[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 30 Aug 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/30/2012 * NYBU1208.30 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- BROWN PELICAN YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON D.-crest. Cormorant Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dowitcher species Red-necked Phalarope Caspian Tern Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Olive-s. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/30/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 30, 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. BROWN PELICAN was the highlight of reports received August 23 through August 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region. On the Buffalo waterfront, the evening of August 28, a juvenile BROWN PELICAN at Donnelly's Pier, among abundant D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. The pier is about one half-mile offshore, viewed from the Erie Basin Marina tower. Also in Buffalo, August 26, a probable, juvenile YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON in flight with BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at Tifft Nature Preserve. Migrant COMMON NIGHTHAWKS - 20 over Main and LaSalle Streets in Buffalo back on August 20, and 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at Beaver Island State Park on August 24. Also at Beaver Island State Park this week, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER and 45 CASPIAN TERNS. Shorebirds this week included 11 species on the Lake Erie beaches in Fort Erie, Ontario, including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and 4 DOWITCHERS, plus RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Erie Beach and CANADA WARBLER at Kraft Road. At Tifft Nature Preserve, promising shorebird habitat produced a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. Shorebirds also at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, highlighted by a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on the 29th, plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING and numerous PEEP sandpipers. Also a brief aerial show by a PEREGRINE FALCON, and an escaped or feral BLACK SWAN. Back on August 17, a night migrant UPLAND SANDPIPER heard over Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. This week, night migrant VEERYS and SWAINSON'S THRUSH heard over the Town of Tonawanda. Other early fall migrants this week - eleven warbler species at Amherst State Park including BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY- BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus PHILADELPHIA VIREO and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. Another ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. YELLOW-R. WARBLER, somewhat unexpected, on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. From Hamburg, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and a small flock of EASTERN KINGBIRDS. And, a short, silent flight of 100 PURPLE MARTINS over a Clarence yard. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 6. 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 30 Aug 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/30/2012 * NYBU1208.30 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- BROWN PELICAN YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON D.-crest. Cormorant Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dowitcher species Red-necked Phalarope Caspian Tern Common Nighthawk Red-headed Wdpkr. Olive-s. Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Yellow-r. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-br. Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/30/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 30, 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. BROWN PELICAN was the highlight of reports received August 23 through August 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region. On the Buffalo waterfront, the evening of August 28, a juvenile BROWN PELICAN at Donnelly's Pier, among abundant D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. The pier is about one half-mile offshore, viewed from the Erie Basin Marina tower. Also in Buffalo, August 26, a probable, juvenile YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON in flight with BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at Tifft Nature Preserve. Migrant COMMON NIGHTHAWKS - 20 over Main and LaSalle Streets in Buffalo back on August 20, and 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at Beaver Island State Park on August 24. Also at Beaver Island State Park this week, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER and 45 CASPIAN TERNS. Shorebirds this week included 11 species on the Lake Erie beaches in Fort Erie, Ontario, including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and 4 DOWITCHERS, plus RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Erie Beach and CANADA WARBLER at Kraft Road. At Tifft Nature Preserve, promising shorebird habitat produced a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. Shorebirds also at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, highlighted by a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on the 29th, plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING and numerous PEEP sandpipers. Also a brief aerial show by a PEREGRINE FALCON, and an escaped or feral BLACK SWAN. Back on August 17, a night migrant UPLAND SANDPIPER heard over Shirley Avenue in Buffalo. This week, night migrant VEERYS and SWAINSON'S THRUSH heard over the Town of Tonawanda. Other early fall migrants this week - eleven warbler species at Amherst State Park including BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY- BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus PHILADELPHIA VIREO and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK. Another ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. YELLOW-R. WARBLER, somewhat unexpected, on Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo. From Hamburg, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and a small flock of EASTERN KINGBIRDS. And, a short, silent flight of 100 PURPLE MARTINS over a Clarence yard. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 6. 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/ --
