- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/10/2014 * NYBU1407.10 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
YELLOW-H. BLACKBIRD [June 15] AMERICAN AVOCET CANVASBACK CLAY-COL. SPARROW Common Loon D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Common Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Caspian Tern Common Tern Barred Owl Acadian Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Veery Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Magnolia Warbler Pine Warbler Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Indigo Bunting Clay-col. Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/10/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, July 10, 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 2 through July 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, CANVASBACK, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and a late report of YELLOW-H. BLACKBIRD. Back on June 15, a YELLOW-H. BLACKBIRD was photographed at a feeder in Derby, south of Hamburg. On the Lake Erie shore, July 8, five AMERICAN AVOCETS on Wright Beach at Dunkirk Harbor. AMERICAN AVOCETS have become rare but regular summer visitors to the Lake Erie shore in recent years. In Buffalo, July 7, adult male CANVASBACK, rare in July, at the Small Boat Harbor on Fuhrmann Blvd. Also in Buffalo, off the Erie Basin Marina, 800 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS and 500 COMMON TERNS. On the upper Niagara River, 60 GREAT EGRET nestlings at Motor Island. July 3 on the Lake Ontario shore at Olcott, COMMON LOON and 12 CASPIAN TERNS. In the pines at Krull Park in Olcott, 4 PINE WARBLERS and a RED-BR. NUTHATCH. And in the field to the east of Krull Park, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES and 18 BOBOLINKS. During the past week at Allegany State Park, a camper reported 86 species including 17 warbler species, plus COMMON MERGANSER with 8 young, 4 OSPREY nests, BALD EAGLE, BARRED OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and BROWN CREEPER. At Genesee County Park this week, MOURNING WARBLER at four locations, plus multiple WARBLING VIREO and RED-EYED VIREOS, BROWN CREEPER, VEERY, OVENBIRD, HOODED WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and ORCHARD ORIOLE. Also this week - 6 CLIFF SWALLOWS nesting at the Somerset Water Treatment Plant. Another 6 CLIFF SWALLOWS at the Harris Road bridge in Carlton. And an INDIGO BUNTING at a feeder in Cheektowaga. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, July 17. 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
