- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/18/2017 * NYBU1705.18 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
SUMMER TANAGER BLACK-NECKED STILT AMER. WHITE PELICAN American Bittern Great Egret Ruddy Duck Merlin Virginia Rail Sora Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Acadian Flycatcher Blue Jay Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee 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 Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Bobolink Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/18/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 18, 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 May 11 through May 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region. May 13 at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, a male SUMMER TANAGER on the ridge over the maintenance area. The BLACK-NECKED STILT in the Iroquois Refuge and Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area was last reported May 11 at both Kumpf and South Feeder Marshes. Also in the marshes - 6 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 8 SORA, 11 VIRGINIA RAILS, 3 BLACK TERNS, 300 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, and on Cayuga Pool, 15 RUDDY DUCKS. In Ontario, May 14, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN continues at the Mosaic Ponds, north of Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville. The pelican was viewed from Canal Bank Road, and has been present since April 30. Shorebirds at Mosaic included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 2 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS, 70 DUNLIN and 20 LEAST SANDPIPERS. Warbler migration broke open this week. At least 24 species reported from Forest Lawn, Tifft Nature Preserve and Rock Point Park. CANADA WARBLER at both Tifft Nature Preserve and Forest Lawn, CAPE MAY WARBLER at Forest Lawn and Rock point, and no reports yet of the late migrant BLACKPOLL WARBLER. Other highlights at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER on the 17th and abundant, over 75, YELLOW WARBLERS. At Rock Point Park - YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, LINCOLN'S SPARROW and WHITE-CR. SPARROW. In Amherst, a small wetland at North Bailey and Ridge Lea Roads, wedged between office buildings and I-290 - numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LEAST SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and GREAT EGRET. In Chautauqua County, DUNLIN and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER in the fields opposite the Sheridan Cemetery on Center Road. Other reports this week - In Evans, a pair of RED-HEADED WDPKRS. returned to Angola-on-the- Lake. Female BOBOLINKS arrived in Cattaraugus County, two weeks after the first male BOBOLINKS. A pair of MERLINS in North Buffalo. GREAT EGRET in a neighborhood pond in Lancaster. Night migrants heard over Tonawanda - VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and WOOD THRUSH. Also migrant flock of 21 BLUE JAYS in Tonawanda. And a RED-TAILED HAWK mobbed by crows at the Veteran's Hospital in Buffalo. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 25. 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
