- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/08/2015 * NYBU1510.08 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
NELSON'S SPARROW BLACK VULTURE Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Snow Goose Canvasback Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Red-br. Merganser Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Yellow-b. Flycatcher Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Brown Thrasher Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. 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 Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Common Yellowthroat Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/08/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 8, 2015 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 the past two weeks, September 24 through October 8, from the Niagara Frontier Region. October 3 and 6, a NELSON'S SPARROW at Amherst State Park. Found in the north meadow, near the cattails. Also in the state park, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on October 6, at the north side of the tennis club building. Two ORANGE-CR. WARBLERS at Bond Lake Park in Lewiston on October 1, with YELLOW-R. WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER and NASHVILLE WARBLER. Initial waterbird migrants along the Lake Ontario shore this week, viewed from Fort Niagara State Park, included one each of CANVASBACK, RED-NECKED GREBE and FORSTER'S TERN, plus numbers of SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, COMMON LOON, BONAPARTE'S GULL and COMMON TERN. October 2, also by the Lake Ontario shore, a female or juvenile HUMMINGBIRD, in a yard in the Village of Wilson. On the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, October 7, migrant shorebirds had reduced to KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS. Other reports from Ontario - 2 SNOW GEESE in Fort Erie, 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at Poth Road in Dunnville, PEREGRINE FALCON at Mohawk Island off Rock Point Provincial Park, and a flock of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at the Mosaic Ponds near Rock Point. Highlights from last week - BLACK VULTURE on the 27th, over the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. Strong warbler migration - a combined list of 18 species from Forest Lawn in Buffalo and the Lake Ontario shore in Niagara County. Also reported, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and numbers of WHITE-THR. SPARROWS. Other recent reports - 5 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS at the Conewango Swamp in Cattaraugus County. BROWN THRASHER in a North Boston yard. And, 3 WILD TURKEYS viewed from a boat cruise on the Buffalo River. There will be a BOS meeting, this Wednesday, October 14, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 15. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] 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
