- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/23/2012 * NYBU1208.23 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
FRANKLIN'S GULL RED-NECKED PHALAROPE BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER Great Egret Northern Shoveler Long-tailed Duck Common Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Black-bellied Plover Killdeer White-r. Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Herring Gull Common Nighthawk Ruby-t. Hummingbird Eastern Kingbird American Robin Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/23/2012 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, August 23, 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 August 16 through August 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FRANKLIN'S GULL, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVER and GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER. August 17, one day only, a FRANKLIN'S GULL, a juvenile moulting to first winter, with HERRING GULLS, on Lake Ontario at the Village of Wilson pier at Route 425. Multiple reports and counts of RED-NECKED PHALAROPES this week. August 17, a single at the Cement Road pond south of Highway 3 in Port Colborne, Ontario. On the Buffalo waterfront, August 18, three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES at the Bird Island Pier, across the canal from the entrance to LaSalle Park, And, August 21, four RED-NECKED PHALAROPES on Secondary Pond #1 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant. Other shorebird highlights - in Ontario, August 17, near Rock Point Provincial Park, on Wainfleet-Dunnville Townline Road, BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and 65 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. On nearby Poth Road, 372 KILLDEER. At Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, 10 shorebird species included WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, 4 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS and 2 WILSON'S SNIPE, plus 3 NORTHERN SHOVELERS. Fall warbler migration stepped up this week, highlighted by a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER at Amherst State Park on August 18; one of 12 warbler species in the park this week - TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BAY- BREASTED WARBLER, OVENBIRD, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, WILSON'S WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. Warbler highlights at Rock Point Park on the 17th - CAPE MAY WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER and BL. AND W. WARBLER, plus 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and 4 COMMON MERGANSERS on Lake Erie. Just two migrant COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this week - single NIGHTHAWKS over the Towns of Clarence and Tonawanda. The evening of August 22, a record count for the region - four observers tallied 268 GREAT EGRETS roosting at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. Six GREAT EGRETS also at the pond in Sheridan Park in Tonawanda. Other reports this week - OSPREY at Spicer Creek on Grand Island and an out of place OSPREY perched along Harris Hill Road in Clarence. Adult BALD EAGLE at Sunset Bay on Lake Erie in Hanover. In the Southern Tier Town of Ischua, MERLIN and AMERICAN KESTREL alternately chasing each other over a new mown hay field. In Clarence, six EASTERN KINGBIRDS on Clarence Center Road and another six near the Tillman Wildlife Management Area, where the swamp has dried and attracted abundant AMERICAN ROBINS. And in Lewiston, a RUBY- T. HUMMINGBIRD investigating the red stripes of an American flag. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 30. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
