[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:
[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
