- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/17/2012
* NYBU1205.17
- Birds mentioned
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LAPLAND LONGSPUR
WHITE-W. CROSSBILL
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
ORCHARD ORIOLE
RED-HEADED WDPKR.
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Great Egret
Tundra Swan
Blue-winged Teal
Virginia Rail
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-b. Dowitcher
American Woodcock
Cliff Swallow
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Pipit
Yellow-thr. Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
"Brewster's Warbler"
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-br. Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Grasshopper Sparrow
Bobolink
Rusty Blackbird
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/17/2012
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, May 17, 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.
Highlights of reports received May 10 through May 17 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include LAPLAND LONGSPUR, WHITE-
W. CROSSBILL, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, ORCHARD ORIOLE, RED-HEADED WDPKR.,
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and KENTUCKY WARBLER.
May 11, a lingering LAPLAND LONGSPUR, a male in breeding plumage,
still on Hulbert Road, just north of Youngstown-
Wilson Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson.
In the Southern Tier, May 15, 150 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS at Golden Hill
State Forest, at Chapman Hill Forest Road and Fire Lane Road, in the
the Cattaraugus County Town of Humphrey.
The only report so far this season - COMMON NIGHTHAWK, May 15, over
Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo.
May 13, from the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, two pair of ORCHARD
ORIOLES at Windmill Point, in the evergreens on the walk to the beach.
Also in Fort Erie, four RED-HEADED WDPKRS. - two at Kraft Road and two
at Erie Beach Park, and at Buffalo Road, TUNDRA SWAN and 3 BLUE-WINGED
TEAL.
A combined 26 or more warbler species this week highlighted by a
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on the 12th,
and on the 14th, at Tifft, a heard but not seen, KENTUCKY WARBLER. A
"BREWSTER'S WARBLER" in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge on the
Dunlop Road Trail from the Feeder Road parking lot off West Shelby
Road. CERULEAN WARBLER also in the Iroquois Refuge on Feeder Road at
Mohawk Pool and in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area on the
Owens-Bartel Road Trail. And, several reports of later arriving
BLACKPOLL WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER.
May 11, two GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS at the Lewiston Plateau nesting
area near Artpark in Lewiston.
Shorebird migration steps up at this time. In the Tonawanda Wildlife
Management Area, Cinnamon Marsh on the east of side of Meadville Road
has been drained, attracting SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY
SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER,
PECTORAL SANDPIPER and DUNLIN, plus 14 GREAT EGRETS and VIRGINIA RAIL.
In Fort Erie, four SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,
KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and
DUNLIN. And on the Somerset-Hartland Townline at Johnson Creek Road in
Niagara County, five shorebird species included 50 LESSER YELLOWLEGS
and 59 LEAST SANDPIPERS.
Other recent reports - in addition to over 16 warbler species at
Forest Lawn in Buffalo - AMERICAN WOODCOCK, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and
PINE SISKIN. CLIFF SWALLOW at the Peace Bridge. Another PINE SISKIN
and a RUSTY BLACKBIRD in a Wilson yard. GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH heard at
night migrating with VEERY and SWAINSON'S THRUSH over the Town of
Tonawanda. And multiple reports of HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH,
AMERICAN PIPIT, YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, SCARLET TANAGER, EASTERN
TOWHEE, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, BOBOLINK and INDIGO BUNTING.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 24. Please
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
- End Transcript
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