- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/21/2011
* NYBU1104.21
- Birds mentioned
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YELLOW-THR. WARBLER
GOLDEN EAGLE
KING EIDER
EURASIAN WIGEON
Snow Goose
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Sharp-sh. Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Caspian Tern
Short-eared Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Purple Martin
Pine Warbler
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Purple Finch
Common Redpoll
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/21/2011
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 April 21, 2011
The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum
of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave
a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4)
for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received April 14 through April 21 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, GOLDEN EAGLE,
KING EIDER and EURASIAN WIGEON.
From Chautauqua County, April 17 at Point Gratiot Park in Dunkirk,
an early and very rare migrant YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, with YELLOW-R.
WARBLERS, on the trails by the D E C building.
Hawk migration steps up at mid-April with major movements of
BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. A BOS field trip to Braddock's Bay in Rochester on
April 17 reported 12 raptor species highlighted by a GOLDEN EAGLE,
plus hundreds of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, SHARP-SH. HAWKS, COOPER'S HAWKS
and TURKEY VULTURES.
In the BOS region on the 17th, over the Wilson Road bridge east of
Lakeside Beach State Park in the Town of Carlton, GOLDEN EAGLE with 5
BALD EAGLES, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, MERLIN and PEREGRINE FALCON. Within
Lakeside Beach State Park, SHORT-EARED OWL and PINE WARBLER.
April 21, a female KING EIDER in the Wilson Pier channel at Lake
Ontario. Also 24 CASPIAN TERNS.
EURASIAN WIGEON was still on Goose Pond, April 17, at Albion Road in
the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area.
In the Iroquois Refuge, two SANDHILL CRANES on the 15th - one over
Cayuga Pool, the other over Route 77 and Griswold Road. PURPLE MARTIN
on Tibbets Road at the Job Corp martin houses. Shorebirds at Kumpf
Marsh on Route 77 at Feeder Road included GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, WILSON'S SNIPE and KILLDEER. And
several FIELD SPARROWS around the refuge.
Other reports this week - a dark or blue-morph SNOW GOOSE on the
Beaver Island State Park golf course on Grand Island. In Amherst, a
pair of COOPER'S HAWKS continue nesting activities on Koster Row in
Eggerstville. Flocks of up to a dozen NORTHERN FLICKERS and a BALD
EAGLE on Wolf Run in the Allegany State Park. FOX SPARROW for several
days in an Orchard Park yard, where COMMON REDPOLLS may have finally
moved away. At a Town of Bethany feeder, 6 PURPLE FINCHES. And an
out-of-habitat BELTED KINGFISHER over Woodbridge Avenue in Buffalo.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 28. Please
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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