- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/17/2014 * NYBU1404.17 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
BREWER'S BLACKBIRD SANDERLING HOODED WARBLER NORTHERN SHRIKE Common Loon American Bittern Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Green Heron Redhead Ring-necked Duck Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Merlin Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Sandhill Crane Greater Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Yellow-b. Sapsucker Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow Common Raven Winter Wren Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/17/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 17, 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. Just the highlights of the many reports received April 10 through April 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Two record early arrivals - April 14, a SANDERLING at the Wilson Pier on Lake Ontario, one month ahead of the region's earliest record. And in Buffalo, April 16, a HOODED WARBLER at Tifft Nature Preserve, near the north blind, a week earlier than previous records. Almost at the latest date record, a NORTHERN SHRIKE, April 14, singing at Buckhorn Island State Park on Grand Island. The BOS April Count, conducted on the 13th, looks to have been a productive day for species and numbers. Reports were highlighted by a rare BREWER'S BLACKBIRD in the Niagara County Town of Porter, in a pasture on Balmer Road, east of Porter Center Road. Also on the count - GOLDEN EAGLE over Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg. NORTHERN GOSHAWK reported over North Boston. In the Iroquois Refuge and Areas - COMMON RAVEN on Podunk Road in Shelby, two separate SANDHILL CRANES, 330 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 91 REDHEADS, 4 VIRGINIA RAILS and 2 EASTERN KINGBIRDS. In Genesee County, a pair of breeding plumage LAPLAND LONGSPURS. Two PINE WARBLERS at Amherst State Park. And, 12 FOX SPARROWS at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. High counts in the Iroquois Refuge this week - a record 268 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh, 800 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS on Feeder Road and 158 HORNED GREBES with 6 RED-NECKED GREBES, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and 4 LONG-TAILED DUCKS at Cayuga Pool. Other reports - PECTORAL SANDPIPERS at several locations and a SPOTTED SANDPIPER plus 500 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. GREEN HERONS at the Berry Road marsh in Pomfret and at Tifft Nature Preserve. In Buffalo, a pair of MERLINS at last year's nest site in the Parkside neighborhood, and 2 VESPER SPARROWS at Forest Lawn. Other arriving species and migrant reports - COMMON LOON, AMERICAN BITTERN, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, CASPIAN TERN, COMMON TERN, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, PEREGRINE FALCON, PURPLE MARTIN, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, WINTER WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 24. 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
