- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/07/2016 * NYBU1604.07 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
[There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, April 13, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will be a tour of the museum's bird specimen collection.] Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter Red-br. Merganser Bald Eagle Greater Yellowlegs Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Eastern Phoebe Brown Thrasher American Pipit Yellow Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Lapland Longspur - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/07/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 7, 2016 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 March 31 through April 7 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In East Aurora, an apparent YELLOW WARBLER has been at a suet feeder since April 1. PINE WARBLER this week in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. April 7, two arriving CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor's Wright Beach, on Lake Erie. With the snowfall this week, north of the Iroquois Refuge in Shelby, up to 38 breeding plumage LAPLAND LONGSPURS on Barber Road and South Woods Road. Nearby on Podunk Road, a fallout of at least 10 FOX SPARROWS, plus a BROWN THRASHER. BROWN THRASHER was first noted April 1 at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. VESPER SPARROWS at several locations this week - in Chautauqua County at the Dunkirk Airport and in Sheridan with flocks of AMERICAN PIPITS, and four VESPER SPARROWS on Hulbert Road in Wilson. Other recent sparrow reports - FIELD SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW and SWAMP SPARROW. EASTERN PHOEBES widely reported in early spring, including six at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, an EASTERN TOWHEE at a feeder in West Seneca. Back on March 25, two GREAT EGRETS arrived at Motor Island on the upper Niagara River, and March 26, eight GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. April 1, 43 species on Lake Ontario off Route 425 in Wilson, including 4 SURF SCOTERS, BLACK SCOTER, 345 RED-THROATED LOONS, 54 COMMON LOONS, 17 HORNED GREBES, 7 RED-NECKED GREBES, 4 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 141 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and abundant numbers of LONG-TAILED DUCKS and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Inland, single COMMON LOONS on South Park Lake in Buffalo, and at the Van Buren Road pond in Dunkirk. Also this week, a BALD EAGLE at Cazenovia Park in South Buffalo. There will be a BOS meeting this Wednesday, April 13, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will be a tour of the museum's bird specimen collection. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 14. 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/ --
