- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/07/2012
* NYBU1206.07
- Birds mentioned
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AMER. WHITE PELICAN
RED-THROATED LOON
WILSON'S PHALAROPE
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Common Merganser
Red-br. Merganser
Bald Eagle
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Tennessee Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Pine Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Pine Siskin
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Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 06/07/2012
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, June 7, 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 31 through June 7 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, RED-THROATED LOON
and WILSON'S PHALAROPE.
June 3 and 4, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN on Lisa Pond at Tifft Nature
Preserve in Buffalo.
The RED-THROATED LOON, first reported May 30 at Sinking Ponds Nature
Trails in East Aurora, was last seen the morning of June 4, and not
found later in the day.
At Cinnamon Marsh, on the east side of Meadville Road in the
Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, four WILSON'S PHALAROPES on June
3, with SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED
SANDPIPER, 57 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS.
PURPLE MARTIN boxes have been a success in the Alabama Swamps areas.
Five boxes, on Tibbets Road, Meadville Road and Albion Road, housed 41
nests with 211 eggs at the end of May. Adult and hatch year PURPLE
MARTINS have been feeding at Kumpf Marsh and the Feeder Canal. Also in
the swamps, BALD EAGLES have been fledged or are close to fledging
from three nests.
At North Marsh, on Knowlesville Road in the Oak Orchard Area, a
singing PINE WARBLER on June 3. Late migrant warblers at Lake Ontario
in Wilson this week included TENNESSEE WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER,
BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKPOLL WARBLER and MOURNING WARBLER, plus a
PINE SISKIN.
June 6 on the islands above the Horseshoe Falls, viewed from Goat
Island, 10 GREAT EGRETS with 17 nestlings, 88 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS,
and 536 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 188 nests. On the gorge wall,
PEREGRINE FALCON feeding three nestlings, and on the cataract waters,
GREATER SCAUP, GADWALL, 7 COMMON MERGANSERS and RED-BR. MERGANSER.
Also, a COMMON LOON above the falls at the water control gates.
Other reports this week - In a grassland field in the Genesee County
Town of Alexander, ALDER FLYCATCHER, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, GRAY CATBIRD,
BROWN THRASHER, YELLOW WARBLER, FIELD SPARROW, 2 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS,
30 BOBOLINKS and 5 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. In Buffalo, MERLINS calling,
about a mile apart, on both Shirley Avenue and Woodbridge Avenue.
And, often heard, but rarely spotted, a VIRGINIA RAIL was observed at
the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence.
The Bird Report will not be updated until Thursday evening, June 21.
You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and
reporting.
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