- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/19/2013 * NYBU1309.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
RED PHALAROPE LONG-B. DOWITCHER Great Egret Snow Goose Lesser Scaup Black Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Virginia Rail Sandhill Crane American Golden-Plover L. Black-b. Gull Forster's Tern Red-headed Wdpkr. Swainson's Thrush Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler White-thr. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/19/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 19, 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 September 12 through September 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region. September 19, two shorebird highlights in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. A RED PHALAROPE at Stafford Marsh on Albion Road, and across the road, two LONG-B. DOWITCHERS at the back of Windmill Marsh. Earlier this week, 171 GREAT EGRETS at Stafford Marsh. Also the 19th, at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, 5 SANDHILL CRANES included one juvenile. Back on September 12, an apparent migrant RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, feeding on the ridge above the maintenance dump. Warblers in the cemetery - CAPE MAY WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., plus SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Still on September 12, a total on 9 BLACK VULTURES at two locations in Lewiston. During low water at the Lewiston Reservoir, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and 4 L. BLACK-B. GULLS. And at Fort Niagara State Park, in Porter, 3 FORSTER'S TERNS over Lake Ontario, and in the park, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB. From Wyoming County this week, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK hunting at Plow and Werner Roads, in the higher elevations south- east of the Village of Attica. A single WHITE-THR. SPARROW at this location, too. Arriving LESSER SCAUP at the Batavia Waste Water Plant on the 16th, and first report of SNOW GOOSE, September 18, at Ring-neck Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. Also in the Iroquois Refuge, VIRGINIA RAILS revealed themselves at Cayuga and Mohawk Pools. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 26. 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 including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
