- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/08/2017 * NYBU1706.08 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
BROWN PELICAN WILSON'S PHALAROPE American Bittern Least Bittern Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Trumpeter Swan Bald Eagle Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher L. Black-b. Gull Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Whip-poor-will Alder Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Yellow-thr. Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Cerulean Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-br. Chat - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/08/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 8, 2017 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received June 1 through June 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara River was last reported June 4, off Black Rock Park in Buffalo. Shorebird migrants are still present. In Niagara County, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE from May 31 to June 2, along Wilson-Youngstown Road, west of Fitch Road, in Wilson. In the Town of Somerset, at Lower Lake and Burgess Roads - 12 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 285 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, 1 WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, 5 DUNLIN, 7 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS, numbers of KILLDEER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER, and a L. BLACK-B. GULL. In Ontario, shorebirds at the Mosaic Ponds, north of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville, included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 20 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPER and a probable BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. Also in Ontario, heard at the Wainfleet Bog along Wilson Road, at least 6 WHIP-POOR-WILLS, YELLOW-BR. CHAT, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Later migrants on June 3 - GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and CANADA WARBLER in a Town of Wilson yard. Summer residents in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, along Owens Road, ALDER FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO and two CERULEAN WARBLERS. At Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, LEAST BITTERN, 15 BLACK TERNS, 14 BL.-CR. NIGHT- HERONS and 2 TRUMPETER SWANS. Also this week - CEDAR WAXWING feeding on berries in a Cheektowaga yard. NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD on River Road in North Tonawanda. And in the Lake Ontario Plains, a probable sub- adult BALD EAGLE taking prey from two adult BALD EAGLES. The final BOS meeting of the season will be the annual picnic at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, at 6 PM on Wednesday, June 14. Bring your meal and expect an evening hike through the preserve. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 15. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
