- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/20/2018 * NYBU13mm.dd - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
NORTHERN WHEATEAR WILLET Red-shouldered Hawk Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Forster's Tern Barred Owl Pileated Woodpecker - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/20/2018 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 20, 2018 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 September 6 through September 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region. September 18, a very rare vagrant, a NORTHERN WHEATEAR, on the dikes at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. There are only three of four records of NORTHERN WHEATEAR during the last 50 years in the BOS archives. The WHEATEAR is a unique trans-Atlantic migrant, with a history of landing in the region during the last two weeks of September. Shorebird migration continues into September. On the Buffalo waterfront, September 6 through at least the 14th, a WILLET at the seaway slip off Outer Harbor Drive. Also in the outer harbor area, two AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, two BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and numbers of SANDERLINGS. FORSTER'S TERNS were reported September 13 on the Buffalo area waterfront. Two on the beach at Hamburg Town Park, and one at LaSalle Park. On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario in September, at least 11 shorebird species in the fields and sod farms of Wainfleet and Dunnville. Species included AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVER, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, abundant KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Other recent reports - two lingering HUMMINGBIRDS in North Boston, with RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, BARRED OWL and PILEATED WOODPECKER. There will be a BOS field trip this Sunday, September 23, to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. Meet at 8 AM at the footbridge beyond the visitors center. Visitors are always welcome on BOS field trips. 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
