- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/11/2013 * NYBU1307.11 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
AMERICAN AVOCET CLAY-COL. SPARROW FORSTER'S TERN Tundra Swan Ring-necked Duck Bufflehead Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Wild Turkey Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Red-headed Wdpkr. Acadian Flycatcher Common Raven Winter Wren Swainson's Thrush Brown Thrasher Blue-winged Warbler Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler La. Waterthrush Vesper Sparrow Orchard Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/11/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, July 11, 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 the many reports received during the past two weeks, June 27 to July 11, include AMERICAN AVOCETS, CLAY- COL. SPARROWS and FORSTER'S TERN. On the Lake Erie shore at Dunkirk Harbor, July 9, three AMERICAN AVOCETS on the beach near Wright Park. AMERICAN AVOCETS are becoming annual visitors to the harbor. In the Lake Ontario Plains, up to 8 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS, first reported July 7, at Krull Park in Olcott. The sparrows are along the paths cut from the far southeast corner of the soccer fields. Also on the paths, 4 ORCHARD ORIOLES, 3 BROWN THRASHERS, and at the adjacent woodlot, five warbler species including BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. FORSTER'S TERN and TUNDRA SWAN at the Batavia Waste Water Plant on July 4; a rare time and location for both species. Also rarely recorded in summer - RING-NECKED DUCK at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, and a female BUFFLEHEAD on the Niagara River off the West River Parkway on Grand Island. A surprise on the east side of Buffalo - a WILD TURKEY with eight young at East Ferry and Masten Avenues, possibly venturing from a nest site at nearby Forest Lawn Cemetery. A week long camping trip at Allegany State Park reported 94 species, highlighted by six OSPREY nests, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, GREAT HORNED OWL, BARRED OWL, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, WINTER WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, and 18 warbler species including YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER and LA. WATERTHRUSH. PINE WARBLER, with a RED-HEADED WDPKR., at Como Park in Lancaster, and two PINE WARBLERS in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, on Shelby Road, near the state buildings west of Townline Road. From Cattaraugus County, up to 10 PRAIRIE WARBLERS in the Town of Yorkshire, at Hilliker and Keller Roads. Several VESPER SPARROWS in both Yorkshire and Ashford. And in southern Cattaraugus County, 5 COMMON RAVENS in Hinsdale. Other recent reports - in Niagara Falls, NORTHERN HARRIER at the Summit Park Mall property, and COOPER'S HAWK nesting at DeVeaux State Park. In Niagara Falls, Ontario, a recently fledged BALD EAGLE at Black Creek, likely from one of the upper Niagara River nests. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, July 18. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
