- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/07/2014 * NYBU1408.07 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER LITTLE GULL Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull L. Black-b. Gull Common Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Common Raven - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/07/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 7, 2014 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received July 31 through August 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Migrant shorebirds featured an adult BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, August 3, in the Orleans County Town of Barre, along Route 31A between Mix and Longbridge Roads. On the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario, 13 shorebird species this week included 18 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS among over 100 KILLDEER on Poth Road in Dunnville. Other shorebirds along the lakeshore - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, RUDDY TURNSTONE, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Also, at Rock Point Park, a LONG-TAILED DUCK. In the Southern Tier, August 3, an early OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. August 1, at Fort Niagara State Park, an adult LITTLE GULL with 90 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and 52 COMMON TERNS, plus CLIFF SWALLOWS. And, 2 RED-HEADED WDPKRS. at Fort Niagara this week. Rare summer waterfowl - a female GREATER SCAUP, near Lake Ontario, on 18 Mile Creek at Olcott. And, three WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS continue at Niagara Falls. Other reports this week - at the Lewison Reservoir, 3 immature COMMON RAVENS and 2 sub-adult BALD EAGLES. A second summer L. BLACK-B. GULL at the Lewiston dump. At Tonawanda Island in North Tonawanda, 18 CLIFF SWALLOWS and 90 BANK SWALLOWS. And, undoubtedly they are present, but COMMON NIGHTHAWKS have yet to be reported this summer. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 14. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
