- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/03/2013 * NYBU1310.03 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
[There will be a BOS meeting at 7 PM Wednesday, October 9, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jean Iron, will present a program on the birds of Iceland, arctic Canada and Greenland. Later this month, Friday evening, October 25, the annual Vaughn Lecture at the science museum. Dr. Bridget Sutchbury of York University in Toronto, will present research on tracking songbird migration between North and Central America. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings, and the Vaughn Lecture is a free event.] NELSON'S SPARROW PARASITIC JAEGER Wood Duck Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Great Horned Owl Ruby-t. Hummingbird Red-br. Nuthatch Golden-cr. Kinglet White-thr. Sparrow Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 10/03/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, October 3,2013 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 September 26 through October 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NELSON'S SPARROW and JAEGERS. September 28, two NELSON'S SPARROWS on the Ellicott Creek Trailway in the Town of Amherst. Formerly known as NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW, this species is a rare, regular migrant during October. Five JAEGERS were reported on three days this week along the Lake Ontario shore off the Town of Wilson. Four were identified as adult PARASITIC JAEGERS, including both dark and light morph plumages. Two of the JAEGERS were harassing a sub-adult BALD EAGLE over the lake. Also moving on Lake Ontario off Wilson - eight waterfowl species including WOOD DUCK, plus COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE and 42 COMMON TERNS. Eleven shorebird species still on the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario. The season's best location has been Pinecrest Point, east of Port Colbourne. A September 28 report listed BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. At feeders on October 2 - a male BALTIMORE ORIOLE continues in West Seneca and a RUBY-T. HUMMINGBIRD in Wilson. Other reports - a pair of adult BALD EAGLES roosted at the Twin Bridges on Oak Orchard Creek in Carlton. PEREGRINE FALCON over I-290 in Amherst. In North Boston, arrival of WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS. Other locations report RED-BR. NUTHATCHES. And, on Grand Island, a GREAT HORNED OWL calling before dawn by the West River Parkway. There will be a BOS meeting at 7 PM Wednesday, October 9, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Jean Iron, will present a program on the birds of Iceland, arctic Canada and Greenland. Later this month, Friday evening, October 25, the annual Vaughn Lecture at the science museum. Dr. Bridget Sutchbury of York University in Toronto, will present research on tracking songbird migration between North and Central America. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings, and the Vaughn Lecture is a free event. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, October 10. 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/ --
