- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/27/2013 * NYBU1306.27 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
LITTLE GULL BLACK VULTURE SANDHILL CRANE D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Tundra Swan American Wigeon Red-br. Merganser Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Upland Sandpiper Caspian Tern Barred Owl Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Acadian Flycatcher Purple Martin Cliff Swallow Common Raven Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Veery Wood Thrush Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Cerulean Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Orchard Oriole Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/27/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 27, 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 June 20 through June 27 from the Niagara Frontier Region include LITTLE GULL, BLACK VULTURE and SANDHILL CRANES. June 20, at the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake Ontario, 2 immature LITTLE GULLS with 106 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Fort Niagara State Park. Up the river at Artpark in Lewiston, a hike along the gorge found 2 BLACK VULTURES among 30 TURKEY VULTURES, plus 3 CLIFF SWALLOWS. SANDHILL CRANE summer records continue - June 21, 3 SANDHILL CRANES over Tonawanda Creek Road in Lockport. In Wyoming County, on the salt brine property where RED- HEADED WDPKRS. were reported nesting last week, a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES and an adult BALD EAGLE. The property is north of West Middlebury Road, west of Skates Hill Road. A productive list from the Onondaga Trial in the Iroquois Refuge this week, highlighted by 2 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS and 2 PINE WARBLERS in the Red Pines along the trail. Also, BROWN CREEPER, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, VEERY, WOOD THRUSH, CEDAR WAXWING, PURPLE FINCH, and six other warbler species - OVENBIRD, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, AMERICAN REDSTART, CERULEAN WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. Another list of warblers from Iroquois and the surrounding area added BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH and MAGNOLIA WARBLER, plus a YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER on Bartel Road near Meadville Road. And, PURPLE MARTIN monitors report 91 nests with 614 hatched young in the refuge areas. The Phillips Creek Breeding Bird Survey in the northern Allegany County Towns of Birdsall and Grove reported 15 COMMON RAVENS, plus GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, WHITE-THR. SPARROW and 13 warbler species including PRAIRIE WARBLER, CANADA WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and PINE WARBLER. From the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, 2 TUNDRA SWANS continue to summer at the Mosaic Ponds north of Rock Point Park in Dunnville. At Rock Point, 1500 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS and 27 CASPIAN TERNS. Also along the Lake Erie shore, AMERICAN WIGEON and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. On the Niagara River at Buffalo, on the reef lighthouse, 372 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 101 nests, and another 200 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS on the breakwalls. 60 CLIFF SWALLOWS have about 100 nests on the Peace Bridge, many overtaken by HOUSE SPARROWS. GREAT EGRETS on the upper Niagara River - 82 at Strawberry Island and Motor Island, and 51 GREAT EGRETS, with a reduced count of 10 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, above the brink of the Canadian Falls. Also this week, at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, 39 species included 2 each of UPLAND SANDPIPER and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. BARRED OWL calling at Hunter's Creek Park in the Erie County Town of Wales. And, COOPER'S HAWK by the parking lot at the Reinstein Preserve in Cheektowaga. The Bird Report will not be updated until Thursday evening, July 11. 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 including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
