- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/19/2014 * NYBU1406.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SANDHILL CRANE D.-crest. Cormorant Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Virginia Rail Common Tern Black Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Willow Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Yellow-thr. Vireo Chestnut-s. Warbler Cerulean Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Hooded Warbler Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/19/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 19, 2014 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. The highlight of reports received June 12 through June 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region was a pair of SANDHILL CRANES with one young colt, reported June 13 in a field off Albion Road, south of the observation tower in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. June 16, in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a hike along Feeder Road from Route 77 to Klossen Marsh and Meadville Road reported at least 5 singing PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS and 15 calling VIRGINIA RAILS, plus 2 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS and 3 YELLOW-THR. VIREOS. Also, CERULEAN WARBLER nearby on Ditch Road. And a recent report from the Iroquois Refuge - 15 BLACK TERNS at Cayuga Pool and a HOODED WARBLER on Casey Road. June 15, along the Genesee and Wyoming countyline, in the Towns of Bethany and Middlebury, a male ORCHARD ORIOLE on the north side of West Middlebury Road at the salt brine fields. Also - 3 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, 20 BOBOLINKS and 7 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, plus BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, VEERY, WOOD THRUSH, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, OVENBIRD, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, FIELD SPARROW and SAVANNAH SPARROW. On Grand Island, at Buckhorn Island State Park, 30 species included 18 CLIFF SWALLOWS with 19 nests on the north Grand Island bridge, a pair of OSPREYS with 2 nestlings, 52 COMMON TERNS, and at the D.-CREST. CORMORANT colony on the electric towers and weir, 183 adult D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 137 young. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCON chasing a BALD EAGLE near the UB Main Street campus peregrine nest box on Winspear Avenue. A midnight migrant SWAINSON'S THRUSH heard over North Buffalo. Two BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS at Delaware Park Lake. And, by the Lake Ontario shore at Johnson Creek in Orleans County, a pair of RING-NECKED PHEASANTS under a backyard feeder. The Bird Report will be updated one day early, Wednesday evening, June 25. Please call in your sightings by noon Wednesday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
