- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/30/2013 * NYBU1305.30 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
SNOWY EGRET STILT SANDPIPER EURASIAN WIGEON WHIMBREL WHITE-W. CROSSBILL Gadwall American Wigeon Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Yellow-b. Flycatcher Cliff Swallow American Crow Common Raven Swainson's Thrush - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/30/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 30, 2013 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 reports received May 23 through May 30 from the Niagara Frontier Region include SNOWY EGRET, STILT SANDPIPER, EURASIAN WIGEON, WHIMBREL and WHITE-W. CROSSBILL. On the upper Niagara River, May 24, two rare SNOWY EGRETS feeding off the circle drive at the south end of Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. This location is near the Motor Island heronry. May 23 and 24, the season's second report of rare in spring STILT SANDPIPERS - this week 6 STILT SANDPIPERS at Cayuga Pool, on Route 77 in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Also at Cayuga Pool, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS and 12 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS, plus numerous SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and DUNLIN, with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPERS. On the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario, May 24, a rare, late May, EURASIAN WIGEON, paired with an AMERICAN WIGEON, at Rock Point Provincial Park in Dunnville. Still on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, May 23, the highest count of WHIMBRELS in 20 years - 143 at Morgan's Point in Wainfleet. Smaller counts of WHIMBRELS were reported later in the week between Fort Erie and Rock Point, along with over 400 DUNLIN, RUDDY TURNSTONE, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER, plus GADWALL, COMMON MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, BONAPARTE'S GULL and CASPIAN TERN. Well away from Lake Erie, a single WHIMBREL, May 24, passing the Batavia Waste Water Plant. May 30, a very late, single WHITE-W. CROSSBILL at a feeder in the Chautauqua County Town of Westfield. Warblers are still migrating and setting up breeding territories. One report this week of 11 species in the Lake Ontario Plains Town of Wilson, with later migrants - YELLOW- B. FLYCATCHER and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Also this week - 2 CLIFF SWALLOWS at Beaver Island State Park and a COMMON RAVEN, harassed by AMERICAN CROWS, on Woodward Avenue in Tonawanda, not far from the power plant nesting site. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 6. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
