- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/13/2012 * NYBU1209.13 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
WESTERN KINGBIRD WESTERN SANDPIPER WHIMBREL BLACK VULTURE Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Northern Shoveler Redhead Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Ruddy Turnstone Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Caspian Tern Yellow-b. Flycatcher N. Rough-w. Swallow Winter Wren Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Philadelphia Vireo Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak White-thr. Sparrow Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/13/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 13, 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 September 6 through September 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN KINGBIRD, WESTERN SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL and BLACK VULTURE. September 10, only, in the Lake Ontario Plains, a WESTERN KINGBIRD on Lakeshore Road in the Orleans County Town of Yates, one-half mile west of Marshall Road. Also on the 10th, a WESTERN SANDPIPER at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And a migrant UPLAND SANDPIPER was heard over Buffalo on the 9th. September 8, prior to a passing storm front, 4 WHIMBRELS in flight over the Small Boat Harbor on the Buffalo waterfront. The single WHIMBREL photographed at Dunkirk Harbor last week, was actually one of four WHIMBRELS in the harbor, behind the Chadwick Bay Marina. In the Village of Lewiston, September 9, 3 BLACK VULTURES among a roost of TURKEY VULTURES at Route 18F and Mohawk Street, near the Lewiston Docks. A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE continues at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, still present on the 9th, with RUDDY TURNSTONE, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. Also, numbers of NORTHERN SHOVELERS and RUDDY DUCKS, with abundant SWALLOWS, primarily N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOWS. Warblers this week - a combined list of 17 species at Amherst State Park, plus YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, WINTER WREN, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK and PURPLE FINCH. At Goat Island, in Niagara Falls, New York, twelve warbler species. Also this week, on the Black Rock Canal in Buffalo, 2 REDHEADS, 2 COMMON MERGANSERS, 5 CASPIAN TERNS and 30 BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERONS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 20. 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/

