area at the North Marsh, bounded by East Shelby and Podunk Roads. Also in the North Marsh - numbers of GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 32 WILSON'S SNIPE. A visual treat April 21 and 22, 8 LAPLAND LONGSPURS including 5 breeding plumage males, on Hulbert Road north of Youngstown-Wilson Road in the Town of Wilson. AMERICAN PIPITS, HORNED LARKS and SAVANNAH SPARROWS also at Hulbert Road and several other locations. Winter vistors still in the region - on Lake Ontario, ICELAND GULL off Johnson Creek Road in Somerset and GLAUCOUS GULL at the Village of Wilson. Two or more SHORT-EARED OWLS continue on Molasses Hill Road in the Town of Alexander. AMER. TREE SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, 10 to 30 PINE SISKINS at a Thrall Road feeder in Cambria. Other reports this week - BALD EAGLE over a Town of Tonawanda yard. GREEN HERON on the West River Parkway on Grand Island. Multiple reports of PURPLE MARTIN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, HOUSE WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.- GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH. And, in Alden, a likely earliest state record of nestling BLACK-CAP. CHICKADEES. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 3. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 19 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/19/2012 * NYBU1204.19 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CATTLE EGRET GOLDEN EAGLE BROAD-WINGED HAWK SANDHILL CRANE Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Bufflehead Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Virginia Rail Sora Caspian Tern Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Purple Martin Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/19/2012 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, April 19, 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 April 12 through April 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CATTLE EGRET, GOLDEN EAGLE, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, SANDHILL CRANE and more spring migrants. In Niagara County, April 17, a CATTLE EGRET in a pasture on Balmer Road, just east of Porter Center Road in the Town of Porter. The egret was not relocated on the 18th. Hawk migration hits full speed in mid-April as BROAD-WINGED HAWKS begin major passage through the region. In the Lake Ontario Plains, April 16, more than 1500 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over Wilson Road at the Lake Ontario Parkway east of Lakeside Beach State Park in Orleans County. Also, 4 GOLDEN EAGLES, 40 SHARP-SH. HAWKS, 20 RED-TAILED HAWKS, and single digits of OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER, COOPER'S HAWK, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL and MERLIN. And, 2 SANDHILL CRANES. Also in the flight at Wilson Road, among 100 TURKEY VULTURES, a distinct white-plumage TURKEY VULTURE, recorded one hour later, about 30 miles to the east at the Braddock Bay Hawkwatch. BROAD-WINGED HAWKS also noted this week in the Town of Tonawanda and the Southern Tier Town of Alfred. On the BOS April 15 Count, a section of Niagara County from Olcott to Lyndonville reported just over 10,000 individuals including 85 species. Count highlights included 139 COMMON LOONS, 34 HORNED GREBES, 3 RED-NECKED GREBES, 7 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 19 CASPIAN TERNS, 14 BELTED KINGFISHERS, 77 NORTHERN FLICKERS, 8 BROWN CREEPERS, 45 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, GRAY CATBIRD, 4 AMERICAN PIPITS, 4 PINE WARBLERS, 23 YELLOW- R. WARBLERS, 92 SAVANNAH SPARROWS and 4 PINE SISKINS. Wide ranging reports this week listed COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, VIRGINIA RAIL, SORA, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, PURPLE MARTIN, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, PURPLE FINCH and PINE SISKIN. Long-time Cattaraugus County birders noted their first ever D.-CREST. CORMORANTS at Crystal Lake near Arcade and the gravel pits in South Dayton. And, a Buffalo Junior Audubon Society Club reported 23 species around Delaware Park Lake, including 14 BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., 6 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, 4 NORTHERN FLICKERS, BROWN CREEPER, 4 RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, HERMIT THRUSH and 4 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 26. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 19 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/19/2012 * NYBU1204.19 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CATTLE EGRET GOLDEN EAGLE BROAD-WINGED HAWK SANDHILL CRANE Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Bufflehead Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Virginia Rail Sora Caspian Tern Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Purple Martin Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/19/2012 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, April 19, 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 April 12 through April 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CATTLE EGRET, GOLDEN EAGLE, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, SANDHILL CRANE and more spring migrants. In Niagara County, April 17, a CATTLE EGRET in a pasture on Balmer Road, just east of Porter Center Road in the Town of Porter. The egret was not relocated on the 18th. Hawk migration hits full speed in mid-April as BROAD-WINGED HAWKS begin major passage through the region. In the Lake Ontario Plains, April 16, more than 1500 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over Wilson Road at the Lake Ontario Parkway east of Lakeside Beach State Park in Orleans County. Also, 4 GOLDEN EAGLES, 40 SHARP-SH. HAWKS, 20 RED-TAILED HAWKS, and single digits of OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER, COOPER'S HAWK, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL and MERLIN. And, 2 SANDHILL CRANES. Also in the flight at Wilson Road, among 100 TURKEY VULTURES, a distinct white-plumage TURKEY VULTURE, recorded one hour later, about 30 miles to the east at the Braddock Bay Hawkwatch. BROAD-WINGED HAWKS also noted this week in the Town of Tonawanda and the Southern Tier Town of Alfred. On the BOS April 15 Count, a section of Niagara County from Olcott to Lyndonville reported just over 10,000 individuals including 85 species. Count highlights included 139 COMMON LOONS, 34 HORNED GREBES, 3 RED-NECKED GREBES, 7 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 19 CASPIAN TERNS, 14 BELTED KINGFISHERS, 77 NORTHERN FLICKERS, 8 BROWN CREEPERS, 45 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, GRAY CATBIRD, 4 AMERICAN PIPITS, 4 PINE WARBLERS, 23 YELLOW- R. WARBLERS, 92 SAVANNAH SPARROWS and 4 PINE SISKINS. Wide ranging reports this week listed COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, VIRGINIA RAIL, SORA, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, PURPLE MARTIN, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, PURPLE FINCH and PINE SISKIN. Long-time Cattaraugus County birders noted their first ever D.-CREST. CORMORANTS at Crystal Lake near Arcade and the gravel pits in South Dayton. And, a Buffalo Junior Audubon Society Club reported 23 species around Delaware Park Lake, including 14 BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., 6 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, 4 NORTHERN FLICKERS, BROWN CREEPER, 4 RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, HERMIT THRUSH and 4 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 26. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 12 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/12/2012 * NYBU1204.12 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WHITE-W. CROSSBILL PINE SISKIN PINE WARBLER SANDHILL CRANE COMMON TERN CASPIAN TERN Common Loon D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Harlequin Duck Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Common Gallinule American Coot Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker N. Rough-w. Swallow Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/12/2012 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, April 12, 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 April 5 through April 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, PINE SISKIN, PINE WARBLER, SANDHILL CRANE, COMMON TERN and CASPIAN TERN. April 8, in the Lake Ontario Plains, 2 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS and 8 PINE SISKINS briefly passing through Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, plus 5 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and FIELD SPARROW. Two PINE SISKINS this week at a feeder in Medina. Again April 8, arrival of PINE WARBLER at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk and Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson. Also at Point Gratiot, 35 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW, and at Greenwood Cemetery, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, FOX SPARROW and 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS. SANDHILL CRANE, April 9, in Cattaraugus County, about five miles south of the Village of South Dayton. April 6, COMMON TERNS arrived a day early off the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo, and with 3000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Rich Marine in Riverside. CASPIAN TERN first noted April 7 at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, with a continuing and changing plumage LONG-B. DOWITCHER. Also in the Iroquois Refuge - COMMON GALLINULE at Cayuga Pool with 15 waterfowl species including 29 RUDDY DUCKS, plus AMERICAN BITTERN and VIRGINIA RAIL. Numbers of WOOD DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL and BUFFLEHEAD in the marshes on the south side of Route 77. And at Swallow Hollow Trail, about 400 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Six gull species at Dunkirk Harbor on the 8th included L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, plus COMMON LOON and 100 each of AMERICAN COOT and D.-CREST. CORMORANT. COMMON LOON also this week on Delaware Park Lake in Buffalo and the Niagara River off the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. April 11, two female HARLEQUIN DUCKS still above Niagara Falls, viewed from the Three Sisters Islands on Goat Island. At the falls heronry, 141 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 13 GREAT EGRETS on nest. PEREGRINE FALCON on the Canadian gorge wall, viewed from Terrapin Point. And, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW at Goat Island. And in late March, GREAT HORNED OWL in yard on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 19. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 12 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/12/2012 * NYBU1204.12 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WHITE-W. CROSSBILL PINE SISKIN PINE WARBLER SANDHILL CRANE COMMON TERN CASPIAN TERN Common Loon D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Harlequin Duck Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Common Gallinule American Coot Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker N. Rough-w. Swallow Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Yellow-r. Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/12/2012 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, April 12, 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 April 5 through April 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, PINE SISKIN, PINE WARBLER, SANDHILL CRANE, COMMON TERN and CASPIAN TERN. April 8, in the Lake Ontario Plains, 2 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS and 8 PINE SISKINS briefly passing through Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park, plus 5 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and FIELD SPARROW. Two PINE SISKINS this week at a feeder in Medina. Again April 8, arrival of PINE WARBLER at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk and Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson. Also at Point Gratiot, 35 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW, and at Greenwood Cemetery, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, FOX SPARROW and 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS. SANDHILL CRANE, April 9, in Cattaraugus County, about five miles south of the Village of South Dayton. April 6, COMMON TERNS arrived a day early off the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo, and with 3000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Rich Marine in Riverside. CASPIAN TERN first noted April 7 at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, with a continuing and changing plumage LONG-B. DOWITCHER. Also in the Iroquois Refuge - COMMON GALLINULE at Cayuga Pool with 15 waterfowl species including 29 RUDDY DUCKS, plus AMERICAN BITTERN and VIRGINIA RAIL. Numbers of WOOD DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL and BUFFLEHEAD in the marshes on the south side of Route 77. And at Swallow Hollow Trail, about 400 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Six gull species at Dunkirk Harbor on the 8th included L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, plus COMMON LOON and 100 each of AMERICAN COOT and D.-CREST. CORMORANT. COMMON LOON also this week on Delaware Park Lake in Buffalo and the Niagara River off the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. April 11, two female HARLEQUIN DUCKS still above Niagara Falls, viewed from the Three Sisters Islands on Goat Island. At the falls heronry, 141 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 13 GREAT EGRETS on nest. PEREGRINE FALCON on the Canadian gorge wall, viewed from Terrapin Point. And, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW at Goat Island. And in late March, GREAT HORNED OWL in yard on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 19. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 05 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/05/2012 * NYBU1204.05 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Update ? BOS Meeting, Wednesday, April 11, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Marcie Jacklin will discuss the results of the BOS October Count and David Gordon will discuss the results of the BOS Christmas Count. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER LONG-B. DOWITCHER HARLEQUIN DUCK BLACK VULTURE Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Wild Turkey American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Barn Swallow Eastern Bluebird Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/05/2012 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, April 5, 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 March 29 through April 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, LONG-B. DOWITCHER, HARLEQUIN DUCK and BLACK VULTURE. In the Southern Tier, April 1, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN on Chautauqua Lake at Whitney Bay, between Magnolia Road and Whitney Bay Road. About 100 miles from Chautauqua Lake, the AMER. WHITE PELICAN found in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area on March 28 has not been relocated. A YELLOW-THR. WARBLER continues in Buffalo at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Most recent report March 31, along the ridge at the bend by the dump. Also, 5 WILD TURKEYS in the cemetery. LONG-B. DOWITCHER also continues in the Iroquois Refuge - April 1 at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road, with KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and up to 15 WILSON'S SNIPE. Also in the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - first report of BARN SWALLOW April 4. At Cayuga Pool, 25 RUDDY DUCKS, 10 PIED-BILLED GREBES and hundreds of AMERICAN COOT. Abundant AMERICAN WIGEON and RING-NECKED DUCKS in the areas. BALD EAGLES at the Cayuga Pool nest. OSPREY on at least four nests. And abundant RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at Swallow Hollow Trail and Ledge Road near Indian Falls. March 31 at Niagara Falls, two HARLEQUIN DUCKS still above the Horseshoe Falls. The HARLEQUIN DUCKS, observed from Goat Island, have favored a rock island with two small trees, several hundred yards up from the falls. At the heronry above the falls, 23 GREAT EGRETS and 52 BL.-CR. NIGHT- HERONS, plus 74 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Also, 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS at the falls. Three to four BLACK VULTURES still on the lower Niagara River at Lewiston on March 31. In the Ontario waters of the upper Niagara River, BALD EAGLES have nested on Navy Island. Two nestlings were visible in the nest on March 31, observed from the water intakes on the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. EASTERN BLUEBIRDS nesting in the boxes at Knox State Park in East Aurora. Other reports - 1200 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Beaver Island State Park. And AMERICAN WOODCOCKS calling and flying at dusk in the Southern Tier Town of Harmony, and at the BOS Sanctuary on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 12. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 05 Apr 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/05/2012 * NYBU1204.05 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Update ? BOS Meeting, Wednesday, April 11, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Marcie Jacklin will discuss the results of the BOS October Count and David Gordon will discuss the results of the BOS Christmas Count. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER LONG-B. DOWITCHER HARLEQUIN DUCK BLACK VULTURE Pied-billed Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Wild Turkey American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Barn Swallow Eastern Bluebird Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/05/2012 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, April 5, 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 March 29 through April 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, LONG-B. DOWITCHER, HARLEQUIN DUCK and BLACK VULTURE. In the Southern Tier, April 1, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN on Chautauqua Lake at Whitney Bay, between Magnolia Road and Whitney Bay Road. About 100 miles from Chautauqua Lake, the AMER. WHITE PELICAN found in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area on March 28 has not been relocated. A YELLOW-THR. WARBLER continues in Buffalo at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Most recent report March 31, along the ridge at the bend by the dump. Also, 5 WILD TURKEYS in the cemetery. LONG-B. DOWITCHER also continues in the Iroquois Refuge - April 1 at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road, with KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and up to 15 WILSON'S SNIPE. Also in the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - first report of BARN SWALLOW April 4. At Cayuga Pool, 25 RUDDY DUCKS, 10 PIED-BILLED GREBES and hundreds of AMERICAN COOT. Abundant AMERICAN WIGEON and RING-NECKED DUCKS in the areas. BALD EAGLES at the Cayuga Pool nest. OSPREY on at least four nests. And abundant RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at Swallow Hollow Trail and Ledge Road near Indian Falls. March 31 at Niagara Falls, two HARLEQUIN DUCKS still above the Horseshoe Falls. The HARLEQUIN DUCKS, observed from Goat Island, have favored a rock island with two small trees, several hundred yards up from the falls. At the heronry above the falls, 23 GREAT EGRETS and 52 BL.-CR. NIGHT- HERONS, plus 74 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Also, 3 L. BLACK-B. GULLS at the falls. Three to four BLACK VULTURES still on the lower Niagara River at Lewiston on March 31. In the Ontario waters of the upper Niagara River, BALD EAGLES have nested on Navy Island. Two nestlings were visible in the nest on March 31, observed from the water intakes on the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls. EASTERN BLUEBIRDS nesting in the boxes at Knox State Park in East Aurora. Other reports - 1200 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Beaver Island State Park. And AMERICAN WOODCOCKS calling and flying at dusk in the Southern Tier Town of Harmony, and at the BOS Sanctuary on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 12. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 29 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/29/2012 * NYBU1203.29 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [BOS Field Trip, Saturday, March 31, Willie D'Anna will lead an all day trip through the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market at Routes 78 and 104 in Wrights Corners, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch, and visitors are always welcome.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER LONG-B. DOWITCHER COMMON RAVEN Common Loon Great Blue Heron Great Egret Wood Duck American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Barred Owl Chimney Swift Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/29/2012 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, March 29, 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 March 22 through March 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, LONG-B. DOWITCHER and COMMON RAVEN. March 28, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, in the North Marsh Pool, along Knowlesville Road across from the Swallow Hollow Trail. The pelican was found late in the day, by walking south to the marsh from the pavillion and parking lot. As of March 29, the pelican had not been relocated. In Buffalo, March 25 and 27, a very rare and early YELLOW- THR. WARBLER at Forest Lawn Cemetery. First reported from the ridge at the bend overlooking the dump, and later between the ridge and Mirror Lake in Section 23. March 23 to 29, a challenging to identify, basic plumage LONG-B. DOWITCHER at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. Other shorebirds at the marsh included KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also in the Iroquois Refuge - March 29, a COMMON LOON at Cayuga Pool, and a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the Forestall Flats along Route 63 on the 25th. An unexpected COMMON RAVEN, March 23, on Main Street in the City of Tonawanda, a few miles from the River Road power plant where COMMON RAVEN has been previously reported. On the 28th, a record count for the month of March, 23 GREAT EGRETS on Strawberry Island in the upper Niagara River. Also, 29 GREAT BLUE HERONS at nearby Motor Island. FOX SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW and SWAMP SPARROW reported at several locations. CHIMNEY SWIFTS over I-290 in Tonawanda. EASTERN TOWHEE at Forest Lawn, and PURPLE FINCHES in Clarence and Lancaster. Flyover migrants this week - 18 BONAPARTE'S GULLS over Lancaster and an AMERICAN WIGEON over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. And, on the southern line of Chautauqua County at Pennsylvannia, abundant WOOD DUCKS and RING-NECKED DUCKS, calling BARRED OWLS and PILEATED WOODPECKERS and numerous RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 5. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 29 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/29/2012 * NYBU1203.29 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [BOS Field Trip, Saturday, March 31, Willie D'Anna will lead an all day trip through the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market at Routes 78 and 104 in Wrights Corners, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch, and visitors are always welcome.] AMER. WHITE PELICAN YELLOW-THR. WARBLER LONG-B. DOWITCHER COMMON RAVEN Common Loon Great Blue Heron Great Egret Wood Duck American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Barred Owl Chimney Swift Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/29/2012 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, March 29, 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 March 22 through March 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, LONG-B. DOWITCHER and COMMON RAVEN. March 28, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, in the North Marsh Pool, along Knowlesville Road across from the Swallow Hollow Trail. The pelican was found late in the day, by walking south to the marsh from the pavillion and parking lot. As of March 29, the pelican had not been relocated. In Buffalo, March 25 and 27, a very rare and early YELLOW- THR. WARBLER at Forest Lawn Cemetery. First reported from the ridge at the bend overlooking the dump, and later between the ridge and Mirror Lake in Section 23. March 23 to 29, a challenging to identify, basic plumage LONG-B. DOWITCHER at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. Other shorebirds at the marsh included KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also in the Iroquois Refuge - March 29, a COMMON LOON at Cayuga Pool, and a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the Forestall Flats along Route 63 on the 25th. An unexpected COMMON RAVEN, March 23, on Main Street in the City of Tonawanda, a few miles from the River Road power plant where COMMON RAVEN has been previously reported. On the 28th, a record count for the month of March, 23 GREAT EGRETS on Strawberry Island in the upper Niagara River. Also, 29 GREAT BLUE HERONS at nearby Motor Island. FOX SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW and SWAMP SPARROW reported at several locations. CHIMNEY SWIFTS over I-290 in Tonawanda. EASTERN TOWHEE at Forest Lawn, and PURPLE FINCHES in Clarence and Lancaster. Flyover migrants this week - 18 BONAPARTE'S GULLS over Lancaster and an AMERICAN WIGEON over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. And, on the southern line of Chautauqua County at Pennsylvannia, abundant WOOD DUCKS and RING-NECKED DUCKS, calling BARRED OWLS and PILEATED WOODPECKERS and numerous RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 5. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 22 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/22/2012 * NYBU1203.22 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- EURASIAN WIGEON LESSER YELLOWLEGS OSPREY GREAT EGRET PINE SISKIN NORTHERN SHRIKE Cackling Goose Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet American Pipit Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/22/2012 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, March 22, 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 March 15 through March 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, OSPREY, GREAT EGRET, PINE SISKIN and NORTHERN SHRIKE. Not surprising amid a record heat wave, many early migrants this week. Starting with EURASIAN WIGEONS at three locations in the Iroquois Refuge and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. First, March 15, EURASIAN WIGEON in the Iroquois Refuge at the south end of Mohawk Pool, accessed by hiking the Feeder Road. In the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, EURASIAN WIGEON March 18 at Goose Pond on Albion Road, and March 21, a third report of EURASIAN WIGEON opposite the Swallow Hollow Trail, on the north side of Oak Orchard Creek. Also in the Iroquois Refuge, beginning March 18, an very early LESSER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77, with up to 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 6 WILSON'S SNIPE. Early OSPREY too, first March 17 at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge and then March 21 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. GREAT EGRET also ahead of schedule - March 15 at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. Other widespread, and more typical arrivals, include AMERICAN WOODCOCK, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, EASTERN MEADOWLARK, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD. Also, 2 WILSON'S SNIPE arriving March 11 at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and 2 AMERICAN PIPITS March 17, in the Town of Attica. March 20 and 22, one, then two, PINE SISKINS at a feeder in Medina. NORTHERN SHRIKE still at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area March 18. And 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS and 3 NORTHERN HARRIERS, plus WILD TURKEY, continue on Posson Road in Shelby. Other reports from the Iroquois Refuge and areas - 7 CACKLING GEESE at Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and 5 CACKLING GEESE at Ring-neck Marsh. BALD EAGLES at two nests - Cayuga Pool and Mohawk Pool. And, 2 SANDHILL CRANES at Casey Road and Route 77. Also this week, at parking lot at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, an unusual SONG SPARROW with white head plumage. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 29. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 22 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/22/2012 * NYBU1203.22 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- EURASIAN WIGEON LESSER YELLOWLEGS OSPREY GREAT EGRET PINE SISKIN NORTHERN SHRIKE Cackling Goose Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet American Pipit Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/22/2012 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, March 22, 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 March 15 through March 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, OSPREY, GREAT EGRET, PINE SISKIN and NORTHERN SHRIKE. Not surprising amid a record heat wave, many early migrants this week. Starting with EURASIAN WIGEONS at three locations in the Iroquois Refuge and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. First, March 15, EURASIAN WIGEON in the Iroquois Refuge at the south end of Mohawk Pool, accessed by hiking the Feeder Road. In the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, EURASIAN WIGEON March 18 at Goose Pond on Albion Road, and March 21, a third report of EURASIAN WIGEON opposite the Swallow Hollow Trail, on the north side of Oak Orchard Creek. Also in the Iroquois Refuge, beginning March 18, an very early LESSER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77, with up to 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 6 WILSON'S SNIPE. Early OSPREY too, first March 17 at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge and then March 21 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. GREAT EGRET also ahead of schedule - March 15 at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. Other widespread, and more typical arrivals, include AMERICAN WOODCOCK, NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, EASTERN MEADOWLARK, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD. Also, 2 WILSON'S SNIPE arriving March 11 at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and 2 AMERICAN PIPITS March 17, in the Town of Attica. March 20 and 22, one, then two, PINE SISKINS at a feeder in Medina. NORTHERN SHRIKE still at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area March 18. And 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS and 3 NORTHERN HARRIERS, plus WILD TURKEY, continue on Posson Road in Shelby. Other reports from the Iroquois Refuge and areas - 7 CACKLING GEESE at Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and 5 CACKLING GEESE at Ring-neck Marsh. BALD EAGLES at two nests - Cayuga Pool and Mohawk Pool. And, 2 SANDHILL CRANES at Casey Road and Route 77. Also this week, at parking lot at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, an unusual SONG SPARROW with white head plumage. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 29. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 15 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/15/2012 * NYBU1203.15 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- EURASIAN WIGEON TUNDRA SWAN GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE SNOWY OWL SANDHILL CRANE RED-SHOULDERED HAWK TREE SWALLOW EASTERN MEADOWLARK Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Snow Goose Cackling Goose Blue-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Killdeer American Woodcock Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Barred Owl Short-eared Owl - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/15/2012 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, March 15, 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 March 8 through March 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include waterfowl, SNOWY OWL, SANDHILL CRANE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, TREE SWALLOW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. [Late report – EURASIAN WIGEON, March 15, Mohawk Pool, on Feeder Rd in the Iroquois Refuge] Abundant waterfowl, especially TUNDRA SWANS, widely reported this week. In southeast Erie County, 120 TUNDRA SWANS along Route 16 in the Town of Sardinia. In the Iroquois Refuge, over 500 TUNDRA SWANS at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh on Route 77. And, over 900 TUNDRA SWANS and 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE along East Shelby Road, north of Fletcher Chapel Road in Shelby. A single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE with a CACKLING GOOSE in the Town of Somerset on Lower Lake Road east of Johnson Creek Road. Ten CACKLING GEESE and 25 SNOW GEESE at the Gypsum Ponds in Oakfield. And first report of BLUE-WINGED TEAL from the Town of Bethany. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 14 waterfowl species including numbers of LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCKS, plus 4 HORNED GREBES and 2 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. And in Buffalo, abundant RED-BR. MERGANSERS off the Erie Basin Marina. Four SNOWY OWLS still at the Niagara Falls Airport on March 11. On Molasses Hill Road in Alexander, four SHORT-EARED OWLS continue near the golf course, plus an AMERICAN WOODCOCK. BARRED OWL also heard calling at this location, and another BARRED OWL calling in the afternoon near the Pennsylvania border at the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Countyline. Migrants passing above the City of Buffalo - adult BALD EAGLE over Delaware Park on March 9, and 2 SANDHILL CRANES, March 15, over Woodbridge Avenue. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, 20 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS on March 12. The watch is conducted daily at Lakeside Cemetery on Camp Road in Hamburg or the nearby Williams ball park on Rodgers Road. Visitors are always welcome at the hawkwatch. TREE SWALLOWS, EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and KILLDEER at multiple location this week. And Niagara River gulls included at least 6 LITTLE GULLS on the lower river at Lewiston and a L. BLACK-B. GULL on the upper river at Aqua Lane in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 22. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 15 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/15/2012 * NYBU1203.15 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- EURASIAN WIGEON TUNDRA SWAN GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE SNOWY OWL SANDHILL CRANE RED-SHOULDERED HAWK TREE SWALLOW EASTERN MEADOWLARK Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Snow Goose Cackling Goose Blue-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Killdeer American Woodcock Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Barred Owl Short-eared Owl - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/15/2012 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, March 15, 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 March 8 through March 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include waterfowl, SNOWY OWL, SANDHILL CRANE, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, TREE SWALLOW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. [Late report – EURASIAN WIGEON, March 15, Mohawk Pool, on Feeder Rd in the Iroquois Refuge] Abundant waterfowl, especially TUNDRA SWANS, widely reported this week. In southeast Erie County, 120 TUNDRA SWANS along Route 16 in the Town of Sardinia. In the Iroquois Refuge, over 500 TUNDRA SWANS at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh on Route 77. And, over 900 TUNDRA SWANS and 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE along East Shelby Road, north of Fletcher Chapel Road in Shelby. A single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE with a CACKLING GOOSE in the Town of Somerset on Lower Lake Road east of Johnson Creek Road. Ten CACKLING GEESE and 25 SNOW GEESE at the Gypsum Ponds in Oakfield. And first report of BLUE-WINGED TEAL from the Town of Bethany. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 14 waterfowl species including numbers of LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCKS, plus 4 HORNED GREBES and 2 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. And in Buffalo, abundant RED-BR. MERGANSERS off the Erie Basin Marina. Four SNOWY OWLS still at the Niagara Falls Airport on March 11. On Molasses Hill Road in Alexander, four SHORT-EARED OWLS continue near the golf course, plus an AMERICAN WOODCOCK. BARRED OWL also heard calling at this location, and another BARRED OWL calling in the afternoon near the Pennsylvania border at the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Countyline. Migrants passing above the City of Buffalo - adult BALD EAGLE over Delaware Park on March 9, and 2 SANDHILL CRANES, March 15, over Woodbridge Avenue. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch, 20 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS on March 12. The watch is conducted daily at Lakeside Cemetery on Camp Road in Hamburg or the nearby Williams ball park on Rodgers Road. Visitors are always welcome at the hawkwatch. TREE SWALLOWS, EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and KILLDEER at multiple location this week. And Niagara River gulls included at least 6 LITTLE GULLS on the lower river at Lewiston and a L. BLACK-B. GULL on the upper river at Aqua Lane in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 22. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/08/2012 * NYBU1203.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [BOS meeting, Wednesday, March 14, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. BOS member Dr. Robert DeLeon will present a summary of his recent publication in the Condor, describing the influence of climate change on avian migration timing - a study based on BOS data. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] SNOWY OWL BARROW'S GOLDENEYE AMERICAN WOODCOCK Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Redhead Lesser Scaup Northern Harrier Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Killdeer Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike Song Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/08/2012 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, March 08, 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 March 1 through March 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY OWLS, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and AMERICAN WOODCOCK. The BOS owl field trip on March 4 reported six SNOWY OWLS at the Niagara Falls Airport. The owls were seen at a distance from the Calspan parking lot - observers should ask permission to park during business hours. A BARRED OWL was also observed after dark at Bond Lake Park County Park in Lewiston. Other owl reports this week - a pair of SHORT-EARED OWLS plus five NORTHERN HARRIERS on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, and GREAT HORNED OWLS heard and on nest at other locations. A female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was reported again March 2 and 4 on the upper Niagara River at Central Avenue in Fort Erie, Ontario. Also 83 LESSER SCAUP among abundant waterfowl on the upper river. Arrivals this week - AMERICAN WOODCOCK were heard calling north of the Iroquois Refuge, and KILLDEER, SONG SPARROW, COMMON GRACKLE and RED-W. BLACKBIRDS at several locations. Waterfowl in the Iroquois Refuge areas included two flocks of over 200 TUNDRA SWANS and abundant NORTHERN PINTAILS. At Stafford Pond on Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, 6 CACKLING GEESE on March 7. Also in the Iroquois Refuge, a NORTHERN SHRIKE on Feeder Road at Kumpf Marsh. Other reports this week - in Buffalo, PEREGRINE FALCON continues on the UB Main Street Campus at the Winspear Avenue chimney, and six WILD TURKEYS at Forest Lawn Cemetery. And from the Southern Tier, two REDHEADS in a yard pond in Olean. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 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 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/08/2012 * NYBU1203.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [BOS meeting, Wednesday, March 14, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. BOS member Dr. Robert DeLeon will present a summary of his recent publication in the Condor, describing the influence of climate change on avian migration timing - a study based on BOS data. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] SNOWY OWL BARROW'S GOLDENEYE AMERICAN WOODCOCK Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Redhead Lesser Scaup Northern Harrier Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Killdeer Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike Song Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/08/2012 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, March 08, 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 March 1 through March 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY OWLS, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and AMERICAN WOODCOCK. The BOS owl field trip on March 4 reported six SNOWY OWLS at the Niagara Falls Airport. The owls were seen at a distance from the Calspan parking lot - observers should ask permission to park during business hours. A BARRED OWL was also observed after dark at Bond Lake Park County Park in Lewiston. Other owl reports this week - a pair of SHORT-EARED OWLS plus five NORTHERN HARRIERS on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, and GREAT HORNED OWLS heard and on nest at other locations. A female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was reported again March 2 and 4 on the upper Niagara River at Central Avenue in Fort Erie, Ontario. Also 83 LESSER SCAUP among abundant waterfowl on the upper river. Arrivals this week - AMERICAN WOODCOCK were heard calling north of the Iroquois Refuge, and KILLDEER, SONG SPARROW, COMMON GRACKLE and RED-W. BLACKBIRDS at several locations. Waterfowl in the Iroquois Refuge areas included two flocks of over 200 TUNDRA SWANS and abundant NORTHERN PINTAILS. At Stafford Pond on Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, 6 CACKLING GEESE on March 7. Also in the Iroquois Refuge, a NORTHERN SHRIKE on Feeder Road at Kumpf Marsh. Other reports this week - in Buffalo, PEREGRINE FALCON continues on the UB Main Street Campus at the Winspear Avenue chimney, and six WILD TURKEYS at Forest Lawn Cemetery. And from the Southern Tier, two REDHEADS in a yard pond in Olean. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 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 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/01/2012 * NYBU1203.01 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BARROW'S GOLDENEYE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE KING EIDER SNOWY OWL BRANT COMMON RAVEN Snow Goose Northern Pintail Lesser Scaup Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike Northern Cardinal Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/01/2012 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, March 1, 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. Just the highlights of the many reports received during the past two weeks, February 16 to March 1, include BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, KING EIDER, SNOWY OWL, BRANT and COMMON RAVEN. A rare find on the upper Niagara River, February 25, a female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at the Niagara Parkway and Central Avenue in Fort Erie, Ontario. The distinct field mark of an all orange bill was noted. Many species of arriving waterfowl in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas were highlighted by 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, March 1, on Hemlock Ridge Road west of Shelby-Barre Townline, among several thousand CANADA GEESE, 29 NORTHERN PINTAILS and a SNOW GOOSE. SNOW GOOSE reports were highlighted by a flock of 2000 over Golden Hill State Park at Lake Ontario in Somerset. Also flocks of 175 and 150 SNOW GEESE in the Town of Barre and the Iroquois Refuge. February 26, a male KING EIDER was still on the Welland Canal at Port Weller in Saint Catharines, Ontario. SNOWY OWL at the canal on February 19. In Buffalo, an unexpected BRANT, February 28, off the Erie Basin Marina. More unexpected, a COMMON RAVEN, February 18, at the power plant on River Road in Tonawanda. At the nearby Mid River Marina, 5 LESSER SCAUP and a BALD EAGLE. SHORT-EARED OWLS and NORTHERN HARRIERS continue to winter on Molasses Hill Road in Alexander and Posson Road in Shelby. Only recent reports of ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS - at two locations in Shelby. NORTHERN SHRIKES in Bethany, Middlebury and on Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. And, 5 BALD EAGLES in refuge areas. Also during the past two weeks, small numbers of RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES, and flocks of up to 150 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at several locations. At feeders - EASTERN TOWHEE in Bethany, FIELD SPARROW in Alexander and 12 NORTHERN CARDINALS in Hamburg. And a pair of active PEREGRINE FALCONS by the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Campus in Buffalo.The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 8. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Mar 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/01/2012 * NYBU1203.01 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BARROW'S GOLDENEYE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE KING EIDER SNOWY OWL BRANT COMMON RAVEN Snow Goose Northern Pintail Lesser Scaup Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike Northern Cardinal Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/01/2012 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, March 1, 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. Just the highlights of the many reports received during the past two weeks, February 16 to March 1, include BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, KING EIDER, SNOWY OWL, BRANT and COMMON RAVEN. A rare find on the upper Niagara River, February 25, a female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at the Niagara Parkway and Central Avenue in Fort Erie, Ontario. The distinct field mark of an all orange bill was noted. Many species of arriving waterfowl in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas were highlighted by 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, March 1, on Hemlock Ridge Road west of Shelby-Barre Townline, among several thousand CANADA GEESE, 29 NORTHERN PINTAILS and a SNOW GOOSE. SNOW GOOSE reports were highlighted by a flock of 2000 over Golden Hill State Park at Lake Ontario in Somerset. Also flocks of 175 and 150 SNOW GEESE in the Town of Barre and the Iroquois Refuge. February 26, a male KING EIDER was still on the Welland Canal at Port Weller in Saint Catharines, Ontario. SNOWY OWL at the canal on February 19. In Buffalo, an unexpected BRANT, February 28, off the Erie Basin Marina. More unexpected, a COMMON RAVEN, February 18, at the power plant on River Road in Tonawanda. At the nearby Mid River Marina, 5 LESSER SCAUP and a BALD EAGLE. SHORT-EARED OWLS and NORTHERN HARRIERS continue to winter on Molasses Hill Road in Alexander and Posson Road in Shelby. Only recent reports of ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS - at two locations in Shelby. NORTHERN SHRIKES in Bethany, Middlebury and on Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. And, 5 BALD EAGLES in refuge areas. Also during the past two weeks, small numbers of RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES, and flocks of up to 150 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS at several locations. At feeders - EASTERN TOWHEE in Bethany, FIELD SPARROW in Alexander and 12 NORTHERN CARDINALS in Hamburg. And a pair of active PEREGRINE FALCONS by the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Campus in Buffalo.The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 8. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 16 Feb 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/16/2012 * NYBU1202.16 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CALIFORNIA GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK KING EIDER SNOWY OWL EASTERN TOWHEE RED-W. BLACKBIRD Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Merlin Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Short-eared Owl Hairy Woodpecker Horned Lark Brown Creeper Northern Shrike Eastern Bluebird Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/16/2012 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, February 16, 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 February 9 through February 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CALIFORNIA GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, KING EIDER, SNOWY OWL, EASTERN TOWHEE and RED-W. BLACKBIRD. February 13, an adult CALIFORNIA GULL on the lower Niagara River, on the rocks directly below Devil's Hole State Park in Lewiston. Further downriver at the power plants, reports of 25 to 40 ICELAND GULLS on the 12th and 13th. At Niagara Falls, off Goat Island, two female HARLEQUIN DUCKS on a small island above the Canadian Falls, and 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. February 10, a male KING EIDER still on the Welland Canal at Port Weller, Ontario. Also the 10th, SNOWY OWL continues in a farm yard on Marshall Road in the Orleans County Town of Yates. February 9, three each of SHORT-EARED OWL and NORTHERN HARRIER on Molasses Hill Road on the Alexander-Bethany Townline in Genesee County. February 11, a rare in winter EASTERN TOWHEE with AMER. TREE SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS on Francis Road in Bethany. Five RED-W. BLACKBIRDS, actual spring migrants, arrived February 15 at Fletcher and Two Mile Creek Roads in Tonawanda. February 8, 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on Pleasantview Drive in Lancaster. Other recent reports - on the upper Niagara River, 32 GREAT BLUE HERONS on Strawberry Island and a LITTLE GULL plus over 200 TUNDRA SWANS at Motor Island. Falcons in Buffalo - MERLIN on Shirley Avenue and two PEREGRINE FALCON near the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Main Street Campus. TURKEY VULTURE, NORTHERN SHRIKE and HORNED LARKS in Bethany, and another NORTHERN SHRIKE and a flock of 48 DARK-EYED JUNCOS at Carlton Hill Multiple Use Area in Wyoming County. HAIRY WOODPECKER, uncommon in the city, on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. And BROWN CREEPERS in the Chautauqua County Town of Clymer and at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, with AMER. TREE SPARROWS and WHITE- THR. SPARROW. The Bird Report will not be updated until Thursday evening, March 1. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 16 Feb 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/16/2012 * NYBU1202.16 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CALIFORNIA GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK KING EIDER SNOWY OWL EASTERN TOWHEE RED-W. BLACKBIRD Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Merlin Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Short-eared Owl Hairy Woodpecker Horned Lark Brown Creeper Northern Shrike Eastern Bluebird Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/16/2012 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, February 16, 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 February 9 through February 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CALIFORNIA GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCK, KING EIDER, SNOWY OWL, EASTERN TOWHEE and RED-W. BLACKBIRD. February 13, an adult CALIFORNIA GULL on the lower Niagara River, on the rocks directly below Devil's Hole State Park in Lewiston. Further downriver at the power plants, reports of 25 to 40 ICELAND GULLS on the 12th and 13th. At Niagara Falls, off Goat Island, two female HARLEQUIN DUCKS on a small island above the Canadian Falls, and 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. February 10, a male KING EIDER still on the Welland Canal at Port Weller, Ontario. Also the 10th, SNOWY OWL continues in a farm yard on Marshall Road in the Orleans County Town of Yates. February 9, three each of SHORT-EARED OWL and NORTHERN HARRIER on Molasses Hill Road on the Alexander-Bethany Townline in Genesee County. February 11, a rare in winter EASTERN TOWHEE with AMER. TREE SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS on Francis Road in Bethany. Five RED-W. BLACKBIRDS, actual spring migrants, arrived February 15 at Fletcher and Two Mile Creek Roads in Tonawanda. February 8, 8 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on Pleasantview Drive in Lancaster. Other recent reports - on the upper Niagara River, 32 GREAT BLUE HERONS on Strawberry Island and a LITTLE GULL plus over 200 TUNDRA SWANS at Motor Island. Falcons in Buffalo - MERLIN on Shirley Avenue and two PEREGRINE FALCON near the nest box on the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Main Street Campus. TURKEY VULTURE, NORTHERN SHRIKE and HORNED LARKS in Bethany, and another NORTHERN SHRIKE and a flock of 48 DARK-EYED JUNCOS at Carlton Hill Multiple Use Area in Wyoming County. HAIRY WOODPECKER, uncommon in the city, on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. And BROWN CREEPERS in the Chautauqua County Town of Clymer and at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, with AMER. TREE SPARROWS and WHITE- THR. SPARROW. The Bird Report will not be updated until Thursday evening, March 1. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 09 Feb 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/09/2012 * NYBU1202.09 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SNOW GOOSE BARROW'S GOLDENEYE SNOWY OWL FISH CROW Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Trumpeter Swan Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Herring Gull Great Horned Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl American Robin Northern Shrike Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/09/2012 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, February 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 February 2 through February 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOW GEESE, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, SNOWY OWL and FISH CROW. In the Lake Ontario Plains, February 5, an occurrence of SNOW GEESE in numbers never recorded in the BOS region. Multiple observers counted 5000 to over 10,000 SNOW GEESE on Lake Ontario and in the fields of the Towns of Somerset and Yates. Previous maximum count for the region was 1400 SNOW GEESE. Among the SNOW GEESE, a single CACKLING GOOSE and small numbers of blue-phase SNOW GEESE. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains, one or two SHORT-EARED OWLS on Lower Lake Road east of Marshall Road in Yates, several NORTHERN SHRIKES and flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS. In Krull Park in Olcott, GREAT HORNED OWL, LONG-EARED OWL and COMMON REDPOLLS. On Lake Ontario, RED-THROATED LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, LONG-TAILED DUCK, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER. At the eastern line of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek at Point Breeze. A SNOWY OWL continues in the Lake Ontario Plains on Marshall Road in Yates. Another SNOWY OWL east of the region on the Lake Ontario Parkway at Kendall Road. One or two SNOWY OWLS still on the Buffalo waterfront - reported on the Short Breakwall seen from Fort Erie, Ontario, and on the Outer Harbor Breakwall at the Bell Slip on Fuhrmann Blvd. February 2, five or more FISH CROWS studied again at Bowen and Jesse Roads in Fort Erie, Ontario. Other recent reports - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least nine waterfowl species included AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, LESSER SCAUP and HOODED MERGANSER, plus 250 HERRING GULLS. On the Black Rock Canal at LaSalle Park in Buffalo, 6 RING-NECKED DUCKS. In the Iroquois Refuge at Kumpf Marsh, two TRUMPETER SWANS. ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK on Shelby-Barre Townline Road. For the third year, a NORTHERN SHRIKE at the Grand Island airstrip on Alt Blvd. And, three BALD EAGLES at the Cattaraugus County gravel pits in the Town of Dayton. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 09 Feb 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/09/2012 * NYBU1202.09 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SNOW GOOSE BARROW'S GOLDENEYE SNOWY OWL FISH CROW Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Trumpeter Swan Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Herring Gull Great Horned Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl American Robin Northern Shrike Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/09/2012 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, February 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 February 2 through February 9 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOW GEESE, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, SNOWY OWL and FISH CROW. In the Lake Ontario Plains, February 5, an occurrence of SNOW GEESE in numbers never recorded in the BOS region. Multiple observers counted 5000 to over 10,000 SNOW GEESE on Lake Ontario and in the fields of the Towns of Somerset and Yates. Previous maximum count for the region was 1400 SNOW GEESE. Among the SNOW GEESE, a single CACKLING GOOSE and small numbers of blue-phase SNOW GEESE. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains, one or two SHORT-EARED OWLS on Lower Lake Road east of Marshall Road in Yates, several NORTHERN SHRIKES and flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS. In Krull Park in Olcott, GREAT HORNED OWL, LONG-EARED OWL and COMMON REDPOLLS. On Lake Ontario, RED-THROATED LOON, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, LONG-TAILED DUCK, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER. At the eastern line of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek at Point Breeze. A SNOWY OWL continues in the Lake Ontario Plains on Marshall Road in Yates. Another SNOWY OWL east of the region on the Lake Ontario Parkway at Kendall Road. One or two SNOWY OWLS still on the Buffalo waterfront - reported on the Short Breakwall seen from Fort Erie, Ontario, and on the Outer Harbor Breakwall at the Bell Slip on Fuhrmann Blvd. February 2, five or more FISH CROWS studied again at Bowen and Jesse Roads in Fort Erie, Ontario. Other recent reports - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least nine waterfowl species included AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, LESSER SCAUP and HOODED MERGANSER, plus 250 HERRING GULLS. On the Black Rock Canal at LaSalle Park in Buffalo, 6 RING-NECKED DUCKS. In the Iroquois Refuge at Kumpf Marsh, two TRUMPETER SWANS. ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK on Shelby-Barre Townline Road. For the third year, a NORTHERN SHRIKE at the Grand Island airstrip on Alt Blvd. And, three BALD EAGLES at the Cattaraugus County gravel pits in the Town of Dayton. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 02 Feb 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/02/2012 * NYBU1202.02 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- FISH CROW BOHEMIAN WAXWING ORANGE-CR. WARBLER SNOWY OWL Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Little Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake American Crow Cedar Waxwing Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/02/2012 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, February 2, 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 January 26 through February 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER and SNOWY OWL. Multiple FISH CROWS, a new species for the BOS region, were reported again on January 29 in Fort Erie, Ontario. The FISH CROWS have been heard and seen among AMERICAN CROWS near the International Railroad Bridge at the Niagara River, and along the length of Bowen Road, including the golf course at the west end of the road. Also on Bowen Road, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 2 COMMON REDPOLLS and 15 PINE SISKINS. In the Lake Ontario Plains, January 29, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING with 300 CEDAR WAXWINGS, in the Town of Newfane, on Route 18 near Kingfisher Court, east of Olcott. The waxwings are attracted the the orchards and berry trees at this location. An ORANGE-CR. WARBLER continues on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. Most recent report - January 28 at the Three Sisters Islands parking lot. The handful of SNOWY OWLS reported in the region this season are just a portion of a widespread irruption of SNOWY OWLS across the northern United States. January 30, after dropping down a 50 foot tall chimney, a SNOWY OWL was rescued from an abandoned furnace at an industrial site on Seneca Street in Buffalo. The slightly injured owl is in rehabilitation. BONAPARTE'S GULLS are still abundant on the upper Niagara River. This week, over 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS were packed along the the river from Strawberry Island to the Black Rock Canal at Austin Street in Buffalo. BLACK-HEADED GULL, BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE and 5 LITTLE GULLS were reported among the flocks. Also on the upper river - on and around Strawberry Island, thousands of COMMON MERGANSERS, 27 TUNDRA SWANS, numbers of GREAT BLUE HERONS, 2 BALD EAGLE, and at the Sheridan Drive boat launch, one ICELAND GULL. And on the Little River in North Tonawanda, 66 HOODED MERGANSERS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 9. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 02 Feb 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/02/2012 * NYBU1202.02 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- FISH CROW BOHEMIAN WAXWING ORANGE-CR. WARBLER SNOWY OWL Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Little Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake American Crow Cedar Waxwing Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/02/2012 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, February 2, 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 January 26 through February 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER and SNOWY OWL. Multiple FISH CROWS, a new species for the BOS region, were reported again on January 29 in Fort Erie, Ontario. The FISH CROWS have been heard and seen among AMERICAN CROWS near the International Railroad Bridge at the Niagara River, and along the length of Bowen Road, including the golf course at the west end of the road. Also on Bowen Road, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 2 COMMON REDPOLLS and 15 PINE SISKINS. In the Lake Ontario Plains, January 29, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING with 300 CEDAR WAXWINGS, in the Town of Newfane, on Route 18 near Kingfisher Court, east of Olcott. The waxwings are attracted the the orchards and berry trees at this location. An ORANGE-CR. WARBLER continues on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. Most recent report - January 28 at the Three Sisters Islands parking lot. The handful of SNOWY OWLS reported in the region this season are just a portion of a widespread irruption of SNOWY OWLS across the northern United States. January 30, after dropping down a 50 foot tall chimney, a SNOWY OWL was rescued from an abandoned furnace at an industrial site on Seneca Street in Buffalo. The slightly injured owl is in rehabilitation. BONAPARTE'S GULLS are still abundant on the upper Niagara River. This week, over 10,000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS were packed along the the river from Strawberry Island to the Black Rock Canal at Austin Street in Buffalo. BLACK-HEADED GULL, BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE and 5 LITTLE GULLS were reported among the flocks. Also on the upper river - on and around Strawberry Island, thousands of COMMON MERGANSERS, 27 TUNDRA SWANS, numbers of GREAT BLUE HERONS, 2 BALD EAGLE, and at the Sheridan Drive boat launch, one ICELAND GULL. And on the Little River in North Tonawanda, 66 HOODED MERGANSERS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 9. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 26 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/26/2012 * NYBU1201.26 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- FISH CROW LARK SPARROW ORANGE-CR. WARBLER BLACK-HEADED GULL BLACK VULTURE Common Loon Trumpeter Swan Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl American Crow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/26/2012 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, January 26, 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 January 19 through January 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, LARK SPARROW, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED GULL and BLACK VULTURE. January 22, what is likely the first record for the BOS region, a FISH CROW was refound in Olean, on the community college campus and at the Center Mall. Just days later, January 25, by the Niagara River in Fort Erie, Ontario, an astonishing five FISH CROWS were heard and seen coming to roost among hundreds of AMERICAN CROWS at Bowen Road and the Niagara River Parkway. In the Lake Ontario Plains, January 21, a one day report of a LARK SPARROW, on the Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road at Yates Center Road, south of Golden Hill State Park. Subsequent searches have reported SAVANNAH SPARROW and SONG SPARROW. An ORANGE-CR. WARBLER has been wintering on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. Most recent report January 22. The warbler has covered the south end of the island from the Three Sisters Islands, the big parking lot, and the maintenance buildings. Also at Goat Island, at least 10 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. BLACK-HEADED GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, ICELAND GULL and up to four LITTLE GULLS still at the Black Rock Canal off Rich Marina in Buffalo. A SNOWY OWL was on the canal pier on January 20. At least six BLACK VULTURES, which have often been sighted over the lower Niagara River gorge, have been roosting with TURKEY VULTURES in a neighborhood in the Village of Lewiston. SHORT-EARED OWLS continue to provide views at sunset on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, and Molasses Hill Road in Alexander. SNOWY OWL continues on the Buffalo waterfront off LaSalle Park, on the breakwalls and Bird Island Pier. Another SNOWY OWL for several weeks on Marshall Road near Lakeshore Road in the Town of Yates. Other reports this week - on the lower Niagara River at Youngstown, two reported TRUMPETER SWANS and a COMMON LOON at the docks at Joe Davis State Park. Well away from the Great Lakes and Niagara River, at a landfill on Route 16 in southeast Erie County, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS and 6 GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS. And in Buffalo, a BALD EAGLE on the mid-river water intake at the Peace Bridge. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 2. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 26 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/26/2012 * NYBU1201.26 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- FISH CROW LARK SPARROW ORANGE-CR. WARBLER BLACK-HEADED GULL BLACK VULTURE Common Loon Trumpeter Swan Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl American Crow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/26/2012 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, January 26, 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 January 19 through January 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, LARK SPARROW, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED GULL and BLACK VULTURE. January 22, what is likely the first record for the BOS region, a FISH CROW was refound in Olean, on the community college campus and at the Center Mall. Just days later, January 25, by the Niagara River in Fort Erie, Ontario, an astonishing five FISH CROWS were heard and seen coming to roost among hundreds of AMERICAN CROWS at Bowen Road and the Niagara River Parkway. In the Lake Ontario Plains, January 21, a one day report of a LARK SPARROW, on the Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road at Yates Center Road, south of Golden Hill State Park. Subsequent searches have reported SAVANNAH SPARROW and SONG SPARROW. An ORANGE-CR. WARBLER has been wintering on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. Most recent report January 22. The warbler has covered the south end of the island from the Three Sisters Islands, the big parking lot, and the maintenance buildings. Also at Goat Island, at least 10 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. BLACK-HEADED GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE, ICELAND GULL and up to four LITTLE GULLS still at the Black Rock Canal off Rich Marina in Buffalo. A SNOWY OWL was on the canal pier on January 20. At least six BLACK VULTURES, which have often been sighted over the lower Niagara River gorge, have been roosting with TURKEY VULTURES in a neighborhood in the Village of Lewiston. SHORT-EARED OWLS continue to provide views at sunset on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, and Molasses Hill Road in Alexander. SNOWY OWL continues on the Buffalo waterfront off LaSalle Park, on the breakwalls and Bird Island Pier. Another SNOWY OWL for several weeks on Marshall Road near Lakeshore Road in the Town of Yates. Other reports this week - on the lower Niagara River at Youngstown, two reported TRUMPETER SWANS and a COMMON LOON at the docks at Joe Davis State Park. Well away from the Great Lakes and Niagara River, at a landfill on Route 16 in southeast Erie County, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS and 6 GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS. And in Buffalo, a BALD EAGLE on the mid-river water intake at the Peace Bridge. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 2. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 19 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/19/2012 * NYBU1201.19 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-HEADED GULL GOLDEN EAGLE BARROW'S GOLDENEYE KING EIDER SNOWY OWL Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Canvasback Greater Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Red-br. Merganser Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Yellow-b. Sapsucker Amer. Tree Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Oregon Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/19/2012 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, January 19, 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 January 12 through January 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, GOLDEN EAGLE, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER and SNOWY OWL. On the upper Niagara River, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL is still being found sporadically on the Black Rock Canal at Rich Marina on Austin Street. Most recent report January 14, from a Buffalo Audubon Society Niagara River field trip. Also on the trip, L. BLACK-B. GULL and ICELAND GULL at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, 3 LITTLE GULLS on the lower river at Lewiston, and a PEREGRINE FALCON at Rich Marina. January 15, a GOLDEN EAGLE was photographed over the Wolf Run trail at Allegany State Park. At the east boundary of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE has apparently returned to Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario at Oak Orchard Creek. RED-NECKED GREBE, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and SURF SCOTER also at Point Breeze. In Ontario, a striking, male KING EIDER continues on the Welland Canal at Port Weller in Saint Catharines. SNOWY OWL also on the canal piers and at the adjacent yacht club, on Jones Beach. One or two SNOWY OWLS on the Buffalo waterfront on January 15. One owl seen on the Fort Erie side of the mid-river water intake, and another owl sighting along the hiking trail between the Bell and Seaway Slips on Furhmann Blvd. SNOWY OWLS also at two locations in the Lake Ontario Plains this week. January 14, three SHORT-EARED OWLS on Wruck Road, south of Route 104 in Niagara County, and two SHORT-EARED OWLS on Posson Road, north of the Iroquois Refuge in the Town of Shelby. From the Town of Darien, a wintering YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER. At a feeder on Wruck Road in Royalton, SAVANNAH SPARROW and two WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. A male OREGON JUNCO and four COMMON REDPOLLS in Yates, on the side of Lakeshore Road, east of Marshall Road. Another COMMON REDPOLL flying from Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. And a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL over Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter. In the winter fields, 700 SNOW BUNTINGS on Mix Road in the Town of Albion. On Edgerton Road in the Elba, 65 SNOW BUNTINGS, 55 HORNED LARKS and 2 LAPLAND LONGSPUR, with 160 each of DARK-EYED JUNCO and AMER. TREE SPARROW, two SONG SPARROWS, 5 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a BELTED KINGFISHER. And the annual waterfowl build up on the Niagara River at the south end of Grand Island includes abundant TUNDRA SWANS, CANVASBACKS, GREATER SCAUP, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED- BR. MERGANSERS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 26. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 19 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/19/2012 * NYBU1201.19 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-HEADED GULL GOLDEN EAGLE BARROW'S GOLDENEYE KING EIDER SNOWY OWL Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Canvasback Greater Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Red-br. Merganser Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Yellow-b. Sapsucker Amer. Tree Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Oregon Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/19/2012 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, January 19, 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 January 12 through January 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, GOLDEN EAGLE, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER and SNOWY OWL. On the upper Niagara River, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL is still being found sporadically on the Black Rock Canal at Rich Marina on Austin Street. Most recent report January 14, from a Buffalo Audubon Society Niagara River field trip. Also on the trip, L. BLACK-B. GULL and ICELAND GULL at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, 3 LITTLE GULLS on the lower river at Lewiston, and a PEREGRINE FALCON at Rich Marina. January 15, a GOLDEN EAGLE was photographed over the Wolf Run trail at Allegany State Park. At the east boundary of the BOS region, a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE has apparently returned to Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario at Oak Orchard Creek. RED-NECKED GREBE, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and SURF SCOTER also at Point Breeze. In Ontario, a striking, male KING EIDER continues on the Welland Canal at Port Weller in Saint Catharines. SNOWY OWL also on the canal piers and at the adjacent yacht club, on Jones Beach. One or two SNOWY OWLS on the Buffalo waterfront on January 15. One owl seen on the Fort Erie side of the mid-river water intake, and another owl sighting along the hiking trail between the Bell and Seaway Slips on Furhmann Blvd. SNOWY OWLS also at two locations in the Lake Ontario Plains this week. January 14, three SHORT-EARED OWLS on Wruck Road, south of Route 104 in Niagara County, and two SHORT-EARED OWLS on Posson Road, north of the Iroquois Refuge in the Town of Shelby. From the Town of Darien, a wintering YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER. At a feeder on Wruck Road in Royalton, SAVANNAH SPARROW and two WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. A male OREGON JUNCO and four COMMON REDPOLLS in Yates, on the side of Lakeshore Road, east of Marshall Road. Another COMMON REDPOLL flying from Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. And a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL over Four Mile Creek State Park in Porter. In the winter fields, 700 SNOW BUNTINGS on Mix Road in the Town of Albion. On Edgerton Road in the Elba, 65 SNOW BUNTINGS, 55 HORNED LARKS and 2 LAPLAND LONGSPUR, with 160 each of DARK-EYED JUNCO and AMER. TREE SPARROW, two SONG SPARROWS, 5 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and a BELTED KINGFISHER. And the annual waterfowl build up on the Niagara River at the south end of Grand Island includes abundant TUNDRA SWANS, CANVASBACKS, GREATER SCAUP, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED- BR. MERGANSERS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 26. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 12 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/12/2012 * NYBU1201.12 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- FISH CROW BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE KING EIDER SNOWY OWL Horned Grebe Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Ross's Goose Harlequin Duck Hooded Merganser Black Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Shrike Yellow-r. Warbler Common Yellowthroat Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/12/2012 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, January 12, 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 January 5 through January 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE, KING EIDER and SNOWY OWL. From Cattaraugus County, January 10, what may be the first record for the BOS region, a FISH CROW in the City of Olean, near the joining of Olean Creek and the Allegany River. On the upper Niagara River, a first winter BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE continues at the entrance of the Black Rock Canal in Buffalo. Reported several days this week from both Rich's Marina on Austin Street, and at the north end of the breakwall hike from Squaw Island Park. A first winter LITTLE GULL also at Black Rock, along with several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS. The BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE was one of ten gull species found on a New York State Ornithological Association Niagara River field trip on January 8. Other highlights from the lower river power plants and at Niagara Falls - LITTLE GULL, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Also one to three female HARLEQUIN DUCKS above the falls, upriver from the stranded barge, and two BLACK VULTURES over the lower river gorge at Lewiston. In Ontario, a male KING EIDER continues at the Port Weller East pier in Saint Catharines, along with a SNOWY OWL on the west pier. Most recent report - January 11. A SNOWY OWL still on the Buffalo waterfront's distant breakwalls. Reported on both Donnelly's Pier and the Short Breakwall; observed from either the Erie Basin Marina tower or LaSalle Park. The final report from the December 28 Oak Orchard Christmas Count included 72 count day species. The count area also includes the Iroquois and Tonawanda Areas, and was highlighted by at least 15 waterfowl species including GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, ROSS'S GOOSE, 2 TRUMPETER SWANS and 73 TUNDRA SWANS. Plus, HORNED GREBE, 3 BALD EAGLES, 15 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 6 AMERICAN KESTRELS, MERLIN, 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS, 8 NORTHERN SHRIKES, 9 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, 31 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, over 400 AMERICAN ROBINS, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, 29 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, 1 SNOW BUNTING, 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and a COMMON GRACKLE. Other reports this week - 16 HOODED MERGANSERS among the marina docks at Tonawanda Island in North Tonawanda. From Grand Island, at Buckhorn Island State Park, NORTHERN FLICKER, 3 BROWN CREEPERS and YELLOW-R. WARBLER, and, BELTED KINGFISHER on the West River Parkway. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 19. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 12 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/12/2012 * NYBU1201.12 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- FISH CROW BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE KING EIDER SNOWY OWL Horned Grebe Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Ross's Goose Harlequin Duck Hooded Merganser Black Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Shrike Yellow-r. Warbler Common Yellowthroat Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/12/2012 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, January 12, 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 January 5 through January 12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE, KING EIDER and SNOWY OWL. From Cattaraugus County, January 10, what may be the first record for the BOS region, a FISH CROW in the City of Olean, near the joining of Olean Creek and the Allegany River. On the upper Niagara River, a first winter BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE continues at the entrance of the Black Rock Canal in Buffalo. Reported several days this week from both Rich's Marina on Austin Street, and at the north end of the breakwall hike from Squaw Island Park. A first winter LITTLE GULL also at Black Rock, along with several thousand BONAPARTE'S GULLS. The BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE was one of ten gull species found on a New York State Ornithological Association Niagara River field trip on January 8. Other highlights from the lower river power plants and at Niagara Falls - LITTLE GULL, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Also one to three female HARLEQUIN DUCKS above the falls, upriver from the stranded barge, and two BLACK VULTURES over the lower river gorge at Lewiston. In Ontario, a male KING EIDER continues at the Port Weller East pier in Saint Catharines, along with a SNOWY OWL on the west pier. Most recent report - January 11. A SNOWY OWL still on the Buffalo waterfront's distant breakwalls. Reported on both Donnelly's Pier and the Short Breakwall; observed from either the Erie Basin Marina tower or LaSalle Park. The final report from the December 28 Oak Orchard Christmas Count included 72 count day species. The count area also includes the Iroquois and Tonawanda Areas, and was highlighted by at least 15 waterfowl species including GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, ROSS'S GOOSE, 2 TRUMPETER SWANS and 73 TUNDRA SWANS. Plus, HORNED GREBE, 3 BALD EAGLES, 15 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 6 AMERICAN KESTRELS, MERLIN, 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS, 8 NORTHERN SHRIKES, 9 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, 31 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, over 400 AMERICAN ROBINS, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, 29 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, 1 SNOW BUNTING, 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and a COMMON GRACKLE. Other reports this week - 16 HOODED MERGANSERS among the marina docks at Tonawanda Island in North Tonawanda. From Grand Island, at Buckhorn Island State Park, NORTHERN FLICKER, 3 BROWN CREEPERS and YELLOW-R. WARBLER, and, BELTED KINGFISHER on the West River Parkway. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 19. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 05 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/05/2012 * NYBU1201.05 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [BOS Meeting, Wednesday, Jan 11, 7 PM at the Museum of Science. Tim DePriest of the DEC will present a program on "Improving the Habitat along the Niagara River for Ospreys, Terns and other Wildlife." Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER BLACK-HEADED GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE KING EIDER Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Green-winged Teal Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Northern Harrier Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Great Horned Owl Short-eared Owl Pileated Woodpecker American Crow Common Raven Northern Mockingbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/05/2012 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, January 5, 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. Niagara Frontier highlights received during the past two weeks, December 22 through January 5, include BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and KING EIDER. December 29, a male BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER at a suet feeder in the Town of Amherst. Still present on the 31st, this appears to be the first winter record of BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER in the BOS archives. BLACK-HEADED GULL and BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE still among the BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the upper Niagara River. December 22 and 26, BLACK-HEADED GULL at Rich Marina on Austin Street in Buffalo's Riverside. A juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE has been seen from the Bird Island Pier and Squaw Island in Buffalo. LITTLE GULLS also reported on the upper and lower Niagara River. In Ontario, December 26, a breeding plumage, male KING EIDER off the east pier at Port Weller, on Lake Ontario at Saint Catharines. Rare in winter, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, January 1, on Lake Ontario at Barker Park in the Niagara County Town of Somerset. Also along the lakeshore, a high January count of 143 RED-NECKED GREBES, plus 37 RED-THROATED LOONS and 189 HORNED GREBES. December 22, two concentrations of wintering NORTHERN HARRIERS - ten NORTHERN HARRIERS with one SHORT-EARED OWL, north of the Iroquois Refuge on Posson Road in Shelby, and 5 NORTHERN HARRIERS with 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Molasses Hill Road in the Genesee County Town of Alexander. From Allegany State Park, December 29, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK on the Wolf Run trail, and at the Allegany Reservoir, 19 TUNDRA SWANS, 50 COMMON MERGANSERS and COMMON RAVEN. Other recent reports - in South Buffalo, at the Botanical Gardens and South Park Lake, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 12 HOODED MERGANSERS and a surprising 9 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS. PEREGRINE FALCON reported again in the Sheridan Park area of Tonawanda. In the Iroquois Refuge, 2 adult BALD EAGLES at Cayuga Pool and PILEATED WOODPECKER on the Onondaga Trail. From Grand Island, dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK over the south Island Bridge, and two GREAT HORNED OWLS calling in the night by the West River Parkway. And in the Orleans County Town of Ridgeway, two reports of an unusual blonde plumage AMERICAN CROW at Marshall and School #10 Roads. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 12. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 05 Jan 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 01/05/2012 * NYBU1201.05 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [BOS Meeting, Wednesday, Jan 11, 7 PM at the Museum of Science. Tim DePriest of the DEC will present a program on Improving the Habitat along the Niagara River for Ospreys, Terns and other Wildlife. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER BLACK-HEADED GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE KING EIDER Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Gr. White-fr. Goose Green-winged Teal Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Northern Harrier Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Little Gull Great Horned Owl Short-eared Owl Pileated Woodpecker American Crow Common Raven Northern Mockingbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/05/2012 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, January 5, 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. Niagara Frontier highlights received during the past two weeks, December 22 through January 5, include BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and KING EIDER. December 29, a male BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER at a suet feeder in the Town of Amherst. Still present on the 31st, this appears to be the first winter record of BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER in the BOS archives. BLACK-HEADED GULL and BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE still among the BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the upper Niagara River. December 22 and 26, BLACK-HEADED GULL at Rich Marina on Austin Street in Buffalo's Riverside. A juvenile BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE has been seen from the Bird Island Pier and Squaw Island in Buffalo. LITTLE GULLS also reported on the upper and lower Niagara River. In Ontario, December 26, a breeding plumage, male KING EIDER off the east pier at Port Weller, on Lake Ontario at Saint Catharines. Rare in winter, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, January 1, on Lake Ontario at Barker Park in the Niagara County Town of Somerset. Also along the lakeshore, a high January count of 143 RED-NECKED GREBES, plus 37 RED-THROATED LOONS and 189 HORNED GREBES. December 22, two concentrations of wintering NORTHERN HARRIERS - ten NORTHERN HARRIERS with one SHORT-EARED OWL, north of the Iroquois Refuge on Posson Road in Shelby, and 5 NORTHERN HARRIERS with 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Molasses Hill Road in the Genesee County Town of Alexander. From Allegany State Park, December 29, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK on the Wolf Run trail, and at the Allegany Reservoir, 19 TUNDRA SWANS, 50 COMMON MERGANSERS and COMMON RAVEN. Other recent reports - in South Buffalo, at the Botanical Gardens and South Park Lake, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 12 HOODED MERGANSERS and a surprising 9 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS. PEREGRINE FALCON reported again in the Sheridan Park area of Tonawanda. In the Iroquois Refuge, 2 adult BALD EAGLES at Cayuga Pool and PILEATED WOODPECKER on the Onondaga Trail. From Grand Island, dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK over the south Island Bridge, and two GREAT HORNED OWLS calling in the night by the West River Parkway. And in the Orleans County Town of Ridgeway, two reports of an unusual blonde plumage AMERICAN CROW at Marshall and School #10 Roads. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 12. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 22 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/22/2011 * NYBU1112.22 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BL. AND W. WARBLER BLACK-HEADED GULL SNOWY OWL Common Loon Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Harlequin Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Great Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Great Horned Owl Eastern Phoebe Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet American Robin Gray Catbird Song Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/22/2011 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, December 22, 2011 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. First of all, best holiday wishes and my thanks to the many contributors and callers to the the Buffalo Dial-a-Bird Report. Highlights of reports received December 15 through December 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BL. AND W. WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED GULL and SNOWY OWL. December 18, on one of the region's many Christmas Bird Counts, a BL. AND W. WARBLER at the mouth of Spicer Creek, off East River Road on Grand Island. This may be the first December record of BL. AND W. WARBLER in the BOS archives. Also on the 18th, EASTERN PHOEBE at the Baker Creek bridge in Fort Erie, Ontario. GRAY CATBIRD on Two Mile Creek Road, south of Fletcher Street in Tonawanda. And on the Three Sisters Islands off Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, 2 WINTER WRENS, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, SONG SPARROW and numbers of AMERICAN ROBINS. Another count find on the 18th - a BLACK-HEADED GULL on the upper Niagara River, among thousands of BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the entrance to the Black Rock Canal. This gull was seen from both the Austin Street marina, and the south end of Squaw Island Park. Also, a second hand report of a BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE on the canal. A count section including the Ontario side of Niagara Falls reported 60 species. Above the falls, 4 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, one male and three females, 2 THAYER'S GULLS, 4 ICELAND GULLS, 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, 150 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and 7420 HERRING GULLS. Also, a BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON at Dufferin Islands Park. The previously reported SLATY-BACKED GULL may still be above Niagara Falls. Thirty-five species in an upper Niagara River section between Fort Erie and Chippawa, Ontario, included 61 TUNDRA SWANS, 705 COMMON GOLDENEYES, 21 HOODED MERGANSERS, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and COMMON LOON. The morning of December 17, a SNOWY OWL on the roof of the Target store on Transit Road in Depew. Also this week - on Grand Island, two GREAT HORNED OWLS calling near the West River Parkway. And, 78 TUNDRA SWANS on Crane Road near the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 29. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 22 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/22/2011 * NYBU1112.22 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BL. AND W. WARBLER BLACK-HEADED GULL SNOWY OWL Common Loon Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Harlequin Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Great Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Great Horned Owl Eastern Phoebe Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet American Robin Gray Catbird Song Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/22/2011 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, December 22, 2011 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. First of all, best holiday wishes and my thanks to the many contributors and callers to the the Buffalo Dial-a-Bird Report. Highlights of reports received December 15 through December 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BL. AND W. WARBLER, BLACK-HEADED GULL and SNOWY OWL. December 18, on one of the region's many Christmas Bird Counts, a BL. AND W. WARBLER at the mouth of Spicer Creek, off East River Road on Grand Island. This may be the first December record of BL. AND W. WARBLER in the BOS archives. Also on the 18th, EASTERN PHOEBE at the Baker Creek bridge in Fort Erie, Ontario. GRAY CATBIRD on Two Mile Creek Road, south of Fletcher Street in Tonawanda. And on the Three Sisters Islands off Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York, 2 WINTER WRENS, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, SONG SPARROW and numbers of AMERICAN ROBINS. Another count find on the 18th - a BLACK-HEADED GULL on the upper Niagara River, among thousands of BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the entrance to the Black Rock Canal. This gull was seen from both the Austin Street marina, and the south end of Squaw Island Park. Also, a second hand report of a BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE on the canal. A count section including the Ontario side of Niagara Falls reported 60 species. Above the falls, 4 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, one male and three females, 2 THAYER'S GULLS, 4 ICELAND GULLS, 7 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, 150 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and 7420 HERRING GULLS. Also, a BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON at Dufferin Islands Park. The previously reported SLATY-BACKED GULL may still be above Niagara Falls. Thirty-five species in an upper Niagara River section between Fort Erie and Chippawa, Ontario, included 61 TUNDRA SWANS, 705 COMMON GOLDENEYES, 21 HOODED MERGANSERS, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and COMMON LOON. The morning of December 17, a SNOWY OWL on the roof of the Target store on Transit Road in Depew. Also this week - on Grand Island, two GREAT HORNED OWLS calling near the West River Parkway. And, 78 TUNDRA SWANS on Crane Road near the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 29. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 15 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/15/2011 * NYBU1112.15 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SLATY-BACKED GULL SHORT-EARED OWL SNOWY OWL Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Bonaparte's Gull Glaucous Gull Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/15/2011 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, December 15, 2011 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 December 8 through December 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, SHORT-EARED OWL and SNOWY OWL. December 12, the adult SLATY-BACKED GULL was found again above Niagara Falls. First reported December 3, the gull was seen from the Three Sisters Island, off Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. On Grand Island, December 9, an unexpected and likely migrant SHORT-EARED OWL at Beaver Island State Park, by the golf course building. In the Buffalo Harbor, a SNOWY OWL several days, offshore on the sand spit at Donnelly's Pier. The owl has been viewed at a distance of about one-half mile, from the tower at the Erie Basin Marina. On the 13th, the SNOWY OWL was observed hunting over the waterfowl flocks in the harbor at sunset. December 7, another SNOWY OWL, in the Lake Ontario Plains, along Route 18 in the Town of Yates, one mile east of Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road. Also this week - at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, a MERLIN at Mirror Lake, and first report this season of PINE SISKIN, with 20 AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. Also in the cemetery, 5 WILD TURKEYS. PEREGRINE FALCONS - one along Main Street in Buffalo, and another on a traffic signal cable at Ensminger and Sheridan Parkside Road in Tonawanda. On the upper Niagara River, off Riverside in Buffalo, thousands of BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and a GLAUCOUS GULL at the marina on Aqua Lane in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 22. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 15 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/15/2011 * NYBU1112.15 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SLATY-BACKED GULL SHORT-EARED OWL SNOWY OWL Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Bonaparte's Gull Glaucous Gull Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/15/2011 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, December 15, 2011 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 December 8 through December 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, SHORT-EARED OWL and SNOWY OWL. December 12, the adult SLATY-BACKED GULL was found again above Niagara Falls. First reported December 3, the gull was seen from the Three Sisters Island, off Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. On Grand Island, December 9, an unexpected and likely migrant SHORT-EARED OWL at Beaver Island State Park, by the golf course building. In the Buffalo Harbor, a SNOWY OWL several days, offshore on the sand spit at Donnelly's Pier. The owl has been viewed at a distance of about one-half mile, from the tower at the Erie Basin Marina. On the 13th, the SNOWY OWL was observed hunting over the waterfowl flocks in the harbor at sunset. December 7, another SNOWY OWL, in the Lake Ontario Plains, along Route 18 in the Town of Yates, one mile east of Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road. Also this week - at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, a MERLIN at Mirror Lake, and first report this season of PINE SISKIN, with 20 AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. Also in the cemetery, 5 WILD TURKEYS. PEREGRINE FALCONS - one along Main Street in Buffalo, and another on a traffic signal cable at Ensminger and Sheridan Parkside Road in Tonawanda. On the upper Niagara River, off Riverside in Buffalo, thousands of BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and a GLAUCOUS GULL at the marina on Aqua Lane in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 22. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/08/2011 * NYBU1112.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SLATY-BACKED GULL POMARINE JAEGER MARSH WREN WILSON'S WARBLER RAZORBILL AMER. WHITE PELICAN Tundra Swan Snow Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck American Coot Purple Sandpiper Parasitic Jaeger Franklin's Gull Little Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Marsh Wren Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/08/2011 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, December 8, 2011 [BOS Meeting, Wednesday, December 14, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The meeting will be the annual holiday party and election of officers. Please bring a desert or treat for the evening.] 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 December 1 through December 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, POMARINE JAEGER, MARSH WREN and WILSON'S WARBLER. At Niagara Falls, December 3 through at least the 6th, an adult SLATY-BACKED GULL above the Horseshoe Falls. Seen from both the Ontario and New York State sides of the falls. In Ontario, the gull has roosted at times on the breakwall at the water control gates, and from New York, it has been seen at a distance from the upper river side of the the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island. Also above the falls, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, 2 to 3 female HARLEQUIN DUCKS at the control gates breakwall, and a PURPLE SANDPIPER off the Engineerium building in Ontario. JAEGERS are unusual on the Niagara River, away from the Great Lakes. December 3, a very rare, juvenile POMARINE JAEGER at the lower river power plants, and a juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER several days above and below the falls. Other Niagara River gulls - FRANKLIN'S GULL still at the power plants with THAYER'S GULLS and ICELAND GULLS. BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE again at the Whirlpool. And LITTLE GULLS at several locations on the lower river. The RAZORBILL off Fort Niagara State Park at Lake Ontario was last reported December 3 and has likely perished. On December 1, the AMER. WHITE PELICAN in Niagara-on-the- Lake, Ontario, took flight from the Custer Sanctuary, and was later seen crossing the lower Niagara River at Lewiston. Away from the Niagara River, December 1, a very late MARSH WREN at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, in the cattails before the railroad tunnel. Waterfowl at the plant included AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, COMMON MERGANSER and 336 RUDDY DUCKS, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE and NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD. From the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, at Windmill Marsh, 2 SNOW GEESE, 28 TUNDRA SWANS, COMMON GOLDENEYE and WOOD DUCK. In the Iroquois Refuge, abundant HOODED MERGANSERS at Ring-neck Marsh, and at Cayuga Pool, 126 AMERICAN COOTS with numbers of GADWALL and NORTHERN SHOVELERS. And for six weeks now, a WILSON'S WARBLER still in a Williamsville yard in Amherst. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 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 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/08/2011 * NYBU1112.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SLATY-BACKED GULL POMARINE JAEGER MARSH WREN WILSON'S WARBLER RAZORBILL AMER. WHITE PELICAN Tundra Swan Snow Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck American Coot Purple Sandpiper Parasitic Jaeger Franklin's Gull Little Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Marsh Wren Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/08/2011 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, December 8, 2011 [BOS Meeting, Wednesday, December 14, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The meeting will be the annual holiday party and election of officers. Please bring a desert or treat for the evening.] 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 December 1 through December 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, POMARINE JAEGER, MARSH WREN and WILSON'S WARBLER. At Niagara Falls, December 3 through at least the 6th, an adult SLATY-BACKED GULL above the Horseshoe Falls. Seen from both the Ontario and New York State sides of the falls. In Ontario, the gull has roosted at times on the breakwall at the water control gates, and from New York, it has been seen at a distance from the upper river side of the the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island. Also above the falls, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, 2 to 3 female HARLEQUIN DUCKS at the control gates breakwall, and a PURPLE SANDPIPER off the Engineerium building in Ontario. JAEGERS are unusual on the Niagara River, away from the Great Lakes. December 3, a very rare, juvenile POMARINE JAEGER at the lower river power plants, and a juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER several days above and below the falls. Other Niagara River gulls - FRANKLIN'S GULL still at the power plants with THAYER'S GULLS and ICELAND GULLS. BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE again at the Whirlpool. And LITTLE GULLS at several locations on the lower river. The RAZORBILL off Fort Niagara State Park at Lake Ontario was last reported December 3 and has likely perished. On December 1, the AMER. WHITE PELICAN in Niagara-on-the- Lake, Ontario, took flight from the Custer Sanctuary, and was later seen crossing the lower Niagara River at Lewiston. Away from the Niagara River, December 1, a very late MARSH WREN at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, in the cattails before the railroad tunnel. Waterfowl at the plant included AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, COMMON MERGANSER and 336 RUDDY DUCKS, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE and NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD. From the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, at Windmill Marsh, 2 SNOW GEESE, 28 TUNDRA SWANS, COMMON GOLDENEYE and WOOD DUCK. In the Iroquois Refuge, abundant HOODED MERGANSERS at Ring-neck Marsh, and at Cayuga Pool, 126 AMERICAN COOTS with numbers of GADWALL and NORTHERN SHOVELERS. And for six weeks now, a WILSON'S WARBLER still in a Williamsville yard in Amherst. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 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 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/01/2011 * NYBU1112.01 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- RAZORBILL AMER. WHITE PELICAN BLACK VULTURE WILSON'S WARBLER Harlequin Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Dunlin Jaeger species Franklin's Gull Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Short-eared Owl - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/01/2011 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, December 1, 2011 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. Niagara Frontier Region highlights of the past two weeks, November 17 to December 1, include RAZORBILL, AMER. WHITE PELICAN, BLACK VULTURE, WILSON'S WARBLER and 12 gulls species. A RAZORBILL continues in the Niagara River currents off Fort Niagara State Park at Lake Ontario. Most recent report November 26. Very rare, especially in November, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN in Ontario, at the Custer Bird Sanctuary on Concession Road 7, just south of Niagara Stone Road in the Town of Niagara-on- the-Lake. Reported several days, through at least November 26, on a small pond at the sanctuary. Up to four BLACK VULTURES still in the lower Niagara River gorge. Reported sporadically with TURKEY VULTURES during the Thanksgiving Day weekend and November 30, soaring and roosting in the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge area. Twelve gull species on the Niagara River over the holiday were highlighted by one or two CALIFORNIA GULLS - November 26 at the lower river power plants, and the 27th above Niagara Falls off the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island. A FRANKLIN'S GULL that had been frequent at Artpark State Park, now reported at the power plants and upriver at Devil's Hole State Park. And, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE at the Whirlpool. Other gulls at the falls and lower river - LITTLE GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, RING-BILLED GULL, HERRING GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL and GREAT BLACK-B. GULL, and a probable THAYER'S GULL at the power plants. A JAEGER SPECIES also said to be at the power plants, and DUNLIN at Three Sisters Islands. November 29, a WILSON'S WARBLER, now in its fifth week in a Williamsville yard in Amherst. Two late OSPREY reports from Clarence - a flyover on November 19 and on the 21st, an OSPREY roosting at the Clarence Center firemans field. Also the 21st, three SHORT-EARED OWLS on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, north of the Iroquois Refuge. And November 20 in Buffalo, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK on the Black Rock Canal, off LaSalle Park at the foot of Porter Avenue. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 8. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Dec 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/01/2011 * NYBU1112.01 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- RAZORBILL AMER. WHITE PELICAN BLACK VULTURE WILSON'S WARBLER Harlequin Duck Turkey Vulture Osprey Dunlin Jaeger species Franklin's Gull Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull California Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Black-leg. Kittiwake Short-eared Owl - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/01/2011 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, December 1, 2011 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. Niagara Frontier Region highlights of the past two weeks, November 17 to December 1, include RAZORBILL, AMER. WHITE PELICAN, BLACK VULTURE, WILSON'S WARBLER and 12 gulls species. A RAZORBILL continues in the Niagara River currents off Fort Niagara State Park at Lake Ontario. Most recent report November 26. Very rare, especially in November, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN in Ontario, at the Custer Bird Sanctuary on Concession Road 7, just south of Niagara Stone Road in the Town of Niagara-on- the-Lake. Reported several days, through at least November 26, on a small pond at the sanctuary. Up to four BLACK VULTURES still in the lower Niagara River gorge. Reported sporadically with TURKEY VULTURES during the Thanksgiving Day weekend and November 30, soaring and roosting in the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge area. Twelve gull species on the Niagara River over the holiday were highlighted by one or two CALIFORNIA GULLS - November 26 at the lower river power plants, and the 27th above Niagara Falls off the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island. A FRANKLIN'S GULL that had been frequent at Artpark State Park, now reported at the power plants and upriver at Devil's Hole State Park. And, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE at the Whirlpool. Other gulls at the falls and lower river - LITTLE GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL, RING-BILLED GULL, HERRING GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL and GREAT BLACK-B. GULL, and a probable THAYER'S GULL at the power plants. A JAEGER SPECIES also said to be at the power plants, and DUNLIN at Three Sisters Islands. November 29, a WILSON'S WARBLER, now in its fifth week in a Williamsville yard in Amherst. Two late OSPREY reports from Clarence - a flyover on November 19 and on the 21st, an OSPREY roosting at the Clarence Center firemans field. Also the 21st, three SHORT-EARED OWLS on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, north of the Iroquois Refuge. And November 20 in Buffalo, a female HARLEQUIN DUCK on the Black Rock Canal, off LaSalle Park at the foot of Porter Avenue. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 8. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 17 Nov 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/17/2011 * NYBU.17 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Sunday, November 20, BOS and Rochester Birding Association field trip to the Niagara River for gulls and waterfowl. Meet at 9 AM in the Fort Niagara State Park lot by the old fort. The trip will cross into Ontario; bring proper border crossing documents. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] RAZORBILL FRANKLIN'S GULL BLACK VULTURE CALIFORNIA GULL WILSON'S WARBLER ROSS'S GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Little Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird White-w. Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/17/2011 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, November 17, 2011 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 November 10 through November 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK VULTURE, CALIFORNIA GULL, WILSON'S WARBLER, ROSS'S GOOSE and GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE. A RAZORBILL continues at the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake Ontario. Reported through at least November 13. Excellent views of the RAZORBILL were provided from Old Fort Niagara, where there is both an admission charge and an impressive, elevated view of the river and lake. Flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS and WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS were also over the fort. Up the Niagara to Lewiston, a FRANKLIN'S GULL still off Artpark State Park. Park at the upper lot and walk a short distance upriver. BLACK VULTURES have been a recent, rare addition to the lower Niagara River. Three were reported November 12 and 13 in the same area as the FRANKLIN'S GULL, between the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge and Artpark. They have been found soaring over the gorge and roosting at the water's edge. The first CALIFORNIA GULL of the season was reported November 13, at the lower river power plants, observed from the Beck Overlook in Ontario. Also at the plants, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and off Lewiston, a LITTLE GULL. Missed on last weeks report - in early November, 9 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, including 3 rare juveniles, above Niagara Falls at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. November 15, a very late WILSON'S WARBLER still in a Williamsville yard in Amherst. Other reports this week - at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge - ROSS'S GOOSE, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 5 CACKLING GEESE. Also a white morph SNOW GOOSE at the marsh. 125 TUNDRA SWANS arrived on the upper Niagara River off Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. Another 22 TUNDRA SWANS at dusk over the Town of Clarence. And at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area, in Clarence, 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. The Bird Report will be not be updated until Thursday, December 1. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 17 Nov 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/17/2011 * NYBU.17 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Sunday, November 20, BOS and Rochester Birding Association field trip to the Niagara River for gulls and waterfowl. Meet at 9 AM in the Fort Niagara State Park lot by the old fort. The trip will cross into Ontario; bring proper border crossing documents. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] RAZORBILL FRANKLIN'S GULL BLACK VULTURE CALIFORNIA GULL WILSON'S WARBLER ROSS'S GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Little Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird White-w. Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/17/2011 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, November 17, 2011 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 November 10 through November 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK VULTURE, CALIFORNIA GULL, WILSON'S WARBLER, ROSS'S GOOSE and GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE. A RAZORBILL continues at the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake Ontario. Reported through at least November 13. Excellent views of the RAZORBILL were provided from Old Fort Niagara, where there is both an admission charge and an impressive, elevated view of the river and lake. Flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS and WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS were also over the fort. Up the Niagara to Lewiston, a FRANKLIN'S GULL still off Artpark State Park. Park at the upper lot and walk a short distance upriver. BLACK VULTURES have been a recent, rare addition to the lower Niagara River. Three were reported November 12 and 13 in the same area as the FRANKLIN'S GULL, between the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge and Artpark. They have been found soaring over the gorge and roosting at the water's edge. The first CALIFORNIA GULL of the season was reported November 13, at the lower river power plants, observed from the Beck Overlook in Ontario. Also at the plants, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and off Lewiston, a LITTLE GULL. Missed on last weeks report - in early November, 9 L. BLACK-B. GULLS, including 3 rare juveniles, above Niagara Falls at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. November 15, a very late WILSON'S WARBLER still in a Williamsville yard in Amherst. Other reports this week - at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge - ROSS'S GOOSE, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 5 CACKLING GEESE. Also a white morph SNOW GOOSE at the marsh. 125 TUNDRA SWANS arrived on the upper Niagara River off Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. Another 22 TUNDRA SWANS at dusk over the Town of Clarence. And at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area, in Clarence, 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. The Bird Report will be not be updated until Thursday, December 1. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 10 Nov 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/10/2011 * NYBU.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- RAZORBILL FRANKLIN'S GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE SNOWY OWL WILSON'S WARBLER Red-throated Loon Common Loon Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose TEAL HYBRID Long-tailed Duck Merlin Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull CUCKOO SPECIES Great Horned Owl Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Amer. Tree Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/10/2011 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, November 10, 2011 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 November 3 through November 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and SNOWY OWL. Very exciting at the mouth of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, November 10 and probably several days before, a RAZORBILL in the river currents off the Coast Guard Station and Old Fort Niagara. Also on Lake Ontario at Fort Niagara, November 3, BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE, LITTLE GULL and 3 juvenile PARASITIC JAEGERS, plus 3 RED-THROATED LOONS and 12 COMMON LOONS. Further up the Niagara River, November 4 to 10, a FRANKLIN'S GULL off Artpark State Park in Lewiston, a short hike up river from the small, upper parking lot at Artpark. In Amherst, November 10, a WILSON'S WARBLER continues a late stay in a Williamsville backyard. Back on November 2, a first seasonal report of SNOWY OWL on the dikes at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. At the plant this week, an unusual TEAL, likely a hybrid individual, resembling a male GREEN-WINGED TEAL, but with elements of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and other odd features. LONG-TAILED DUCK also at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. In the Iroquois Refuge this week, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Ring-neck Marsh, with 10 CACKLING GEESE, and two more GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road. Also 60 PINE SISKINS in the spruces on Casey Road near the Refuge Headquarters. North of the Iroquois Refuge, on Hemlock Ridge Road near Shelby-Barre Townline, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 6 KILLDEER, over 20 HORNED LARKS and 11 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. November 7, a very late CUCKOO SPECIES, likely a YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOO, passed over the Thruway by the airport. Other recent reports - from the Town of Alfred in Allegany County, a mist net bander noted AMER. TREE SPARROWS replaced CHIPPING SPARROWS, starting November 3, and recaptured an AMER. TREE SPARROW banded at the same location last April. In Buffalo, MERLIN at Delaware Park and the Zoo. PILEATED WOODPECKER near Lewiston. And, a GREAT HORNED OWL calling in a yard on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 17. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 10 Nov 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/10/2011 * NYBU.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- RAZORBILL FRANKLIN'S GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE SNOWY OWL WILSON'S WARBLER Red-throated Loon Common Loon Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose TEAL HYBRID Long-tailed Duck Merlin Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Parasitic Jaeger Little Gull CUCKOO SPECIES Great Horned Owl Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Amer. Tree Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/10/2011 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, November 10, 2011 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 November 3 through November 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RAZORBILL, FRANKLIN'S GULL, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE and SNOWY OWL. Very exciting at the mouth of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, November 10 and probably several days before, a RAZORBILL in the river currents off the Coast Guard Station and Old Fort Niagara. Also on Lake Ontario at Fort Niagara, November 3, BLACK- LEG. KITTIWAKE, LITTLE GULL and 3 juvenile PARASITIC JAEGERS, plus 3 RED-THROATED LOONS and 12 COMMON LOONS. Further up the Niagara River, November 4 to 10, a FRANKLIN'S GULL off Artpark State Park in Lewiston, a short hike up river from the small, upper parking lot at Artpark. In Amherst, November 10, a WILSON'S WARBLER continues a late stay in a Williamsville backyard. Back on November 2, a first seasonal report of SNOWY OWL on the dikes at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. At the plant this week, an unusual TEAL, likely a hybrid individual, resembling a male GREEN-WINGED TEAL, but with elements of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and other odd features. LONG-TAILED DUCK also at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. In the Iroquois Refuge this week, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Ring-neck Marsh, with 10 CACKLING GEESE, and two more GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road. Also 60 PINE SISKINS in the spruces on Casey Road near the Refuge Headquarters. North of the Iroquois Refuge, on Hemlock Ridge Road near Shelby-Barre Townline, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 6 KILLDEER, over 20 HORNED LARKS and 11 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. November 7, a very late CUCKOO SPECIES, likely a YELLOW- BILLED CUCKOO, passed over the Thruway by the airport. Other recent reports - from the Town of Alfred in Allegany County, a mist net bander noted AMER. TREE SPARROWS replaced CHIPPING SPARROWS, starting November 3, and recaptured an AMER. TREE SPARROW banded at the same location last April. In Buffalo, MERLIN at Delaware Park and the Zoo. PILEATED WOODPECKER near Lewiston. And, a GREAT HORNED OWL calling in a yard on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 17. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 03 Nov 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/03/2011 * NYBU.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WILSON'S WARBLER NORTHERN PARULA NASHVILLE WARBLER NORTHERN SHRIKE BLACK-HEADED GULL SNOW BUNTING PINE SISKIN Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Gr. White-fr. Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Brant Cackling Goose Scaup species Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Osprey Rough-legged Hawk Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Sanderling Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Eastern Phoebe Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing Amer. Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/03/2011 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, November 03, 2011 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 October 27 through November 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WILSON'S WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, BLACK- HEADED GULL, SNOW BUNTINGS and PINE SISKINS. A late WILSON'S WARBLER was still in a Williamsville yard in Amherst on October 28. Also late on October 30, NORTHERN PARULA in the scrub west of Two Mile Creek Road in Tonawanda, along with first report of NORTHERN SHRIKE, plus 2 AMER. TREE SPARROWS, FIELD SPARROW and 5 FOX SPARROWS. And the third late warbler this week - a NASHVILLE WARBLER on the 30th, on Kraft Road in Fort Erie, Ontario. From the Lake Erie shore in Chautauqua County, October 31, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL at Barcelona Harbor, with over 500 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a LITTLE GULL. SNOW BUNTINGS appeared across the region this week - from the Lake Ontario Plains to Barcelona Harbor and over to the Southern Tier Town of Alfred, in Allegany County. November 2, 6 PINE SISKINS on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. On Lakes Erie and Ontario, a few LONG-TAILED DUCKS and abundant HORNED GREBES. 955 HORNED GREBES counted on Lake Erie between Silver Creek and Barcelona, and on the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 29, HORNED GREBES were the most common waterbird on Lake Ontario. The field trip reported 62 species, including 5 goose species, highlighted by a ROSS'S GOOSE on Route 18 west of Murdock Road in the Orleans County Town of Yates, and 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE - 2 on Lake Ontario off Barker Park, and 2 on Burgess Road in Somerset. Also on the trip, 4 blue-phase SNOW GEESE, CACKLING GOOSE, SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RED- THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, RED-NECKED GREBE, two arriving ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, L. BLACK-B. GULL, and on the trails at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, EASTERN PHOEBE, HERMIT THRUSH, AMERICAN ROBIN, GRAY CATBIRD, CEDAR WAXWING and FOX SPARROW. Other reports this week - an interesting behavior note of 2 lingering OSPREYS harassing COMMON MERGANSERS on the Allegany State Park Reservoir. At Dunkirk Harbor, 15 BRANT. Along the Niagara River in Fort Erie and Buffalo, BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SANDERLING and DUNLIN. And on Grand Island, several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and a WILSON'S SNIPE, on a private property bluebird trail. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 10. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 03 Nov 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/03/2011 * NYBU.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WILSON'S WARBLER NORTHERN PARULA NASHVILLE WARBLER NORTHERN SHRIKE BLACK-HEADED GULL SNOW BUNTING PINE SISKIN Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Gr. White-fr. Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Brant Cackling Goose Scaup species Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Osprey Rough-legged Hawk Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Sanderling Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Eastern Phoebe Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing Amer. Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/03/2011 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, November 03, 2011 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 October 27 through November 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WILSON'S WARBLER, NORTHERN PARULA, NASHVILLE WARBLER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, BLACK- HEADED GULL, SNOW BUNTINGS and PINE SISKINS. A late WILSON'S WARBLER was still in a Williamsville yard in Amherst on October 28. Also late on October 30, NORTHERN PARULA in the scrub west of Two Mile Creek Road in Tonawanda, along with first report of NORTHERN SHRIKE, plus 2 AMER. TREE SPARROWS, FIELD SPARROW and 5 FOX SPARROWS. And the third late warbler this week - a NASHVILLE WARBLER on the 30th, on Kraft Road in Fort Erie, Ontario. From the Lake Erie shore in Chautauqua County, October 31, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL at Barcelona Harbor, with over 500 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a LITTLE GULL. SNOW BUNTINGS appeared across the region this week - from the Lake Ontario Plains to Barcelona Harbor and over to the Southern Tier Town of Alfred, in Allegany County. November 2, 6 PINE SISKINS on Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. On Lakes Erie and Ontario, a few LONG-TAILED DUCKS and abundant HORNED GREBES. 955 HORNED GREBES counted on Lake Erie between Silver Creek and Barcelona, and on the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains on October 29, HORNED GREBES were the most common waterbird on Lake Ontario. The field trip reported 62 species, including 5 goose species, highlighted by a ROSS'S GOOSE on Route 18 west of Murdock Road in the Orleans County Town of Yates, and 4 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE - 2 on Lake Ontario off Barker Park, and 2 on Burgess Road in Somerset. Also on the trip, 4 blue-phase SNOW GEESE, CACKLING GOOSE, SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RED- THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, RED-NECKED GREBE, two arriving ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, L. BLACK-B. GULL, and on the trails at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, EASTERN PHOEBE, HERMIT THRUSH, AMERICAN ROBIN, GRAY CATBIRD, CEDAR WAXWING and FOX SPARROW. Other reports this week - an interesting behavior note of 2 lingering OSPREYS harassing COMMON MERGANSERS on the Allegany State Park Reservoir. At Dunkirk Harbor, 15 BRANT. Along the Niagara River in Fort Erie and Buffalo, BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SANDERLING and DUNLIN. And on Grand Island, several EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and a WILSON'S SNIPE, on a private property bluebird trail. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 10. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 27 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/27/2011 * NYBU1110.27 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- ROSS'S GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE LONG-B. DOWITCHER WILSON'S WARBLER HUMMINGBIRD Black-bellied Plover American Bittern Great Egret Trumpeter Swan Cackling Goose Redhead Surf Scoter Ruffed Grouse Sora American Golden-Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Great Horned Owl Eastern Phoebe Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Yellow-r. Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/27/2011 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, October 27, 2011 [BOS Field Trip - Saturday, October 29, Willie D'Anna will lead a trip through the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch, expect a full day outing, and visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] 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 October 20 through October 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, LONG-B. DOWITCHER, WILSON'S WARBLER and HUMMINGBIRD. A ROSS'S GOOSE continues at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Most recent report October 26; the goose has been present since October 12. Also still at Ring- neck Marsh, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE. East of the Iroquois Refuge, in the Town of Oakfield, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE have been at the Gypsum Ponds on the east side of Hutton Road, for about two weeks. Shorebirds still at Kumpf Marsh on Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge have been highlighted by 6 LONG-B. DOWITCHERS on the 22nd and 23rd, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, WILSON'S SNIPE and an AMERICAN BITTERN. A GREAT EGRET, marked with a wing tag from Ontario, Canada, was found at Mohawk Pool, and TRUMPETER SWANS were reported twice in the refuge and surrounding area. Also the 23rd, 20 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on Chestnut Ridge Road, east of Route 31 in Lockport. From Amherst, October 26, a very late WILSON'S WARBLER in a Williamsville yard. October 23, a HUMMINGBIRD at a feeder in Cheektowaga near West Seneca. Late October HUMMINGBIRDS may be rare vagrant species. Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 5 each of CACKLING GOOSE and REDHEAD, plus a SURF SCOTER. Along Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, EASTERN PHOEBE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, WINTER WREN, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. RUFFED GROUSE also at several locations in the park. GREAT HORNED OWL seen at dusk in the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and three GREAT HORNED OWLS calling in the Iroquois Refuge. An EASTERN TOWHEE in a Buffalo yard. And back on the BOS Count, October 9, 92 species in the Genesee County Towns of Elba and Oakfield, included an unexpected SORA and RUFFED GROUSE.The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 3. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 27 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/27/2011 * NYBU1110.27 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- ROSS'S GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE LONG-B. DOWITCHER WILSON'S WARBLER HUMMINGBIRD Black-bellied Plover American Bittern Great Egret Trumpeter Swan Cackling Goose Redhead Surf Scoter Ruffed Grouse Sora American Golden-Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Great Horned Owl Eastern Phoebe Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Yellow-r. Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/27/2011 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, October 27, 2011 [BOS Field Trip - Saturday, October 29, Willie D'Anna will lead a trip through the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, on Route 78 near Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch, expect a full day outing, and visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] 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 October 20 through October 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, LONG-B. DOWITCHER, WILSON'S WARBLER and HUMMINGBIRD. A ROSS'S GOOSE continues at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Most recent report October 26; the goose has been present since October 12. Also still at Ring- neck Marsh, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE. East of the Iroquois Refuge, in the Town of Oakfield, 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE have been at the Gypsum Ponds on the east side of Hutton Road, for about two weeks. Shorebirds still at Kumpf Marsh on Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge have been highlighted by 6 LONG-B. DOWITCHERS on the 22nd and 23rd, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, WILSON'S SNIPE and an AMERICAN BITTERN. A GREAT EGRET, marked with a wing tag from Ontario, Canada, was found at Mohawk Pool, and TRUMPETER SWANS were reported twice in the refuge and surrounding area. Also the 23rd, 20 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on Chestnut Ridge Road, east of Route 31 in Lockport. From Amherst, October 26, a very late WILSON'S WARBLER in a Williamsville yard. October 23, a HUMMINGBIRD at a feeder in Cheektowaga near West Seneca. Late October HUMMINGBIRDS may be rare vagrant species. Other reports this week - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 5 each of CACKLING GOOSE and REDHEAD, plus a SURF SCOTER. Along Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, EASTERN PHOEBE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, WINTER WREN, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. RUFFED GROUSE also at several locations in the park. GREAT HORNED OWL seen at dusk in the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and three GREAT HORNED OWLS calling in the Iroquois Refuge. An EASTERN TOWHEE in a Buffalo yard. And back on the BOS Count, October 9, 92 species in the Genesee County Towns of Elba and Oakfield, included an unexpected SORA and RUFFED GROUSE.The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, November 3. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 20 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/20/2011 * NYBU1110.20 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- JAEGER SPECIES BLACK-HEADED GULL LITTLE GULL GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Ross's Goose (October 12) Cackling Goose Wood Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Phalarope species Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Common Raven - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/20/2011 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, October 20, 2011 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 October 13 through October 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include JAEGER SPECIES, BLACK-HEADED GULL, LITTLE GULL and GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE. October 15, strong west winds along Lake Erie pushed JAEGERS into the waters off Buffalo. At Hamburg Town Park, at total of 18 JAEGERS, not identified to species, included a group of ten seen on the water, and chasing gulls. In Buffalo, five JAEGERS, likely PARASITIC JAEGERS, were reported at the tower at the Erie Basin Marina. And at LaSalle Park, a single PARASITIC JAEGER in close the railing at the Black Rock Canal, plus another distant JAEGER, a PHALAROPE SPECIES, and COMMON TERN. Also the 15th in Buffalo, at Squaw Island, a BLACK-HEADED GULL and a first winter LITTLE GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the north end of the island, and at the south end, another LITTLE GULL. At the Iroquois Refuge October 13, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 6 CACKLING GEESE at Ring-necked Marsh, and later at the Forrestal Flats north of Oak Orchard Ridge Road. Also, back on October 12, a probable ROSS'S GOOSE at Ring-necked Marsh. Other reports from the Iroquois Refuge this week - at Cayuga Pool, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER, 25 GREAT BLUE HERONS and a few GREAT EGRETS. Another BALD EAGLE at Mohawk Pool with 30 WOOD DUCKS. October 16, on the Niagara River off Grand Island, 615 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS flew down the west river in a ten minute span. From the Southern Tier, several COMMON RAVENS in the Chautauqua County Town of Carroll at the Pennsylvania line. And, in Pendleton in Niagara County, one or two lingering OSPREYS, fishing at the ponds on Alexander Parkway. 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 -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 20 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/20/2011 * NYBU1110.20 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- JAEGER SPECIES BLACK-HEADED GULL LITTLE GULL GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Ross's Goose (October 12) Cackling Goose Wood Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Phalarope species Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Common Raven - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/20/2011 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, October 20, 2011 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 October 13 through October 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include JAEGER SPECIES, BLACK-HEADED GULL, LITTLE GULL and GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE. October 15, strong west winds along Lake Erie pushed JAEGERS into the waters off Buffalo. At Hamburg Town Park, at total of 18 JAEGERS, not identified to species, included a group of ten seen on the water, and chasing gulls. In Buffalo, five JAEGERS, likely PARASITIC JAEGERS, were reported at the tower at the Erie Basin Marina. And at LaSalle Park, a single PARASITIC JAEGER in close the railing at the Black Rock Canal, plus another distant JAEGER, a PHALAROPE SPECIES, and COMMON TERN. Also the 15th in Buffalo, at Squaw Island, a BLACK-HEADED GULL and a first winter LITTLE GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the north end of the island, and at the south end, another LITTLE GULL. At the Iroquois Refuge October 13, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE and 6 CACKLING GEESE at Ring-necked Marsh, and later at the Forrestal Flats north of Oak Orchard Ridge Road. Also, back on October 12, a probable ROSS'S GOOSE at Ring-necked Marsh. Other reports from the Iroquois Refuge this week - at Cayuga Pool, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER, 25 GREAT BLUE HERONS and a few GREAT EGRETS. Another BALD EAGLE at Mohawk Pool with 30 WOOD DUCKS. October 16, on the Niagara River off Grand Island, 615 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS flew down the west river in a ten minute span. From the Southern Tier, several COMMON RAVENS in the Chautauqua County Town of Carroll at the Pennsylvania line. And, in Pendleton in Niagara County, one or two lingering OSPREYS, fishing at the ponds on Alexander Parkway. 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 -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 13 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/13/2011 * NYBU1110.13 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- PURPLE GALLINULE YELLOW WARBLER GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE NORTHERN GOSHAWK Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Redhead Greater Scaup White-winged Scoter Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Yellow-b. Sapsucker Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Robin American Pipit Blackpoll Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/13/2011 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, October 13, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received October 6 through October 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PURPLE GALLINULE, YELLOW WARBLER, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and NORTHERN GOSHAWK. In Port Weller, Ontario, a PURPLE GALLINULE was reported October 10 and 11 in the pond on the east pier. Park at the gate and hike about a half mile to the pond, east of the main trail. October 7, a very late YELLOW WARBLER at the Jaeger Rocks shoreline in Fort Erie, Ontario. On the Fort Erie beaches - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. From the Iroquois Refuge, October 13, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE among the waterfowl at Ring-necked Marsh. Also at Ring-neck Marsh - 75 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 18 AMERICAN ROBINS and 75 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Several reports from October 11 - an adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK was reported again in the Town of Amherst, near the UAW Building on Wherle Drive, west of Transit Road. A reported UPLAND SANDPIPER on a lawn in the Town of Tonawanda. And, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a RED-NECKED GREBE. The BOS October count was conducted on the 9th. A report of 75 species in the northwest section of Niagara County also noted exceptional numbers of BLACKPOLL WARBLERS - 43 in the section, and another 70 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS in the adjacent section. The BLACKPOLL WARBLERS were all near the Lake Ontario shoreline; historically, only single numbers of BLACKPOLL WARBLERS are found in October. Other highlights from the Niagara County section included 20 COMMON LOONS, 9 HORNED GREBES, 3 REDHEADS, GREATER SCAUP, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, COMMON MERGANSER, 11 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 13 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 14 COMMON TERNS, 12 RED- BELLIED WDPKRS., YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, multiple GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS and RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, 21 HERMIT THRUSHES, 16 AMERICAN PIPITS, five warbler species, five sparrow species, 4 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and a single PINE SISKIN. Also this week, LINCOLN'S SPARROWS at Amherst State Park and Bond Lake Park in Lewiston. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 20. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 13 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/13/2011 * NYBU1110.13 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- PURPLE GALLINULE YELLOW WARBLER GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE NORTHERN GOSHAWK Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Redhead Greater Scaup White-winged Scoter Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Yellow-b. Sapsucker Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Robin American Pipit Blackpoll Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/13/2011 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, October 13, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received October 6 through October 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PURPLE GALLINULE, YELLOW WARBLER, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and NORTHERN GOSHAWK. In Port Weller, Ontario, a PURPLE GALLINULE was reported October 10 and 11 in the pond on the east pier. Park at the gate and hike about a half mile to the pond, east of the main trail. October 7, a very late YELLOW WARBLER at the Jaeger Rocks shoreline in Fort Erie, Ontario. On the Fort Erie beaches - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. From the Iroquois Refuge, October 13, 2 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE among the waterfowl at Ring-necked Marsh. Also at Ring-neck Marsh - 75 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 18 AMERICAN ROBINS and 75 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. Several reports from October 11 - an adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK was reported again in the Town of Amherst, near the UAW Building on Wherle Drive, west of Transit Road. A reported UPLAND SANDPIPER on a lawn in the Town of Tonawanda. And, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a RED-NECKED GREBE. The BOS October count was conducted on the 9th. A report of 75 species in the northwest section of Niagara County also noted exceptional numbers of BLACKPOLL WARBLERS - 43 in the section, and another 70 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS in the adjacent section. The BLACKPOLL WARBLERS were all near the Lake Ontario shoreline; historically, only single numbers of BLACKPOLL WARBLERS are found in October. Other highlights from the Niagara County section included 20 COMMON LOONS, 9 HORNED GREBES, 3 REDHEADS, GREATER SCAUP, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, COMMON MERGANSER, 11 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, 13 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 14 COMMON TERNS, 12 RED- BELLIED WDPKRS., YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, multiple GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS and RUBY-CR. KINGLETS, 21 HERMIT THRUSHES, 16 AMERICAN PIPITS, five warbler species, five sparrow species, 4 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS and a single PINE SISKIN. Also this week, LINCOLN'S SPARROWS at Amherst State Park and Bond Lake Park in Lewiston. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 20. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 06 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/06/2011 * NYBU1110.06 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CALIFORNIA GULL BRANT PARASITIC JAEGER SWAINSON'S HAWK [outside region] Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Scaup species Red-br. Merganser American Golden-Plover Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Yellow-billed Cuckoo Yellow-b. Sapsucker Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/06/2011 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, October 6, 2011 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. [There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, October 12, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will discuss results of recent society seasonal counts. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] Highlights of reports received September 29 through October 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CALIFORNIA GULL, BRANT, PARASITIC JAEGER, and outside the region, SWAINSON'S HAWK. October 1 only, a second hand report of CALIFORNIA GULL and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. An early movement of BRANT on October 1; 557 BRANT over Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson, with NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, SCAUP and RED-BR. MERGANSER. October 2, 34 BRANT briefly stopped at the Main Street Beach at Dunkirk Harbor. October 1 to 5, just east of the BOS region, a juvenile SWAINSON'S HAWK in the Monroe County Town of Hamlin, along the Lake Ontario Parkway. Unfortunately, the ground feeding and low flying practices of this rare western species resulted in a fatal collision with an automobile. In Buffalo, September 29, 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS at the source of the Niagara River off LaSalle Park. Also the 29th in Buffalo, at Tifft Nature Preserve, 7 warbler species plus YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, CAROLINA WREN, 5 WINTER WRENS, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, 2 RUBY-CR. KINGLETS and 8 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. The 29th was also a good migration day along the Lake Ontario plains. At Lakeside Beach State Park in the Town of Carlton, 10 warbler species dominated by BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, plus YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, HOUSE WREN, numbers of GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. October 6, just east of Lockport and Albion Roads in the Town of Oakfield, 24 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 11 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 6 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS and 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. And, October 3, in a North Buffalo yard, 20 species attracted to wild berries included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 13. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 06 Oct 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/06/2011 * NYBU1110.06 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CALIFORNIA GULL BRANT PARASITIC JAEGER SWAINSON'S HAWK [outside region] Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Scaup species Red-br. Merganser American Golden-Plover Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Yellow-billed Cuckoo Yellow-b. Sapsucker Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler American Redstart Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/06/2011 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, October 6, 2011 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. [There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, October 12, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will discuss results of recent society seasonal counts. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] Highlights of reports received September 29 through October 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include CALIFORNIA GULL, BRANT, PARASITIC JAEGER, and outside the region, SWAINSON'S HAWK. October 1 only, a second hand report of CALIFORNIA GULL and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. An early movement of BRANT on October 1; 557 BRANT over Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson, with NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, SCAUP and RED-BR. MERGANSER. October 2, 34 BRANT briefly stopped at the Main Street Beach at Dunkirk Harbor. October 1 to 5, just east of the BOS region, a juvenile SWAINSON'S HAWK in the Monroe County Town of Hamlin, along the Lake Ontario Parkway. Unfortunately, the ground feeding and low flying practices of this rare western species resulted in a fatal collision with an automobile. In Buffalo, September 29, 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS at the source of the Niagara River off LaSalle Park. Also the 29th in Buffalo, at Tifft Nature Preserve, 7 warbler species plus YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, CAROLINA WREN, 5 WINTER WRENS, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, 2 RUBY-CR. KINGLETS and 8 WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. The 29th was also a good migration day along the Lake Ontario plains. At Lakeside Beach State Park in the Town of Carlton, 10 warbler species dominated by BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, plus YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, HOUSE WREN, numbers of GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. October 6, just east of Lockport and Albion Roads in the Town of Oakfield, 24 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 11 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 6 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS and 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. And, October 3, in a North Buffalo yard, 20 species attracted to wild berries included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, CHIPPING SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and DARK-EYED JUNCO. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 13. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 29 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/29/2011 * NYBU1109.29 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CONNECTICUT WARBLER Great Egret Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dowitcher species Wilson's Snipe Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Yellow-b. Sapsucker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/29/2011 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, September 29, 2011 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. CONNECTICUT WARBLER was the highlight of 24 warbler species reported September 22 through September 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region. September 27, at Amherst State Park, a CONNECTICUT WARBLER was found on the ridge north of the tennis club. 17 warbler species were noted at the park this week, plus YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. The September 24 BOS and Buffalo Audubon trip to Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo reported 18 warbler species, along with YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and a family of 5 WILD TURKEYS. In the Wyoming County Town of Attica, warblers on Werner Road included 2 ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS, 5 PALM WARBLERS and 2 MOURNING WARBLERS. Shorebirds continue in the Iroquois Refuge at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 at Feeder Road - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, WILSON'S SNIPE and the enigmatic DOWITCHER SPECIES. Also at Iroquois Refuge, an evening roost of 188 GREAT EGRETS at Mohawk Pool and widespread waterfowl including WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Just a few COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this week - 3 over St. Catharines, Ontario, and a single COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Eggertsville in Amherst. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 6. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 29 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/29/2011 * NYBU1109.29 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- CONNECTICUT WARBLER Great Egret Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dowitcher species Wilson's Snipe Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Yellow-b. Sapsucker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/29/2011 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, September 29, 2011 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. CONNECTICUT WARBLER was the highlight of 24 warbler species reported September 22 through September 29 from the Niagara Frontier Region. September 27, at Amherst State Park, a CONNECTICUT WARBLER was found on the ridge north of the tennis club. 17 warbler species were noted at the park this week, plus YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY- CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, SCARLET TANAGER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and WHITE-THR. SPARROW. The September 24 BOS and Buffalo Audubon trip to Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo reported 18 warbler species, along with YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and a family of 5 WILD TURKEYS. In the Wyoming County Town of Attica, warblers on Werner Road included 2 ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS, 5 PALM WARBLERS and 2 MOURNING WARBLERS. Shorebirds continue in the Iroquois Refuge at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 at Feeder Road - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, WILSON'S SNIPE and the enigmatic DOWITCHER SPECIES. Also at Iroquois Refuge, an evening roost of 188 GREAT EGRETS at Mohawk Pool and widespread waterfowl including WOOD DUCK, AMERICAN WIGEON, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Just a few COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this week - 3 over St. Catharines, Ontario, and a single COMMON NIGHTHAWK over Eggertsville in Amherst. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 6. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 22 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/22/2011 * NYBU1109.22 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SANDHILL CRANE NORTHERN GOSHAWK STILT SANDPIPER Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Ring-necked Pheasant Sora Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/22/2011 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, September 22, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received September 15 through September 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANES, NORTHERN GOSHAWK and STILT SANDPIPER. September 16 and 20, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES were reported in the Iroquois Refuge. First, at Cayuga Pool, then over Casey Road by the refuge headquarters. From Amherst, September 21, an unexpected, but well- described, adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK, on Wherle Drive, west of Transit Road, near the UAW building. Shorebirds this week at Kumpf Marsh, at Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge, were highlighted by 2 STILT SANDPIPERS on September 22, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also reported in the Iroquois Refuge - increasing waterfowl species, GREAT EGRET, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER and SORA. And on Grand Island this week, in the overgrown grass on the West River Parkway, a RING-NECKED PHEASANT. This Saturday, September 24, there will be a joint BOS and Buffalo Audubon field trip to Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Meet at 8 AM on Lincoln Parkway, behind the art gallery, near the stairs to Delaware Park Lake. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 29. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 22 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/22/2011 * NYBU1109.22 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SANDHILL CRANE NORTHERN GOSHAWK STILT SANDPIPER Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Ring-necked Pheasant Sora Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/22/2011 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, September 22, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received September 15 through September 22 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SANDHILL CRANES, NORTHERN GOSHAWK and STILT SANDPIPER. September 16 and 20, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES were reported in the Iroquois Refuge. First, at Cayuga Pool, then over Casey Road by the refuge headquarters. From Amherst, September 21, an unexpected, but well- described, adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK, on Wherle Drive, west of Transit Road, near the UAW building. Shorebirds this week at Kumpf Marsh, at Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge, were highlighted by 2 STILT SANDPIPERS on September 22, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also reported in the Iroquois Refuge - increasing waterfowl species, GREAT EGRET, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, OSPREY, BALD EAGLE, NORTHERN HARRIER and SORA. And on Grand Island this week, in the overgrown grass on the West River Parkway, a RING-NECKED PHEASANT. This Saturday, September 24, there will be a joint BOS and Buffalo Audubon field trip to Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Meet at 8 AM on Lincoln Parkway, behind the art gallery, near the stairs to Delaware Park Lake. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 29. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 15 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/15/2011 * NYBU1109.15 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- AMERICAN AVOCET WESTERN SANDPIPER Eared Grebe Great Egret Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Palm Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/15/2011 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, September 15, 2011 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 September 8 through September 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET and WESTERN SANDPIPER. September 9, an AMERICAN AVOCET on the Lake Erie shore of Ontario, at Kraft Road in Fort Erie. Other shorebirds on the Fort Erie beaches - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 3 RED KNOTS, 81 SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, 6 WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and at Rosehill Road, a possible WESTERN SANDPIPER. September 14, fourteen shorebird species at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 at Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge included a positive identification of a WESTERN SANDPIPER, with BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also at Kumpf Marsh, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, GREAT EGRET, CASPIAN TERN and PEREGRINE FALCON. Six shorebird species the Batavia Waste Water Plant this week included a SHORT-B. DOWITCHER, plus EARED GREBE and 35 RUDDY DUCKS. Just east of the Route 98 border of the BOS region, at the turf farms on Transit Road, north of North Byron Road in the Genesee County Town of Elba, another high count of 80 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS with a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and seven other shorebird species. Only one warbler report this week - 3 PALM WARBLERS at the old fort in Fort Erie, Ontario. Plan ahead for a joint BOS and Buffalo Audubon field trip to Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, on Saturday, September 24. Meet at 8 AM on Lincoln Parkway, near the stairs to Delaware Park Lake. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 22. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 15 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/15/2011 * NYBU1109.15 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- AMERICAN AVOCET WESTERN SANDPIPER Eared Grebe Great Egret Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Palm Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/15/2011 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, September 15, 2011 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 September 8 through September 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET and WESTERN SANDPIPER. September 9, an AMERICAN AVOCET on the Lake Erie shore of Ontario, at Kraft Road in Fort Erie. Other shorebirds on the Fort Erie beaches - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 3 RED KNOTS, 81 SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, 6 WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and at Rosehill Road, a possible WESTERN SANDPIPER. September 14, fourteen shorebird species at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 at Feeder Road in the Iroquois Refuge included a positive identification of a WESTERN SANDPIPER, with BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also at Kumpf Marsh, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, GREAT EGRET, CASPIAN TERN and PEREGRINE FALCON. Six shorebird species the Batavia Waste Water Plant this week included a SHORT-B. DOWITCHER, plus EARED GREBE and 35 RUDDY DUCKS. Just east of the Route 98 border of the BOS region, at the turf farms on Transit Road, north of North Byron Road in the Genesee County Town of Elba, another high count of 80 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS with a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and seven other shorebird species. Only one warbler report this week - 3 PALM WARBLERS at the old fort in Fort Erie, Ontario. Plan ahead for a joint BOS and Buffalo Audubon field trip to Delaware Park and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, on Saturday, September 24. Meet at 8 AM on Lincoln Parkway, near the stairs to Delaware Park Lake. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 22. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Buffalo Bird Report 08 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/08/2011 * NYBU1109.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER LONG-B. DOWITCHER Eared Grebe Blue-winged Teal Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-b. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Bluebird Philadelphia Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Indigo Bunting Chipping Sparrow Bobolink - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/08/2011 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, September 8, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received September 1 through September 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and LONG-B. DOWITCHER. September 2, the BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK continues in the Swamp Road WMA in Cattaraugus County. About one mile north on Swamp Road from the Village of Randolph, at a small parking lot on the west side of the road, follow the dike to an Osprey nest to search for the WHISTLING DUCK. BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS were reported at the east and west extremes of the region. September 5, 2 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS north of Batavia, at the Bank Road turf field north of the Thruway. To the west, September 2, 2 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS in the Poth Road turf farms, near Hutchinson Road, north of Highway 3, in Wainfleet, Ontario. September 5, an excellent count of 59 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, on Strouts Road, east of Route 98 and north of Byron Road in the Genesee County Town of Elba. Another 18 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS in the Niagara County Town of Porter, on Braley Road, east of Porter Center Road. At least 15 shorebird species this week at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge, highlighted by LONG-B. DOWITCHER and 4 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also at Kumpf, a high count of 75 BLUE-WINGED TEALS and a MERLIN. Fourteen shorebird species on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario this week included RED KNOTS at Poth Road, Windmill Point and Rock Point Park. On Hutchinson Road, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS and 59 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS; 34 SANDERLINGS and a PALM WARBLER at Rock Point, and at Windmill Point, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. September 5 at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, 15 warbler species with seven flycatcher species - OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, EASTERN PHOEBE and GR. CR. FLYCATCHER. Plus, 6 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, a flock of 50 CHIPPING SPARROWS, and the rare sight of a COMMON NIGHTHAWK roosting on a tree branch. Other reports this week - EARED GREBE at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. And, a flock of 12 INDIGO BUNTINGS with BOBOLINKS and CHIPPING SPARROWS on West Muck Road in Elba. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 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 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Buffalo Bird Report 08 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/08/2011 * NYBU1109.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER LONG-B. DOWITCHER Eared Grebe Blue-winged Teal Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-b. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Eastern Bluebird Philadelphia Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Indigo Bunting Chipping Sparrow Bobolink - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/08/2011 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, September 8, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received September 1 through September 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and LONG-B. DOWITCHER. September 2, the BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK continues in the Swamp Road WMA in Cattaraugus County. About one mile north on Swamp Road from the Village of Randolph, at a small parking lot on the west side of the road, follow the dike to an Osprey nest to search for the WHISTLING DUCK. BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS were reported at the east and west extremes of the region. September 5, 2 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS north of Batavia, at the Bank Road turf field north of the Thruway. To the west, September 2, 2 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPERS in the Poth Road turf farms, near Hutchinson Road, north of Highway 3, in Wainfleet, Ontario. September 5, an excellent count of 59 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, on Strouts Road, east of Route 98 and north of Byron Road in the Genesee County Town of Elba. Another 18 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS in the Niagara County Town of Porter, on Braley Road, east of Porter Center Road. At least 15 shorebird species this week at Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge, highlighted by LONG-B. DOWITCHER and 4 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also at Kumpf, a high count of 75 BLUE-WINGED TEALS and a MERLIN. Fourteen shorebird species on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario this week included RED KNOTS at Poth Road, Windmill Point and Rock Point Park. On Hutchinson Road, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS and 59 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS; 34 SANDERLINGS and a PALM WARBLER at Rock Point, and at Windmill Point, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. September 5 at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, 15 warbler species with seven flycatcher species - OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, EASTERN PHOEBE and GR. CR. FLYCATCHER. Plus, 6 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, a flock of 50 CHIPPING SPARROWS, and the rare sight of a COMMON NIGHTHAWK roosting on a tree branch. Other reports this week - EARED GREBE at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. And, a flock of 12 INDIGO BUNTINGS with BOBOLINKS and CHIPPING SPARROWS on West Muck Road in Elba. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 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 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Buffalo Bird Report 01 Sep 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/01/2011 * NYBU1109.01 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK AMERICAN AVOCET Great Egret Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Long-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Jaeger species Caspian Tern Forster's Tern Olive-s. Flycatcher Philadelphia Vireo Nashville Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/01/2011 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, September 1, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Highlights of reports received August 25 through September 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK and 20 shorebird species including AMERICAN AVOCET. BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was most recently reported August 25, in the Swamp Road WMA in the Cattaraugus County Town of Conewango. At a small parking lot about one mile north of the Village of Randolph, follow the dike to an OSPREY nest. August 30, on the Lake Erie shore in the Town of Hamburg, a second hand report of 6 AMERICAN AVOCETS at Woodlawn Beach Park. Previously, on another Lake Erie beach, August 21, a single AMERICAN AVOCET on the Main Street Beach at Dunkirk Harbor. BOS field trip to the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario on August 28 reported 72 species. At Rock Point Park in Dunnville, WESTERN SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, PEREGRINE FALCON, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and 12 warbler species. On Poth Road near Hutchinson Road in Wainfleet, a WHIMBREL with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. August 25 at Rock Point, 8 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and a FORSTER'S TERN. August 28 and 30, in the Iroquois Refuge at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77, a LONG-B. DOWITCHER among 12 shorebird species. Other recent reports - above the Horseshoe Falls in Ontario, a newly recognized GREAT EGRET colony, with 13 surprisingly late nestlings. Eleven warbler species at Goat Island in Niagara Falls, New York. A distant JAEGER SPECIES on Lake Ontario off Fort Niagara State Park. And, 40 CASPIAN TERNS at Niawanda park, on the east Niagara River in Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 8. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Buffalo Bird Report 25 Aug 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/25/2011 * NYBU1108.25 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK BLACK VULTURE RED-NECKED GREBE Black-bellied Plover Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/25/2011 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 25, 2011 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 18 through August 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, BLACK VULTURE and RED-NECKED GREBE. From Allegany County, August 24, a BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK in the Conewango Swamp WMA, about one mile north of the Village of Randolph. From a small parking lot on Swamp Road, follow the dike to an OSPREY nest. The whistling duck was to the north, among numerous MALLARDS. Whistling duck was first recorded in the BOS region and New York State just last summer. BLACK VULTURE, August 18, with TURKEY VULTURES over Artpark and the lower Niagara River at Lewiston. BLACK VULTURES have been spotted sporadically on the lower river for the past year. August 21, an unexpected RED-NECKED GREBE on Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson. Only one previous August record of RED-NECKED GREBE in the BOS archives, almost thirty years ago. Shorebird migrants - the BOS count along the Lake Erie shore in Ontario August 21 reported several BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS plus RUDDY TURNSTONE and SANDERLINGS, and on Poth Road between Wainfleet and Dunnville, a WHIMBREL with 27 BLACK- BELLIED PLOVERS. In the Iroquois Refuge, at Kumpf Marsh and Feeder Road, 12 shorebird species included an elusive WILSON'S PHALAROPE, and at Paddy #2 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a STILT SANDPIPER. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 1. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Buffalo Bird Report 25 Aug 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/25/2011 * NYBU1108.25 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK BLACK VULTURE RED-NECKED GREBE Black-bellied Plover Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/25/2011 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 25, 2011 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 18 through August 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK, BLACK VULTURE and RED-NECKED GREBE. From Allegany County, August 24, a BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK in the Conewango Swamp WMA, about one mile north of the Village of Randolph. From a small parking lot on Swamp Road, follow the dike to an OSPREY nest. The whistling duck was to the north, among numerous MALLARDS. Whistling duck was first recorded in the BOS region and New York State just last summer. BLACK VULTURE, August 18, with TURKEY VULTURES over Artpark and the lower Niagara River at Lewiston. BLACK VULTURES have been spotted sporadically on the lower river for the past year. August 21, an unexpected RED-NECKED GREBE on Lake Ontario off the Town of Wilson. Only one previous August record of RED-NECKED GREBE in the BOS archives, almost thirty years ago. Shorebird migrants - the BOS count along the Lake Erie shore in Ontario August 21 reported several BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS plus RUDDY TURNSTONE and SANDERLINGS, and on Poth Road between Wainfleet and Dunnville, a WHIMBREL with 27 BLACK- BELLIED PLOVERS. In the Iroquois Refuge, at Kumpf Marsh and Feeder Road, 12 shorebird species included an elusive WILSON'S PHALAROPE, and at Paddy #2 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a STILT SANDPIPER. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 1. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 18 Aug 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/18/2011 * NYBU1108.18 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WOOD STORK Great Egret Green-winged Teal Osprey Bald Eagle Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Caspian Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. White-w. Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/18/2011 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 18, 2011 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. My thanks to everyone who continued to report sightings while the Science Museum updated their phone system and kindly retained the original Dial-a-Bird phone number, though the length of the announcement is limited (to about two paragraphs). Reports received during the first two weeks of August from the Niagara Frontier Region were highlighted by intriguing reports of three to four WOOD STORKS in the vicinity of Chautauqua Lake and Jamestown. August 3, four WOOD STORKS briefly stopped at the Chautauqua Golf Course on Route 394 near the west shore of the lake, and August 17, three WOOD STORKS were flushed from the Martin Road Extension Swamp, near Peck Settlement Road, just south of Jamestown. August 16 and 17, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE at Kumpf Road Marsh on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge. Also at the marsh and surrounding area - GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WILSON'S SNIPE, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, GREAT EGRET, OSPREY, BALD EAGLE and CASPIAN TERN. Along the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario, August 14, eleven shorebird species highlighted by a WHIMBREL with 40 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at the Poth Road turf farms near Rock Point Park in Dunnville. Other shorebirds reported were SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. Also, in Fort Erie, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. at a traditional location - the foot of Kraft Road. And in Allegany County, a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL in the Town of Andover, at Pingry and Bullard Roads. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 25. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 21 Apr 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/21/2011 * NYBU1104.21 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Note the Museum Dial-a-Bird phone line, established around 1965, is still disconnected] YELLOW-THR. WARBLER GOLDEN EAGLE KING EIDER EURASIAN WIGEON Snow Goose Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Purple Martin Pine Warbler Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Purple Finch Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/21/2011 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 April 21, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received April 14 through April 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, GOLDEN EAGLE, KING EIDER and EURASIAN WIGEON. From Chautauqua County, April 17 at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk, an early and very rare migrant YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, with YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, on the trails by the D E C building. Hawk migration steps up at mid-April with major movements of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. A BOS field trip to Braddock's Bay in Rochester on April 17 reported 12 raptor species highlighted by a GOLDEN EAGLE, plus hundreds of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, SHARP-SH. HAWKS, COOPER'S HAWKS and TURKEY VULTURES. In the BOS region on the 17th, over the Wilson Road bridge east of Lakeside Beach State Park in the Town of Carlton, GOLDEN EAGLE with 5 BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, MERLIN and PEREGRINE FALCON. Within Lakeside Beach State Park, SHORT-EARED OWL and PINE WARBLER. April 21, a female KING EIDER in the Wilson Pier channel at Lake Ontario. Also 24 CASPIAN TERNS. EURASIAN WIGEON was still on Goose Pond, April 17, at Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. In the Iroquois Refuge, two SANDHILL CRANES on the 15th - one over Cayuga Pool, the other over Route 77 and Griswold Road. PURPLE MARTIN on Tibbets Road at the Job Corp martin houses. Shorebirds at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road included GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, WILSON'S SNIPE and KILLDEER. And several FIELD SPARROWS around the refuge. Other reports this week - a dark or blue-morph SNOW GOOSE on the Beaver Island State Park golf course on Grand Island. In Amherst, a pair of COOPER'S HAWKS continue nesting activities on Koster Row in Eggerstville. Flocks of up to a dozen NORTHERN FLICKERS and a BALD EAGLE on Wolf Run in the Allegany State Park. FOX SPARROW for several days in an Orchard Park yard, where COMMON REDPOLLS may have finally moved away. At a Town of Bethany feeder, 6 PURPLE FINCHES. And an out-of-habitat BELTED KINGFISHER over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 28. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 21 Apr 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/21/2011 * NYBU1104.21 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Note the Museum Dial-a-Bird phone line, established around 1965, is still disconnected] YELLOW-THR. WARBLER GOLDEN EAGLE KING EIDER EURASIAN WIGEON Snow Goose Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Caspian Tern Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Purple Martin Pine Warbler Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Purple Finch Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/21/2011 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 April 21, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received April 14 through April 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, GOLDEN EAGLE, KING EIDER and EURASIAN WIGEON. From Chautauqua County, April 17 at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk, an early and very rare migrant YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, with YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, on the trails by the D E C building. Hawk migration steps up at mid-April with major movements of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. A BOS field trip to Braddock's Bay in Rochester on April 17 reported 12 raptor species highlighted by a GOLDEN EAGLE, plus hundreds of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, SHARP-SH. HAWKS, COOPER'S HAWKS and TURKEY VULTURES. In the BOS region on the 17th, over the Wilson Road bridge east of Lakeside Beach State Park in the Town of Carlton, GOLDEN EAGLE with 5 BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, MERLIN and PEREGRINE FALCON. Within Lakeside Beach State Park, SHORT-EARED OWL and PINE WARBLER. April 21, a female KING EIDER in the Wilson Pier channel at Lake Ontario. Also 24 CASPIAN TERNS. EURASIAN WIGEON was still on Goose Pond, April 17, at Albion Road in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. In the Iroquois Refuge, two SANDHILL CRANES on the 15th - one over Cayuga Pool, the other over Route 77 and Griswold Road. PURPLE MARTIN on Tibbets Road at the Job Corp martin houses. Shorebirds at Kumpf Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road included GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, WILSON'S SNIPE and KILLDEER. And several FIELD SPARROWS around the refuge. Other reports this week - a dark or blue-morph SNOW GOOSE on the Beaver Island State Park golf course on Grand Island. In Amherst, a pair of COOPER'S HAWKS continue nesting activities on Koster Row in Eggerstville. Flocks of up to a dozen NORTHERN FLICKERS and a BALD EAGLE on Wolf Run in the Allegany State Park. FOX SPARROW for several days in an Orchard Park yard, where COMMON REDPOLLS may have finally moved away. At a Town of Bethany feeder, 6 PURPLE FINCHES. And an out-of-habitat BELTED KINGFISHER over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 28. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 14 Apr 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/14/2011 * NYBU1104.14 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [The phone line at the Museum of Science remains out of service.] SNOWY EGRET BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK VULTURE American Bittern Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow N. Rough-w. Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/14/2011 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, April 14, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received April 7 through April 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY EGRET, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., EURASIAN WIGEON, and BLACK VULTURE. April 11 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a SNOWY EGRET on Berm Pond off Mosquito Junction Trail. Also, 1 or 2 SANDHILL CRANES flying over the preserve. Early arrivals this week - BANK SWALLOW on April 9 on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, and a BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. in a Williamsville yard on April 11. April 10, EURASIAN WIGEON and an AMERICAN X EURASIAN WIGEON with 200 AMERICAN WIGEONS still on Klossen Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on the south side of the dike to the east of Meadville Road near Owens Road. A migrant BLACK VULTURE over the Town of Wilson near Lake Ontario on April 9. From Central New York reports, it appears BLACK VULTURES were on the move across upstate in recent days. Landbird are now joining in with earlier migrant waterfowl and raptors. Plentiful numbers at Tifft Nature Preserve on April 11 included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, PINE WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, over 20 FOX SPARROWS and over 100 DARK- EYED JUNCOS. Many of these species at other locations this week, plus arriving BELTED KINGFISHER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, CHIPPING SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, and PURPLE FINCH. April also brings shorebirds. April 12, right on date, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER on Francis Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. Recent reports from Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge - KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and WILSON'S SNIPE, plus a calling AMERICAN BITTERN, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Other recent reports - At Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. sharing a tree with a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS. BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and CASPIAN TERN on South Park Lake in South Buffalo. At Goat Island and Niagara Falls, GLAUCOUS GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL. In Amherst, nesting COOPER'S HAWKS in a residential setting on Koster Row in Eggertsville. On Posson Road, north of the Iroquois Refuge, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS and 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS. ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. OSPREY and BALD EAGLE on Little Cassadaga Lake in Chautauqua County. COMMON REDPOLLS still at several feeders and a PINE SISKIN in a Hamburg yard. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 14 Apr 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/14/2011 * NYBU1104.14 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [The phone line at the Museum of Science remains out of service.] SNOWY EGRET BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK VULTURE American Bittern Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow N. Rough-w. Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/14/2011 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, April 14, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received April 7 through April 14 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY EGRET, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., EURASIAN WIGEON, and BLACK VULTURE. April 11 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, a SNOWY EGRET on Berm Pond off Mosquito Junction Trail. Also, 1 or 2 SANDHILL CRANES flying over the preserve. Early arrivals this week - BANK SWALLOW on April 9 on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, and a BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. in a Williamsville yard on April 11. April 10, EURASIAN WIGEON and an AMERICAN X EURASIAN WIGEON with 200 AMERICAN WIGEONS still on Klossen Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on the south side of the dike to the east of Meadville Road near Owens Road. A migrant BLACK VULTURE over the Town of Wilson near Lake Ontario on April 9. From Central New York reports, it appears BLACK VULTURES were on the move across upstate in recent days. Landbird are now joining in with earlier migrant waterfowl and raptors. Plentiful numbers at Tifft Nature Preserve on April 11 included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, PINE WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, over 20 FOX SPARROWS and over 100 DARK- EYED JUNCOS. Many of these species at other locations this week, plus arriving BELTED KINGFISHER, EASTERN PHOEBE, TREE SWALLOW, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, CHIPPING SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, and PURPLE FINCH. April also brings shorebirds. April 12, right on date, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER on Francis Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. Recent reports from Kumpf Marsh, on Route 77 in the Iroquois Refuge - KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and WILSON'S SNIPE, plus a calling AMERICAN BITTERN, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Other recent reports - At Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. sharing a tree with a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS. BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON and CASPIAN TERN on South Park Lake in South Buffalo. At Goat Island and Niagara Falls, GLAUCOUS GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL. In Amherst, nesting COOPER'S HAWKS in a residential setting on Koster Row in Eggertsville. On Posson Road, north of the Iroquois Refuge, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS and 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS. ROUGH- LEGGED HAWK in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. OSPREY and BALD EAGLE on Little Cassadaga Lake in Chautauqua County. COMMON REDPOLLS still at several feeders and a PINE SISKIN in a Hamburg yard. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 07 Apr 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/07/2011 * NYBU1104.07 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Efforts are underway to restore the phone line at the Science Museum.] KING EIDER EURASIAN WIGEON BRANT NORTHERN GOSHAWK PINE WARBLER CASPIAN TERN EASTERN TOWHEE Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Brant Green-winged Teal American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk RUFOUS-MORPH Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Yellow-b. Sapsucker Purple Finch Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/07/2011 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, April 7, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 31 through April 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region include KING EIDER, EURASIAN WIGEON, BRANT, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, PINE WARBLER, CASPIAN TERN and EASTERN TOWHEE. April 3, on the Buffalo waterfront, 3 KING EIDERS were relocated in the harbor between the Bell Slip and the breakwall. Other abundant waterfowl in the harbor included AMERICAN WIGEON, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG- TAILED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK. EURASIAN WIGEON was reported at two locations in the Alabama Swamps areas. April 2, a male still in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area at Goose Pond on Albion Road. April 3, another male EURASIAN WIGEON and a probable hybrid EURASIAN X AMERICAN WIGEON in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area; found on Klossen Marsh, on the south side of the dike running east of Meadville Road near Owen Road. April 2, a BRANT in the Orleans County Town of Gaines, on Gaines Basin Road, just south of Route 104. A rare rufous- morph RED-TAILED HAWK also on Gaines Basin Road, north of Bacon Road. Rare and elusive NORTHERN GOSHAWKS at two locations this week - on Coomer Road near Ide Road in the Niagara County Town of Newfane, and at a feeder in Orchard Park. Early April arrivals this week included a PINE WARBLER at a feeder in the Town of Colden, EASTERN TOWHEE in the Allegany County Town of Alfred, and CASPIAN TERN on Lake Erie at Dunkirk Harbor. Also of note - in Allegany State Park, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS and PURPLE FINCHES on the Wolf Run trail. On the upper Niagara River, 52 GREAT EGRETS roosting on both Motor Island and Strawberry Island. BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS on the river included 95 above the Horseshoe Falls and 32 at Motor Island, with many GREAT BLUE HERONS. Also on the Niagara River, BALD EAGLE on nest on Navy Island. 135 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and one LITTLE GULL at Rich's Marina in Riverside. L. BLACK. GULL at Goat Island. Three LITTLE GULLS at Lewiston. And, about 200 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS at the Peace Bridge and above Niagara Falls. Other reports this week - an unexpected BONAPARTE'S GULL with 2 HORNED GREBES and 5 BUFFLEHEADS on a pond on Francis Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. OSPREY nesting activity on River Road in Tonawanda, the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and Allegany State Park. Also in Allegany State Park, 5 BALD EAGLES at Quaker Lake. In a Town of Aurora yard, 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS and a flyover BALD EAGLE. Flocks of 20 to 50 COMMON REDPOLLS at four locations, with single HOARY REDPOLLS in the Bethany and Orchard Park flocks. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 14. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 31 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/31/2011 * NYBU1103.31 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Note the Museum of Science phone line is still out of order] EURASIAN WIGEON GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE OSPREY GREATER YELLOWLEGS SANDHILL CRANE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Eastern Screech-Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/31/2011 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, March 31, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 24 through March 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, OSPREY, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and SANDHILL CRANE. March 27 and 29, a male EURASIAN WIGEON at Goose Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. On the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains March 26, a single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, plus several CACKLING GEESE and TUNDRA SWANS, on Niagara-Orleans Countyline north of Route 18. March 29, a report that 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE had been present for several days on the west side of Eagle Harbor Road, south of West Barre Road in the Orleans County Town of Barre. Other highlights from the BOS trip CEDAR WAXWINGS, COMMON REDPOLLS and a few PINE SISKINS in the Town of Newfane orchards on Route 18. RED-THROATED LOON, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE on Lake Ontario. Other species in the plains included NORTHERN HARRIER, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL, PILEATED WOODPECKER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. March 30, a SANDHILL CRANE migrating over Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. Recent arrivals this week - OSPREY at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, and GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. More EASTERN PHOEBES - two on Old Creek Road in the Town of Alexander, with an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in the nest box and a continuing NORTHERN SHRIKE. From the Southern Tier - FOX SPARROWS at several locations in Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties. COMMON RAVEN at the Beaver Meadow Sanctuary in the Wyoming County Town of Java. Two COMMON RAVENS in the Allegany County Town of Alfred. Also at an Alfred feeder, a rare at higher elevations, RED- BELLIED WDPKR. Other reports - In the Buffalo outer harbor, no report of King Eiders, but abundant waterfowl included GREATER SCAUP and LESSER SCAUP, plus CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, COMMON MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. At feeders - in Orchard Park, HOARY REDPOLL among 20 COMMON REDPOLLS, and another 26 COMMON REDPOLLS on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 31 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/31/2011 * NYBU1103.31 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Note the Museum of Science phone line is still out of order] EURASIAN WIGEON GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE OSPREY GREATER YELLOWLEGS SANDHILL CRANE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Eastern Screech-Owl Red-bellied Wdpkr. Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/31/2011 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, March 31, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 24 through March 31 from the Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, OSPREY, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and SANDHILL CRANE. March 27 and 29, a male EURASIAN WIGEON at Goose Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. On the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains March 26, a single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, plus several CACKLING GEESE and TUNDRA SWANS, on Niagara-Orleans Countyline north of Route 18. March 29, a report that 7 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE had been present for several days on the west side of Eagle Harbor Road, south of West Barre Road in the Orleans County Town of Barre. Other highlights from the BOS trip CEDAR WAXWINGS, COMMON REDPOLLS and a few PINE SISKINS in the Town of Newfane orchards on Route 18. RED-THROATED LOON, HORNED GREBE and RED-NECKED GREBE on Lake Ontario. Other species in the plains included NORTHERN HARRIER, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL, PILEATED WOODPECKER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. March 30, a SANDHILL CRANE migrating over Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. Recent arrivals this week - OSPREY at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, and GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. More EASTERN PHOEBES - two on Old Creek Road in the Town of Alexander, with an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in the nest box and a continuing NORTHERN SHRIKE. From the Southern Tier - FOX SPARROWS at several locations in Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties. COMMON RAVEN at the Beaver Meadow Sanctuary in the Wyoming County Town of Java. Two COMMON RAVENS in the Allegany County Town of Alfred. Also at an Alfred feeder, a rare at higher elevations, RED- BELLIED WDPKR. Other reports - In the Buffalo outer harbor, no report of King Eiders, but abundant waterfowl included GREATER SCAUP and LESSER SCAUP, plus CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, COMMON MERGANSER and RUDDY DUCK. At feeders - in Orchard Park, HOARY REDPOLL among 20 COMMON REDPOLLS, and another 26 COMMON REDPOLLS on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 24 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/24/2011 * NYBU1103.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Note the Science Museum phone line is still out of service, but hoped to be resumed soon.] [Update - On SATURDAY, March 26, BOS Field Trip led by Willie D'Anna to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market parking lot on Route 78 at Route 104 in Wrights Corners, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips, and bring a lunch for a potential full day of excellent birding.] SLATY-BACKED GULL KING EIDER GREAT EGRET Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Redhead Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Ruffed Grouse Sandhill Crane American Woodcock Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Short-eared Owl Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Tree Swallow Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/24/2011 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, March 24, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 17 through March 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, KING EIDER, GREAT EGRET and other spring arrivals. The adult SLATY-BACKED GULL in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara County, first reported March 16, was relocated March 22, in a grass field west of Randall Road, just under a mile north of Braley Road in the Town of Wilson. The gull was present for an hour before it flew off. Other gulls at this location - ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. There are many large fields in the plains where gulls from Lake Ontario and a landfill congregate. On the Buffalo waterfront, up to three KING EIDERS - two females and a first year male, inside the inner harbor off the Nanodynamics building on Fuhrmann Blvd. Viewed from the bike and hiking trail accessed from the parking lot at the first exit off the southbound Skyway Bridge. Before winter conditions interrupted spring - arrivals included very early GREAT EGRETS at the Motor Island heronry on the upper Niagara River - first individual on the 18th, then 3 GREAT EGRETS with 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 114 GREAT BLUE HERONS on the 19th. Also this week, two or more AMERICAN WOODCOCKS at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, EASTERN PHOEBE in the Cattaraugus County Town of Randolph, TREE SWALLOWS at several locations, FOX SPARROW at a feeder in Colden, and EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in the Lake Ontario Plains. This week at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 16 waterfowl species included numbers of LESSER SCAUP and RED- BR. MERGANSERS, 162 TUNDRA SWANS, plus 55 HORNED GREBES. Numerous waterfowl also at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge included LONG-TAILED DUCK, many BUFFLEHEADS and REDHEADS, and 2 HORNED GREBES. More HORNED GREBE reports from Lake Ontario, the Niagara River at the north Grand Island bridges and the Town of Randolph. March 20 in a rich field habitat in eastern Niagara County at Townline and Johnson Creek Road, waterfowl included 1850 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 47 SNOW GEESE and 18 CACKLING GEESE, with 3 sub-adult BALD EAGLES and a flyover SANDHILL CRANE. Other reports this week - on Lake Ontario, RED-THROATED LOONS and RED-NECKED GREBES. From the Allegany County Town of Alfred, RUFFED GROUSE on Pinegrey Road. Migrant MERLINS and RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS at several locations. On Posson Road in Shelby, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER and SHORT-EARED OWL. NORTHERN SHRIKE still at a few locations. Twenty each of LAPLAND LONGSPUR and HORNED LARK plus a SNOW BUNTING on Macomber Road in Oakfield. Flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS at feeders and in migration flights. And an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL calling on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 31. 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
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 24 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/24/2011 * NYBU1103.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Note the Science Museum phone line is still out of service, but hoped to be resumed soon.] [Update - On SATURDAY, March 26, BOS Field Trip led by Willie D'Anna to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market parking lot on Route 78 at Route 104 in Wrights Corners, north of Lockport. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips, and bring a lunch for a potential full day of excellent birding.] SLATY-BACKED GULL KING EIDER GREAT EGRET Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Northern Pintail Redhead Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Merlin Ruffed Grouse Sandhill Crane American Woodcock Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Short-eared Owl Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Tree Swallow Northern Shrike Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/24/2011 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, March 24, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 17 through March 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, KING EIDER, GREAT EGRET and other spring arrivals. The adult SLATY-BACKED GULL in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara County, first reported March 16, was relocated March 22, in a grass field west of Randall Road, just under a mile north of Braley Road in the Town of Wilson. The gull was present for an hour before it flew off. Other gulls at this location - ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. There are many large fields in the plains where gulls from Lake Ontario and a landfill congregate. On the Buffalo waterfront, up to three KING EIDERS - two females and a first year male, inside the inner harbor off the Nanodynamics building on Fuhrmann Blvd. Viewed from the bike and hiking trail accessed from the parking lot at the first exit off the southbound Skyway Bridge. Before winter conditions interrupted spring - arrivals included very early GREAT EGRETS at the Motor Island heronry on the upper Niagara River - first individual on the 18th, then 3 GREAT EGRETS with 5 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 114 GREAT BLUE HERONS on the 19th. Also this week, two or more AMERICAN WOODCOCKS at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, EASTERN PHOEBE in the Cattaraugus County Town of Randolph, TREE SWALLOWS at several locations, FOX SPARROW at a feeder in Colden, and EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in the Lake Ontario Plains. This week at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 16 waterfowl species included numbers of LESSER SCAUP and RED- BR. MERGANSERS, 162 TUNDRA SWANS, plus 55 HORNED GREBES. Numerous waterfowl also at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge included LONG-TAILED DUCK, many BUFFLEHEADS and REDHEADS, and 2 HORNED GREBES. More HORNED GREBE reports from Lake Ontario, the Niagara River at the north Grand Island bridges and the Town of Randolph. March 20 in a rich field habitat in eastern Niagara County at Townline and Johnson Creek Road, waterfowl included 1850 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 47 SNOW GEESE and 18 CACKLING GEESE, with 3 sub-adult BALD EAGLES and a flyover SANDHILL CRANE. Other reports this week - on Lake Ontario, RED-THROATED LOONS and RED-NECKED GREBES. From the Allegany County Town of Alfred, RUFFED GROUSE on Pinegrey Road. Migrant MERLINS and RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS at several locations. On Posson Road in Shelby, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER and SHORT-EARED OWL. NORTHERN SHRIKE still at a few locations. Twenty each of LAPLAND LONGSPUR and HORNED LARK plus a SNOW BUNTING on Macomber Road in Oakfield. Flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS at feeders and in migration flights. And an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL calling on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 31. 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
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 17 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/17/2011 * NYBU1103.17 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [NOTE - the Science Museum phone line is out of service again.] [UPDATE- Plan two weeks ahead for the next BOS Field Trip, led by Willie D'Anna, to the Lake Ontario Plains, on Saturday, March 26. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wright's Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch, and visitors are always welcome.] SLATY-BACKED GULL GOLDEN EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE HOARY REDPOLL Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Green-winged Teal Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/17/2011 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, March 17, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 10 through March 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, GOLDEN EAGLE, SANDHILL CRANE and HOARY REDPOLL. March 16, one of the rarest gulls in North America, the SLATY-BACKED GULL, was found in the Niagara County Town of Porter, on the north side of Youngstown-Wilson Road at Braley Road. Just the fourth record in the BOS archives, the SLATY-BACKED GULL was with a flock that included ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. There are numerous large fields in this area where gulls congregate from Lake Ontario and a nearby landfill. Early hawk flights are into full motion. March 15, a flight high over the mounds at Tifft Nature Preserve, on the Buffalo waterfront, was highlighted by an adult GOLDEN EAGLE, plus 2 BALD EAGLES, over 70 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS, COOPER'S HAWK and over 400 TURKEY VULTURES. At 1 PM, an unexpected SHORT-EARED OWL flew over the mounds and out over Lake Erie. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch on the 15th, almost 800 TURKEY VULTURES, 3 BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN HARRIER, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 15 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 93 RED-TAILED HAWKS, AMERICAN KESTREL and PEREGRINE FALCON. The watch is conducted daily at Lakeside Memorial Park on Camp Road in Hamburg. Visitors are always welcome. Also at the watch - an EASTERN MEADOWLARK on the 12th. COMMON REDPOLLS continue at feeders, bringing a HOARY REDPOLL with 63 COMMON REDPOLLS in the Town of Colden and up to three HOARY REDPOLLS with 20 COMMON REDPOLLS in Wilson. NORTHERN SHRIKE still in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on Owens-Bartel Road. And, 1100 SNOW BUNTINGS on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road south of Route 104. Three SANDHILL CRANES reports this week - one landing on the flats north of Oak Orchard Rdige Road in the Iroquois Refuge, another over the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and a third report of SANDHILL CRANE in a back corn field on Cedar Street in the Town of Newstead. Waterfowl are filling in the newly opening waters across the region. March 13, formerly very rare and now regularly occurring - 37 CACKLING GEESE at Johnson Creek Road and Hartland-Somerset Townline, and at least 4 CACKLING GEESE on Fletcher Chapel Road, east of Route 63 in the Town of Shelby. Small flocks of SNOW GEESE and TUNDRA SWANS from Genesee to Niagara County. In the Town of Alexander in Genesee County, first report of GREEN-WINGED TEAL. And at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 14 waterfowl species plus 5 HORNED GREBES. Other reports this week - on the Niagara River at the north end of Grand Island, wintering waterfowl dwindle, but still number in the thousands. BALD EAGLES incubating on the Cayuga Pool nest in the Iroquois Refuge, and four other BALD EAGLES in the refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. And a PEREGRINE FALCON at the historic Central Terminal building in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 24. 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
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 17 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/17/2011 * NYBU1103.17 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [NOTE - the Science Museum phone line is out of service again.] [UPDATE- Plan two weeks ahead for the next BOS Field Trip, led by Willie D'Anna, to the Lake Ontario Plains, on Saturday, March 26. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market in Wright's Corners, on Route 78 at Route 104, north of Lockport. Bring a lunch, and visitors are always welcome.] SLATY-BACKED GULL GOLDEN EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE HOARY REDPOLL Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Green-winged Teal Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Northern Shrike Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/17/2011 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, March 17, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 10 through March 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, GOLDEN EAGLE, SANDHILL CRANE and HOARY REDPOLL. March 16, one of the rarest gulls in North America, the SLATY-BACKED GULL, was found in the Niagara County Town of Porter, on the north side of Youngstown-Wilson Road at Braley Road. Just the fourth record in the BOS archives, the SLATY-BACKED GULL was with a flock that included ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. There are numerous large fields in this area where gulls congregate from Lake Ontario and a nearby landfill. Early hawk flights are into full motion. March 15, a flight high over the mounds at Tifft Nature Preserve, on the Buffalo waterfront, was highlighted by an adult GOLDEN EAGLE, plus 2 BALD EAGLES, over 70 RED-TAILED HAWKS, 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS, COOPER'S HAWK and over 400 TURKEY VULTURES. At 1 PM, an unexpected SHORT-EARED OWL flew over the mounds and out over Lake Erie. At the Hamburg Hawkwatch on the 15th, almost 800 TURKEY VULTURES, 3 BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN HARRIER, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, 15 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, 93 RED-TAILED HAWKS, AMERICAN KESTREL and PEREGRINE FALCON. The watch is conducted daily at Lakeside Memorial Park on Camp Road in Hamburg. Visitors are always welcome. Also at the watch - an EASTERN MEADOWLARK on the 12th. COMMON REDPOLLS continue at feeders, bringing a HOARY REDPOLL with 63 COMMON REDPOLLS in the Town of Colden and up to three HOARY REDPOLLS with 20 COMMON REDPOLLS in Wilson. NORTHERN SHRIKE still in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on Owens-Bartel Road. And, 1100 SNOW BUNTINGS on Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road south of Route 104. Three SANDHILL CRANES reports this week - one landing on the flats north of Oak Orchard Rdige Road in the Iroquois Refuge, another over the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, and a third report of SANDHILL CRANE in a back corn field on Cedar Street in the Town of Newstead. Waterfowl are filling in the newly opening waters across the region. March 13, formerly very rare and now regularly occurring - 37 CACKLING GEESE at Johnson Creek Road and Hartland-Somerset Townline, and at least 4 CACKLING GEESE on Fletcher Chapel Road, east of Route 63 in the Town of Shelby. Small flocks of SNOW GEESE and TUNDRA SWANS from Genesee to Niagara County. In the Town of Alexander in Genesee County, first report of GREEN-WINGED TEAL. And at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, at least 14 waterfowl species plus 5 HORNED GREBES. Other reports this week - on the Niagara River at the north end of Grand Island, wintering waterfowl dwindle, but still number in the thousands. BALD EAGLES incubating on the Cayuga Pool nest in the Iroquois Refuge, and four other BALD EAGLES in the refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. And a PEREGRINE FALCON at the historic Central Terminal building in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 24. 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
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 10 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/10/2011 * NYBU1103.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-HEADED GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK EARED GREBE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Northern Flicker Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird American Pipit Northern Shrike Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2011 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, March 10, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 3 through March 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCKS, EARED GREBE and spring migration. March 8, the breeding plumage BLACK-HEADED GULL was still present at Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. Two first year male HARLEQUIN DUCKS and an EARED GREBE continue at the main pier. Also in the harbor, HORNED GREBE, 3 LITTLE GULLS, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, CACKLING GOOSE, a flock of NORTHERN PINTAILS and an observation of a COOPER'S HAWK, attempting to lift an AMERICAN COOT carcass from shallow water at the conservation club. Back on March 3, off the loop drive at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, a possible HERRING GULL hybrid or other rare, large gull species. Spring migration is well underway - noted by region wide reports of TUNDRA SWAN flocks and single, territorial AMERICAN ROBINS. Other leading migrants this week - 3 AMERICAN PIPITS in the Genesee County Town of Alexander. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK in Colden, and three RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in an Orchard Park yard. Marsh ducks in the Lake Ontario Plains and Genesee County included AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN SHOVELER and NORTHERN PINTAIL, plus EASTERN BLUEBIRDS at several locations in the plains. Also generally reported - NORTHERN FLICKER, BROWN CREEPER and CAROLINA WREN. On the upper Niagara River around the north end of Grand Island and the Little Niagara River, abundant waterfowl including thousands of CANVASBACKS, GREATER SCAUP, COMMON GOLDENEYES and COMMON MERGANSERS, plus small numbers of HOODED MERGANSERS, RED-BR. MERGANSERS and RUDDY DUCKS. From the lower Niagara River, 6 or more LITTLE GULLS off the Lewiston Docks, and at the Fort Niagara State Park boat launch, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS, a mixed flock of over 200 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 5 BLACK SCOTERS and 1 SURF SCOTER, with WOOD DUCK and RING-NECKED DUCK. Also, two flyover BALD EAGLES. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCON at a previous nest site - the grain elevator at Gallagher's Beach on the Buffalo waterfront. NORTHERN SHRIKES in Alexander and on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. CACKLING GOOSE also over Meadville Road. NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD at the Botanical Gardens in South Buffalo. At feeders, sporadic flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS with a few PINE SISKINS. And RING-NECKED PHEASANTS at unexpected locations - the Peace Bridge area in Buffalo and by a marsh near the Cheektowaga-West Seneca line. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 17. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 10 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/10/2011 * NYBU1103.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- BLACK-HEADED GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK EARED GREBE Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Tundra Swan Cackling Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Northern Flicker Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird American Pipit Northern Shrike Common Redpoll Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2011 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, March 10, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 3 through March 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK-HEADED GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCKS, EARED GREBE and spring migration. March 8, the breeding plumage BLACK-HEADED GULL was still present at Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. Two first year male HARLEQUIN DUCKS and an EARED GREBE continue at the main pier. Also in the harbor, HORNED GREBE, 3 LITTLE GULLS, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, CACKLING GOOSE, a flock of NORTHERN PINTAILS and an observation of a COOPER'S HAWK, attempting to lift an AMERICAN COOT carcass from shallow water at the conservation club. Back on March 3, off the loop drive at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, a possible HERRING GULL hybrid or other rare, large gull species. Spring migration is well underway - noted by region wide reports of TUNDRA SWAN flocks and single, territorial AMERICAN ROBINS. Other leading migrants this week - 3 AMERICAN PIPITS in the Genesee County Town of Alexander. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK in Colden, and three RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in an Orchard Park yard. Marsh ducks in the Lake Ontario Plains and Genesee County included AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN SHOVELER and NORTHERN PINTAIL, plus EASTERN BLUEBIRDS at several locations in the plains. Also generally reported - NORTHERN FLICKER, BROWN CREEPER and CAROLINA WREN. On the upper Niagara River around the north end of Grand Island and the Little Niagara River, abundant waterfowl including thousands of CANVASBACKS, GREATER SCAUP, COMMON GOLDENEYES and COMMON MERGANSERS, plus small numbers of HOODED MERGANSERS, RED-BR. MERGANSERS and RUDDY DUCKS. From the lower Niagara River, 6 or more LITTLE GULLS off the Lewiston Docks, and at the Fort Niagara State Park boat launch, 2 RED-THROATED LOONS, a mixed flock of over 200 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 5 BLACK SCOTERS and 1 SURF SCOTER, with WOOD DUCK and RING-NECKED DUCK. Also, two flyover BALD EAGLES. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCON at a previous nest site - the grain elevator at Gallagher's Beach on the Buffalo waterfront. NORTHERN SHRIKES in Alexander and on Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. CACKLING GOOSE also over Meadville Road. NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD at the Botanical Gardens in South Buffalo. At feeders, sporadic flocks of COMMON REDPOLLS with a few PINE SISKINS. And RING-NECKED PHEASANTS at unexpected locations - the Peace Bridge area in Buffalo and by a marsh near the Cheektowaga-West Seneca line. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 17. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 03 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/03/2011 * NYBU1103.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [UPDATE- Wednesday, March 9, 7 PM. BOS Meeting at the Science Museum. Jim Berry, President of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute will present a lecture on "Birding Field Guides: the Beginning and End?..." Mr. Berry is the foremost expert on the art of Peterson. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] ROSS'S GOOSE BLACK-HEADED GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK EARED GREBE Tundra Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Purple Sandpiper Little Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Horned Lark Brown Creeper Northern Shrike White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch White-w. Crossbill Common Redpoll American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/03/2011 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, March 3, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received February 24 through March 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCKS and EARED GREBE. Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County, continues to attract a list of rare species. March 3, a ROSS'S GOOSE, among CANADA GEESE, on the lawn and later at the outer breakwall. A BLACK-HEADED GULL, in near-breeding plumage, first reported March 1 and still present on the 3Road. Also two immature male HARLEQUIN DUCKS and an EARED GREBE still in harbor, plus 3 LITTLE GULLS and a flock of arriving SNOW GEESE. Abundant waterfowl all along the upper Niagara River. At the source, off Fort Erie, Ontario, concentrations of BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED-BR. MERGANSERS, with REDHEADS, GREATER SCAUP and COMMON MERGANSERS, plus a few LONG-TAILED DUCKS and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. On the river around Grand Island, up to 300 TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State Park, while GREATER SCAUP dominate the west river, and CANVASBACKS cover the east river. Other Grand Island reports - GLAUCOUS GULL at the Beaver Island loop drive, 35 COMMON REDPOLLS by the footbridge at Buckhorn Island State Park, and BROWN CREEPERS at several locations on the island. February 23 at Niagara Falls, a PURPLE SANDPIPER above the falls, off Dufferine Island Park in Ontario. At the lower river power plants and the Lewiston Reservoir, several ICELAND GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULLS. The anticipated return of nesting BALD EAGLES to the Niagara River appears to be in progress. Two eagle nests can be seen on Navy Island, from the water intakes on the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls, New York. February 23, an adult BALD EAGLE was sitting on, and calling from, one of the nests. On the ice around Strawberry Island this week, 3 adult and one sub-adult BALD EAGLES. Back in mid-February, a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL and a pair of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at a feeder in the Cattaraugus County Town of Little Valley. From Genesee County, recent reports from McLernon Road in Bethany included NORTHERN SHRIKE, 225 SNOW BUNTINGS, 120 HORNED LARKS and 3 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, At the creek crossing McLernon Road, HOODED MERGANSER and 18 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. Other reports - migrant TUNDRA SWANS and CANADA GEESE over the Town of Tonawanda. Widespread RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES. And, HOUSE FINCHES and AMERICAN GOLDFINCH moulting to breeding plumage. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 10. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 03 Mar 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/03/2011 * NYBU1103.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [UPDATE- Wednesday, March 9, 7 PM. BOS Meeting at the Science Museum. Jim Berry, President of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute will present a lecture on Birding Field Guides: the Beginning and End?... Mr. Berry is the foremost expert on the art of Peterson. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] ROSS'S GOOSE BLACK-HEADED GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK EARED GREBE Tundra Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Canvasback Redhead Greater Scaup Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Purple Sandpiper Little Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Horned Lark Brown Creeper Northern Shrike White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch White-w. Crossbill Common Redpoll American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/03/2011 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, March 3, 2011 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received February 24 through March 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include ROSS'S GOOSE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, HARLEQUIN DUCKS and EARED GREBE. Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County, continues to attract a list of rare species. March 3, a ROSS'S GOOSE, among CANADA GEESE, on the lawn and later at the outer breakwall. A BLACK-HEADED GULL, in near-breeding plumage, first reported March 1 and still present on the 3Road. Also two immature male HARLEQUIN DUCKS and an EARED GREBE still in harbor, plus 3 LITTLE GULLS and a flock of arriving SNOW GEESE. Abundant waterfowl all along the upper Niagara River. At the source, off Fort Erie, Ontario, concentrations of BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and RED-BR. MERGANSERS, with REDHEADS, GREATER SCAUP and COMMON MERGANSERS, plus a few LONG-TAILED DUCKS and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. On the river around Grand Island, up to 300 TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State Park, while GREATER SCAUP dominate the west river, and CANVASBACKS cover the east river. Other Grand Island reports - GLAUCOUS GULL at the Beaver Island loop drive, 35 COMMON REDPOLLS by the footbridge at Buckhorn Island State Park, and BROWN CREEPERS at several locations on the island. February 23 at Niagara Falls, a PURPLE SANDPIPER above the falls, off Dufferine Island Park in Ontario. At the lower river power plants and the Lewiston Reservoir, several ICELAND GULLS and GLAUCOUS GULLS. The anticipated return of nesting BALD EAGLES to the Niagara River appears to be in progress. Two eagle nests can be seen on Navy Island, from the water intakes on the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls, New York. February 23, an adult BALD EAGLE was sitting on, and calling from, one of the nests. On the ice around Strawberry Island this week, 3 adult and one sub-adult BALD EAGLES. Back in mid-February, a single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL and a pair of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at a feeder in the Cattaraugus County Town of Little Valley. From Genesee County, recent reports from McLernon Road in Bethany included NORTHERN SHRIKE, 225 SNOW BUNTINGS, 120 HORNED LARKS and 3 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, At the creek crossing McLernon Road, HOODED MERGANSER and 18 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. Other reports - migrant TUNDRA SWANS and CANADA GEESE over the Town of Tonawanda. Widespread RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES. And, HOUSE FINCHES and AMERICAN GOLDFINCH moulting to breeding plumage. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 10. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 24 Feb 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/24/2011 * NYBU1102.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- HARLEQUIN DUCK Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Red-br. Nuthatch Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/24/2011 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, February 24, 2011 Thanks to the Science Museum for the repair of the phone line. The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received through February 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HARLEQUIN DUCKS and a brief glimpse of spring migrants. At Dunkirk Harbor, two HARLEQUIN DUCKS still present on February 22. February 17 through 20, widespread reports of some of the real first signs of spring - TURKEY VULTURES, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES. Also, BELTED KINGFISHER returned to Ellicott Creek in the Village of Williamsville, and a KILLDEER over the Town of Colden. Several large flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS were also reported - likely concentrations of wintering birds, not returning breeding birds. BALD EAGLES continue around the upper Niagara River islands and GREAT BLUE HERONS have been standing on nests at the Motor Island heronry. BALD EAGLES also by the nest at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Recent reports from Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo included a GRAY CATBIRD, present since late January, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE, HORNED LARK, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and at least 3 COMMON REDPOLLS. Other COMMON REDPOLLS - counts of 30 at feeders in both the Towns of Shelby and Orchard Park. Other recent reports - an unexpected NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD on Buffalo's east side at Howard and Jefferson Avenue. RED- SHOULDERED HAWK apparently residing on Center Road near Bailey Road, south of East Aurora. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK near Posson Road in Shelby. SHORT-EARED OWL on Wruck Road at Townline Road in Royalton. And a PILEATED WOODPECKER at Meadville and Owens Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 3. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 24 Feb 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/24/2011 * NYBU1102.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- HARLEQUIN DUCK Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Killdeer Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Red-br. Nuthatch Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Northern Shrike White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Red-w. Blackbird Common Grackle Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/24/2011 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, February 24, 2011 Thanks to the Science Museum for the repair of the phone line. The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received through February 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HARLEQUIN DUCKS and a brief glimpse of spring migrants. At Dunkirk Harbor, two HARLEQUIN DUCKS still present on February 22. February 17 through 20, widespread reports of some of the real first signs of spring - TURKEY VULTURES, RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES. Also, BELTED KINGFISHER returned to Ellicott Creek in the Village of Williamsville, and a KILLDEER over the Town of Colden. Several large flocks of AMERICAN ROBINS were also reported - likely concentrations of wintering birds, not returning breeding birds. BALD EAGLES continue around the upper Niagara River islands and GREAT BLUE HERONS have been standing on nests at the Motor Island heronry. BALD EAGLES also by the nest at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Recent reports from Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo included a GRAY CATBIRD, present since late January, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE, HORNED LARK, RED-BR. NUTHATCH, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and at least 3 COMMON REDPOLLS. Other COMMON REDPOLLS - counts of 30 at feeders in both the Towns of Shelby and Orchard Park. Other recent reports - an unexpected NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD on Buffalo's east side at Howard and Jefferson Avenue. RED- SHOULDERED HAWK apparently residing on Center Road near Bailey Road, south of East Aurora. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK near Posson Road in Shelby. SHORT-EARED OWL on Wruck Road at Townline Road in Royalton. And a PILEATED WOODPECKER at Meadville and Owens Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 3. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 17 Feb 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/17/2011 * NYBU1102.17 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- [Sunday, February 20, BOS Field Trip to Dunkirk Harbor. Meet at 9 AM on the main pier in Dunkirk - expect waterfowl, gulls and Bald Eagles. Visitors are always welcome on BOS trips.] HARLEQUIN DUCK Red-throated Loon Eared Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Gadwall American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Common Raven Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Shrike Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Common Redpoll - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/17/2011 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, February 17, 2011 [The Science Museum of phoneline is still out of service] The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. HARLEQUIN DUCK was the highlight of reports received February 10 through February 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region. February 12 at Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County, a second HARLEQUIN DUCK was found by the main pier. One HARLEQUIN DUCK has been present for several weeks; both are first winter males and were reported again on the 15th. Other harbor highlights - EARED GREBE, first winter LITTLE GULL, BLACK SCOTER, RUDDY DUCK and multiple BALD EAGLES. At the eastern boundary of the BOS region, February 14, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK passing over Pearl Creek at Route 19 in the Town of Pavilion, south of Batavia. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS - four in the Lake Ontario Plains this week, plus another on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby with 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS, NORTHERN HARRIER and NORTHERN SHRIKE. Two more SHORT-EARED OWLS, in the field west of Krull Park, on Route 18 in Olcott Beach. On Lake Ontario at Olcott, 7 RED-THROATED LOONS. Along the Lake Ontario shore and plains - WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS at several locations, including 199 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS at Point Breeze in Carlton. At Golden Hill State Park in Somerset, L. BLACK-B. GULL, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS and 10 AMERICAN ROBINS. In Newfane, 6 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, and SNOW BUNTINGS, HORNED LARKS and NORTHERN SHRIKE throughout the lake plains. Around the upper Niagara River islands, abundant waterfowl continue, with small numbers of GREAT BLUE HERONS and a pair or more of BALD EAGLES. At the Mid River Marina on River Road in Tonawanda, a rare in winter flock of LESSER SCAUP, plus D.-CREST. CORMORANT, AMERICAN WIGEON, GADWALL, first winter L. BLACK-B. GULL and 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS. Also this week - PEREGRINE FALCON atop the south Grand Island Bridges. LONG-EARED OWL in the Stevensville Conservation Area on Ott Road in Fort Erie, Ontario. Two COMMON RAVENS, at an unexpected location - passing over a yard in Orchard Park. On Two Mile Creek Road in Tonawanda, 17 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS. And, in a Shelby yard, up to 60 COMMON REDPOLLS through the month. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 24. 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 ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
