[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 02 Aug 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/02/2012 * NYBU1208.02 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to NEW EMAIL dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- LITTLE BLUE HERON D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Common Merganser Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher L. Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Nighthawk Purple Martin Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Blue-headed Vireo Red Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/02/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 2, 2012 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. LITTLE BLUE HERON was the highlight of reports received July 26 through August 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In the Southern Tier City of Olean, an immature LITTLE BLUE HERON at the confluence of Olean Creek and the Allegany River. First reported July 30 and still present August 1, the heron has been seen from the dike near Adams, Clinton and Greene Streets. Summer COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were reported from two locations this week. One over Woodward Avenue in Tonawanda, and two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS in Buffalo's North Park neighborhood, near Hertel and Starin Avenues. Good numbers of shorebirds July 27 in the low water habitat on the Lake Erie beaches in Fort Erie, Ontario. Highlighted by a WHIMBREL at Rose Hill Road, and a SHORT-B. DOWITCHER at Kraft Road. Also on the beaches, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, abundant LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. RED CROSSBILLS again this week, at least three in the conifers at Vandermark and Watermill Road in the Phillips Creek State Forest in the Allegany County Town of Ward. Also, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and BROWN CREEPER. August 2, at Niagara Falls, off the Three Sisters Islands, a second summer L. BLACK-B. GULL. Above the Horseshoe Falls, two GREAT EGRET nests still occupied, 5 COMMON MERGANSERS and 224 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. In the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas, the count is now 226 banded and fledged PURPLE MARTINS. At the Kumpf Marsh on Route 77, 8 arriving PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, plus KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus 10 CASPIAN TERNS and 2 BLACK TERNS. And on Grand Island this week, over 100 PURPLE MARTINS on the West River Parkway. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 9. 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 02 Aug 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/02/2012 * NYBU1208.02 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to NEW EMAIL dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- LITTLE BLUE HERON D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Common Merganser Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher L. Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Nighthawk Purple Martin Common Raven Red-br. Nuthatch Brown Creeper Blue-headed Vireo Red Crossbill - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/02/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 2, 2012 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. LITTLE BLUE HERON was the highlight of reports received July 26 through August 2 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In the Southern Tier City of Olean, an immature LITTLE BLUE HERON at the confluence of Olean Creek and the Allegany River. First reported July 30 and still present August 1, the heron has been seen from the dike near Adams, Clinton and Greene Streets. Summer COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were reported from two locations this week. One over Woodward Avenue in Tonawanda, and two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS in Buffalo's North Park neighborhood, near Hertel and Starin Avenues. Good numbers of shorebirds July 27 in the low water habitat on the Lake Erie beaches in Fort Erie, Ontario. Highlighted by a WHIMBREL at Rose Hill Road, and a SHORT-B. DOWITCHER at Kraft Road. Also on the beaches, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, abundant LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. RED CROSSBILLS again this week, at least three in the conifers at Vandermark and Watermill Road in the Phillips Creek State Forest in the Allegany County Town of Ward. Also, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, COMMON RAVEN, RED-BR. NUTHATCH and BROWN CREEPER. August 2, at Niagara Falls, off the Three Sisters Islands, a second summer L. BLACK-B. GULL. Above the Horseshoe Falls, two GREAT EGRET nests still occupied, 5 COMMON MERGANSERS and 224 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. In the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas, the count is now 226 banded and fledged PURPLE MARTINS. At the Kumpf Marsh on Route 77, 8 arriving PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, plus KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus 10 CASPIAN TERNS and 2 BLACK TERNS. And on Grand Island this week, over 100 PURPLE MARTINS on the West River Parkway. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 9. 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/ --
