- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/08/2014 * NYBU1405.08 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
YELLOW PALM WARBLER RED-NECKED PHALAROPE ROSS'S GOOSE CLAY-COL. SPARROW EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL Red-shouldered Hawk Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Black Tern Chimney Swift Ruby-t. Hummingbird Yellow-b. Sapsucker Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow House Wren Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Blue-winged 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 Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush La. Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Vesper Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/08/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 8, 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. As migration peaks in the Niagara Frontier Region, highlights include warblers, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, ROSS'S GOOSE, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL. Warbler migration stepped up on May 7, with reports of multiple species and high numbers at favored locations including the Lake Ontario shore, Tifft Nature Preserve and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, Amherst State Park, Beaver Island State Park, and Birdsong Park in Orchard Park. At least 23 warbler species were highlighted by two reports of the rare sub-species of PALM WARBLER - the EASTERN or YELLOW PALM WARBLER - one photographed May 4 in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan and a second reported May 6 in West Falls, in the Town of Aurora. YELLOW-THR. WARBLER continued at Amherst State Park in the spruce grove north of the tennis club. At Forest Lawn in Buffalo, another YELLOW- THR. WARBLER with a CLAY-COL. SPARROW, at Mirror Lake. LA. WATERTHRUSH, plus a pair of RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, at Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park. And May 8, PRAIRIE WARBLER and SCARLET TANAGER at Forest Lawn. A rare in spring, and early, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, May 3 in the Genesee County Town of Elba, in the flooded fields north of Mucklands Road. Other shorebirds this week - BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. May 1, a ROSS'S GOOSE at the Niagara-Orleans Countyline Road north of Route 18. In Niagara County, May 3, both EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL and ORCHARD ORIOLE in a Town of Wilson yard. Multiple yard and feeder reports this week of RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRDS, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAKS, BALTIMORE ORIOLES and WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. Other reports included CHIMNEY SWIFT, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, BANK SWALLOW, CLIFF SWALLOW, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, VEERY, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. Also this week - two SANDHILL CRANES over Shelby. Over 400 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at the Bird Island Pier. ICELAND GULL and L. BLACK-B. GULL at Fort Erie, Ontario. GLAUCOUS GULL on Lake Ontario at Johnson Creek. 15 BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. A reported VESPER SPARROW at a feeder at Sunset Beach in Carlton. At Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora, BOBOLINK and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. And, 50 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at Swallow Hollow Trail in the Iroquois Refuge. The May BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. A summary of the October and Christmas Counts will be presented. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 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 - 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
