- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/24/2014 * NYBU1407.24 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE STILT SANDPIPER SHORT-B. DOWITCHER Great Egret Redhead Ring-necked Duck Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe Yellow-billed Cuckoo Least Flycatcher Cedar Waxwing Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. American Redstart Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Orchard Oriole Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/24/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, July 24, 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. Shorebirds were the highlight of reports received July 18 through July 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region. At Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 14 shorebird species on July 20 highlighted by a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE plus 19 STILT SANDPIPERS and 55 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Also, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 350 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and 4 WILSON'S SNIPE. Ruddy Marsh appears to have attracted and retained the migrant shorebirds - a similar list was reported on the 22nd. July 21 in the northeast Cattaraugus County Town of Yorkshire, first report of migrant TENNESSEE WARBLER, at the Hiliker Road tree farm across from a pond. Also at this spot - BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., AMERICAN REDSTART, RED-EYED VIREO, CEDAR WAXWING and LEAST FLYCATCHER. Elsewhere on Hiliker Road - YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN TOWHEE, INDIGO BUNTING and PURPLE FINCH. Other reports this week - ORCHARD ORIOLES nesting in a yard on Bethany Center Road in Genesee County. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 16 RUDDY DUCKS, RING-NECKED DUCK, 2 REDHEADS, 4 HOODED MERGANSERS, 26 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS and 9 LEAST SANDPIPERS. In Amherst, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS near Maple Road and Niagara Falls Blvd. At Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, 6 VIRGINIA RAILS included a female with 4 young. And an observation from Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island - a GREAT EGRET preying on a SWALLOW taken from a field of cattails. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, July 31. 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
