- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/17/2015 * NYBU1509.17 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Bald Eagle Merlin Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Olive-s. Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/17/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 17, 2015 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. RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were the highlight of reports received September 10 through September 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region. On the Buffalo waterfront, September 14, a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on Lisa Pond at Tifft Nature Preserve. Two RED- NECKED PHALAROPES have been at the Batavia Waste Water Plant this week. Most recent report September 17. The phalaropes were on pond S1, the first pond after the tunnel. The plant is on Industrial Blvd., off Route 33, west of Batavia. Visitors must sign in at the office, and be off the property before the 3 PM gate closing. September 14 at Amherst State Park, OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER, 13 warbler species and a MERLIN. Migrant GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES and SWAINSON'S THRUSHES this week - at a yard pond by the Lake Ontario shore in Wilson, and at the Chautauqua County Canadaway Creek Wildlife Management Area, at Center and Bard Roads in the Town of Arkwright. Shorebirds have thinned out at West Wood Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS and SPOTTED SANDPIPER on September 14. Conditions at the marsh may still attract later migrant shorebirds. Hike to the marsh from the Ditch Road parking lot, on the south side of the Feeder Canal. Other reports this week - in a Hamburg yard, up to 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. And adult BALD EAGLES reported on the Lake Erie shore near the Hamburg Town Park, and over the Town of Eden. There will be a Buffalo Audubon, Iroquois Observation field trip on Saturday, September 19, to view the evening roost of GREAT EGRETS in the refuge. Meet at 5:30 PM at the Cayuga Pool overlook on Lewiston Road. (Call the refuge to register - 585-948-5445 extension 7036). The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 24. 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 Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
