- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/24/2014 * NYBU1404.24 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
WESTERN GREBE YELLOW-THR. WARBLER Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Green Heron Broad-winged Hawk American Kestrel Virginia Rail Sandhill Crane Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Eastern Whip-poor-will Yellow-b. Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker N. Rough-w. Swallow Common Raven Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Hooded Warbler Eastern Towhee Amer. Tree Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/24/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 24, 2014 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 April 17 through April 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN GREBE and YELLOW-THR. WARBLER. April 18, an exceptional rarity for the region - a WESTERN GREBE on Lake Ontario off Barker Park in the Orleans County Town of Somerset. The grebe was one-half mile off shore with over 140 RED-NECKED GREBES and over 100 HORNED GREBES. This would be the first record of WESTERN GREBE since 1999. In Buffalo, April 24, a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER at Forest Lawn, found in the spruces at Mirror Lake. Also in Buffalo, an early HOODED WARBLER continued at Tifft Nature Preserve through at least April 20. An EASTERN WHIP- POOR-WILL called along the Service Road at Tifft on April 18. Other reports from Tifft and nearby Times Beach Nature Preserve - CASPIAN TERN, AMERICAN BITTERN, GREEN HERON, VIRGINIA RAIL, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, HAIRY WOODPECKER, AMERICAN KESTREL, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN TOWHEE, AMER. TREE SPARROW, FOX SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and PURPLE FINCH. GRAY CATBIRD was first noted April 18, in the Town of Newstead. In Niagara County, April 19, SANDHILL CRANE along Route 18 near Dickersonville Road. Other reports this week - COMMON RAVEN with PILEATED WOODPECKER and YELLOW-R. WARBLER at Birdsong Park on Jewett Holmwood Road in Orchard Park. COMMON RAVEN also carrying food to the River Road power plant in Tonawanda. Abundant numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS, COMMON TERNS, and D.-CREST. CORMORANTS on the upper Niagara River at Black Rock and Riverside. Migrant BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over Tifft Nature Preserve, Buffalo and Tonawanda. Ten RUSTY BLACKBIRDS near Rapids in Lockport. A single RUSTY BLACKBIRD and an AMERICAN CROW at a feeder in Cheektowaga. And, a VESPER SPARROW at a feeder at Sunset Beach, on Lake Ontario in Orleans County. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 1. 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/ --
