[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 24 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/24/2012 * NYBU1205.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WHIMBREL BRANT WILSON'S PHALAROPE WHITE-R. SANDPIPER WHITE-W. CROSSBILL Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Least Bittern Trumpter Swan Northern Pintail Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Glaucous Gull Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Cape May Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Northern Waterthrush Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/24/2012 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, May 24, 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 17 through May 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHIMBREL, BRANT, and a Big Day report. May 17, on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, 2 WHIMBRELS at Morgans Point in Wainfleet. Also on the lakeshore, at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, 4 BRANT at the small island west of Windmill Point Road. A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLE continue at this location. In Fort Erie, At Kraft Road, 4 RED-HEADED WDPKRS., And shorebirds on the Fort Erie beaches included 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and 18 LEAST SANDPIPERS. May 17 and 18, a 24 hour Big Day of birding covering the Batavia Waste Water Plant, Iroquois Refuge, Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, the Lake Ontario Plains, lower Niagara River and Niagara Falls, reported 164 species including 23 warbler species. Highlights of the Big Day - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, HORNED GREBE, LESSER SCAUP and BLACK TERN. In the Iroquois Refuge at Swallow Hollow Trail, BROWN CREEPER, CERULEAN WARBLER and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and at Windmill Marsh, a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS and a RED-HEADED WDPKR. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER along the dike west of Meadville Road, and to the east, in the recently drained Cinnamon Marsh, abundant shorebirds included over 500 LEAST SANDPIPERS plus 10 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Waterfowl highlights in the two areas were NORTHERN PINTAIL, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK. In the Lake Ontario Plains, RED-THROATED LOON and a flyover PINE SISKIN at Barker Park. In Somerset, ORCHARD ORIOLE at Hartland and Lower Lake Road, and at Johnson Creek and Townline Roads, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. Unexpected find at Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson - 4 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS plus 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS. BROAD-WINGED HAWKS at two locations. On the lower Niagara River, 4 COMMON GOLDENEYES, and concluding the Big Day at the Three Sisters Island at Niagara Falls, a GLAUCOUS GULL. Other reports this week - LEAST BITTERNS heard in the Iroquois Refuge included one at Kumpf Marsh and 2 or 3 at Ring- neck Marsh by Sour Springs Road. In Buffalo, MERLIN on Woodbridge Avenue and ten warbler species still at Forest Lawn, including widely reported BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. On Grand Island, 50 BARN SWALLOWS nesting under the docks at the Big Six Marina on Whitehaven Road. Five GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS heard in the Town of Royalton on Pearson Road between Carmen and Drum Roads. And, ORCHARD ORIOLE in the Southern Tier, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 31. 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 24 May 2012
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/24/2012 * NYBU1205.24 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- WHIMBREL BRANT WILSON'S PHALAROPE WHITE-R. SANDPIPER WHITE-W. CROSSBILL Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Least Bittern Trumpter Swan Northern Pintail Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Glaucous Gull Black Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Cape May Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Northern Waterthrush Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/24/2012 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, May 24, 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 17 through May 24 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHIMBREL, BRANT, and a Big Day report. May 17, on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario, 2 WHIMBRELS at Morgans Point in Wainfleet. Also on the lakeshore, at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, 4 BRANT at the small island west of Windmill Point Road. A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLE continue at this location. In Fort Erie, At Kraft Road, 4 RED-HEADED WDPKRS., And shorebirds on the Fort Erie beaches included 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 8 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and 18 LEAST SANDPIPERS. May 17 and 18, a 24 hour Big Day of birding covering the Batavia Waste Water Plant, Iroquois Refuge, Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, the Lake Ontario Plains, lower Niagara River and Niagara Falls, reported 164 species including 23 warbler species. Highlights of the Big Day - at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, HORNED GREBE, LESSER SCAUP and BLACK TERN. In the Iroquois Refuge at Swallow Hollow Trail, BROWN CREEPER, CERULEAN WARBLER and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and at Windmill Marsh, a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS and a RED-HEADED WDPKR. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER along the dike west of Meadville Road, and to the east, in the recently drained Cinnamon Marsh, abundant shorebirds included over 500 LEAST SANDPIPERS plus 10 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. Waterfowl highlights in the two areas were NORTHERN PINTAIL, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK and RUDDY DUCK. In the Lake Ontario Plains, RED-THROATED LOON and a flyover PINE SISKIN at Barker Park. In Somerset, ORCHARD ORIOLE at Hartland and Lower Lake Road, and at Johnson Creek and Townline Roads, WILSON'S PHALAROPE and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER. Unexpected find at Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson - 4 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS plus 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS. BROAD-WINGED HAWKS at two locations. On the lower Niagara River, 4 COMMON GOLDENEYES, and concluding the Big Day at the Three Sisters Island at Niagara Falls, a GLAUCOUS GULL. Other reports this week - LEAST BITTERNS heard in the Iroquois Refuge included one at Kumpf Marsh and 2 or 3 at Ring- neck Marsh by Sour Springs Road. In Buffalo, MERLIN on Woodbridge Avenue and ten warbler species still at Forest Lawn, including widely reported BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. On Grand Island, 50 BARN SWALLOWS nesting under the docks at the Big Six Marina on Whitehaven Road. Five GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS heard in the Town of Royalton on Pearson Road between Carmen and Drum Roads. And, ORCHARD ORIOLE in the Southern Tier, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 31. 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/ --
