- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/05/2016 * NYBU1605.05 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER LA. WATERTHRUSH EVENING GROSBEAK HARLEQUIN DUCK Common Loon Spotted Sandpiper Pileated Woodpecker Cliff Swallow Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/05/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Distribution : Birdeast-l, NYSBirds-l, Ontbirds-l, Geneseebirds-l Thursday, May 5, 2016 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 April 28 through May 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Warbler migration is accelerating - at least a dozen species this week, highlighted by a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER, May 2, at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. A late report of a rare migration find, LA. WATERTHRUSH, April 23, at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Aside from warblers, recent reports included YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, CLIFF SWALLOW, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, PURPLE FINCH, and at Amherst State Park, a PINE SISKIN. May 2, by the Lake Ontario shore, a single EVENING GROSBEAK at a feeder at Sunset Beach in Orleans County. For several days, including May 3, a male HARLEQUIN DUCK at an unexpected location - the Batavia Waste Water Plant, among BUFFLEHEADS on pond T4. At least six HARLEQUIN DUCKS continue in the Niagara Falls rapids off the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island. Other reports this week - arrival of SPOTTED SANDPIPER on Ridge Lea Road in Amherst. COMMON LOON on a yard pond in Sardinia. And PILEATED WOODPECKER at Beaver Island State Park. There will be a BOS meeting, this Wednesday, May 11, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 12. 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
