[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 20 Oct 2016
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/20/2016 * NYBU1610.20 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- AMERICAN AVOCET LONG-B. DOWITCHER GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK PARASITIC JAEGER CLAY-COL. SPARROW Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Winter Wren Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Common Yellowthroat Lincoln's Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/20/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 20, 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 October reports received through the 20th from the Niagara Frontier Region. Shorebird highlights - October 14, two AMERICAN AVOCETS at the landfill wetland on Porter-Center Road in Niagara County. On the 9th, three, adult, LONG-B. DOWITCHERS in the southwest corner of Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Other recent shorebirds at Ruddy, Kumpf and Griswold Road marshes, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, STILT SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. At Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, seen from the west dike, on October 14. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS have been widely reported in the wetlands and marshes. And multiple SANDHILL CRANES, including a young colt, at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. October 20, a late, female, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK at a feeder in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. On Lake Ontario at Sunset Beach in Orleans County, a juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER on October 8. Early in October at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on the 4th and 10th. Other warblers this month - TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, COMMON YELLOW- THROAT, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. Other fall migrants - widespread reports of LINCOLN'S SPARROWS and WINTER WRENS. And back on October 1, an unexpected CLAY-COL. SPARROW at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 20 Oct 2016
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/20/2016 * NYBU1610.20 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- AMERICAN AVOCET LONG-B. DOWITCHER GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK PARASITIC JAEGER CLAY-COL. SPARROW Sandhill Crane Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Winter Wren Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Common Yellowthroat Lincoln's Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/20/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 20, 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 October reports received through the 20th from the Niagara Frontier Region. Shorebird highlights - October 14, two AMERICAN AVOCETS at the landfill wetland on Porter-Center Road in Niagara County. On the 9th, three, adult, LONG-B. DOWITCHERS in the southwest corner of Ruddy Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Other recent shorebirds at Ruddy, Kumpf and Griswold Road marshes, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, STILT SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. At Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, a single GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE, seen from the west dike, on October 14. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS have been widely reported in the wetlands and marshes. And multiple SANDHILL CRANES, including a young colt, at Cayuga Pool and Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. October 20, a late, female, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK at a feeder in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. On Lake Ontario at Sunset Beach in Orleans County, a juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER on October 8. Early in October at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on the 4th and 10th. Other warblers this month - TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, COMMON YELLOW- THROAT, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. Other fall migrants - widespread reports of LINCOLN'S SPARROWS and WINTER WRENS. And back on October 1, an unexpected CLAY-COL. SPARROW at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 - Baltimore Oriole & Purple Finch
Central Park NYC Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PHD, Michael LaCombe, MD (8am to 11:30am) Highlights: Slow Overall. Baltimore Oriole & Purple Finch but only 4 species of Wood Warblers. Some early morning flight of American Robins and Northern Flicker heading north (see below). Canada Goose - 6-8 Lake Wood Duck - 3 (1 male 2 females) Turtle Pond (Mike LaCombe) Mallard - Turtle Pond Ring-billed Gull - flyovers Herring Gull - flyovers Sharp-shinned Hawk - heading north over Humming Tombstone Red-tailed Hawk - adult over Pinetum Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6-7 (2 Shakespeare Garden incl. adult male, 4-5 Pinetum) Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - fewer than 10 early morning flyovers heading north Peregrine Falcon - perched on building SW corner 72nd St. & CPW - calling - frequent early a.m. perch Eastern Phoebe - 2 (north side Turtle Pond, Pinetum) Black-capped Chickadee - 10 throughout (reliable in hemlock Shakespeare Garden) Tufted Titmouse - slight increase since last week (4 at Upper Lobe alone) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2 Shakespeare Garden, 6 Pinetum) decrease White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 slight decrease (Shakespeare Garden, etc.) Winter Wren - 5 Carolina Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - fewer - around 20 throughout Swainson's Thrush - 1 Balancing Rock Hermit Thrush - 10 - feeding on Pokeweed berries American Robin - around 50 heading north in early a.m. Gray Catbird - 3 Purple Finch - female Oven Northern Parula - 4 (Pinetum, n. of Azalea Pond, Shakespeare Garden, Turtle Pond) Magnolia Warbler - 1 Upper Lobe Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Pinetum Eastern Towhee - 1 Ramble (Mike LaCombe) Field Sparrow - 2 Oven Song Sparrow - few Swamp Sparrow - 1 Turtle Pond Dark-eyed Junco - 10 Pinetum Northern Cardinal - residents Common Grackle - a few Baltimore Oriole - hatch-year male Shakespeare Garden (Mike LaCombe) Claude Bloch reported a Blue-headed Vireo in Shakespeare Garden. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 - Baltimore Oriole & Purple Finch
Central Park NYC Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PHD, Michael LaCombe, MD (8am to 11:30am) Highlights: Slow Overall. Baltimore Oriole & Purple Finch but only 4 species of Wood Warblers. Some early morning flight of American Robins and Northern Flicker heading north (see below). Canada Goose - 6-8 Lake Wood Duck - 3 (1 male 2 females) Turtle Pond (Mike LaCombe) Mallard - Turtle Pond Ring-billed Gull - flyovers Herring Gull - flyovers Sharp-shinned Hawk - heading north over Humming Tombstone Red-tailed Hawk - adult over Pinetum Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6-7 (2 Shakespeare Garden incl. adult male, 4-5 Pinetum) Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - fewer than 10 early morning flyovers heading north Peregrine Falcon - perched on building SW corner 72nd St. & CPW - calling - frequent early a.m. perch Eastern Phoebe - 2 (north side Turtle Pond, Pinetum) Black-capped Chickadee - 10 throughout (reliable in hemlock Shakespeare Garden) Tufted Titmouse - slight increase since last week (4 at Upper Lobe alone) Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8 (2 Shakespeare Garden, 6 Pinetum) decrease White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 slight decrease (Shakespeare Garden, etc.) Winter Wren - 5 Carolina Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - fewer - around 20 throughout Swainson's Thrush - 1 Balancing Rock Hermit Thrush - 10 - feeding on Pokeweed berries American Robin - around 50 heading north in early a.m. Gray Catbird - 3 Purple Finch - female Oven Northern Parula - 4 (Pinetum, n. of Azalea Pond, Shakespeare Garden, Turtle Pond) Magnolia Warbler - 1 Upper Lobe Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Pinetum Eastern Towhee - 1 Ramble (Mike LaCombe) Field Sparrow - 2 Oven Song Sparrow - few Swamp Sparrow - 1 Turtle Pond Dark-eyed Junco - 10 Pinetum Northern Cardinal - residents Common Grackle - a few Baltimore Oriole - hatch-year male Shakespeare Garden (Mike LaCombe) Claude Bloch reported a Blue-headed Vireo in Shakespeare Garden. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Hempstead Lake SP
At 10:35 this morning an ADULT BALD EAGLE made a lazy loop over Parking Lot #3 followed a bit later by an ADULT RED-TAILED HAWK. Pleasant end to the the morning's birding. Sy Schiff -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Hempstead Lake SP
At 10:35 this morning an ADULT BALD EAGLE made a lazy loop over Parking Lot #3 followed a bit later by an ADULT RED-TAILED HAWK. Pleasant end to the the morning's birding. Sy Schiff -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Virginia Rail in Prospect Park
There is a Virginia Rail in Prospect Park, in a small patch of phragmites directly opposite the Wellhouse. It is skulking deep in the reeds and takes some patience, unlike the one last month. Getting late for them, too, I think. First reported yesterday by Kathy Toomey as a briefly seen small rail sp. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Virginia Rail in Prospect Park
There is a Virginia Rail in Prospect Park, in a small patch of phragmites directly opposite the Wellhouse. It is skulking deep in the reeds and takes some patience, unlike the one last month. Getting late for them, too, I think. First reported yesterday by Kathy Toomey as a briefly seen small rail sp. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
