- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 05/24/2012
* NYBU1205.24
- Birds mentioned
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WHIMBREL
BRANT
WILSON'S PHALAROPE
WHITE-R. SANDPIPER
WHITE-W. CROSSBILL
Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Least Bittern
Trumpter Swan
Northern Pintail
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck
Broad-winged Hawk
Merlin
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Glaucous Gull
Black Tern
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Barn Swallow
Brown Creeper
Cape May Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Grasshopper Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 05/24/2012
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 24, 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 17 through May 24 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include WHIMBREL, BRANT, and a Big Day report.
May 17, on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, 2 WHIMBRELS at Morgans
Point in Wainfleet. Also on the lakeshore, at Windmill Point in Fort
Erie, 4 BRANT at the small island west of Windmill Point Road. A pair
of ORCHARD ORIOLE continue at this location. In Fort Erie, At Kraft
Road,
4 RED-HEADED WDPKRS., And shorebirds on the Fort Erie
beaches included 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 8 SEMIPALMATED
PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and 18 LEAST SANDPIPERS.
May 17 and 18, a 24 hour Big Day of birding covering the Batavia
Waste Water Plant, Iroquois Refuge, Tonawanda Wildlife Management
Area, the Lake Ontario Plains, lower Niagara River and Niagara Falls,
reported 164 species including 23 warbler species.
Highlights of the Big Day - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, HORNED
GREBE, LESSER SCAUP and BLACK TERN. In the Iroquois Refuge at Swallow
Hollow Trail, BROWN CREEPER, CERULEAN WARBLER and NORTHERN
WATERTHRUSH, and at Windmill Marsh, a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS and a
RED-HEADED WDPKR. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area,
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER along the dike west of Meadville Road, and to the
east, in the recently drained Cinnamon Marsh, abundant shorebirds
included over 500 LEAST SANDPIPERS plus 10 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS.
Waterfowl highlights in the two areas were NORTHERN PINTAIL, REDHEAD,
RING-NECKED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK.
In the Lake Ontario Plains, RED-THROATED LOON and a flyover PINE
SISKIN at Barker Park. In Somerset, ORCHARD ORIOLE at Hartland and
Lower Lake Road, and at Johnson Creek and Townline Roads, WILSON'S
PHALAROPE and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. Unexpected find at Greenwood
Cemetery in Wilson - 4 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS plus 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS.
BROAD-WINGED HAWKS at two
locations. On the lower Niagara River, 4 COMMON GOLDENEYES,
and concluding the Big Day at the Three Sisters Island at Niagara
Falls, a GLAUCOUS GULL.
Other reports this week - LEAST BITTERNS heard in the Iroquois
Refuge included one at Kumpf Marsh and 2 or 3 at Ring-
neck Marsh by Sour Springs Road. In Buffalo, MERLIN on Woodbridge
Avenue and ten warbler species still at Forest Lawn, including widely
reported BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. On Grand Island, 50 BARN SWALLOWS nesting
under the docks at the Big Six Marina on Whitehaven Road. Five
GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS heard in the Town of Royalton on Pearson Road
between Carmen and Drum Roads. And, ORCHARD ORIOLE in the Southern
Tier, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 31. 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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